Study of George Dyer, 1971 (detail) © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved. DACS 2023

In collaboration with The Estate of Francis Bacon, the CPA are delighted to present Bacon, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, a conference exploring new ways of understanding Francis Bacon's work and its implications for psychoanalysis and philosophy. See below for a list of speakers. Tickets are free but ATTENDEES MUST REGISTER via Eventbrite at the link below. Talks will be in the Council Room, Strand Campus.

• Alenka Zupančič (Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts/European Graduate School)

• Howard Caygill (Kingston)

• Dany Nobus (Brunel)

• Sacha Golob (KCL)

• Ben Ware (KCL)

• Rohit Goel (BICAR)

• Darren Ambrose (Independent scholar and artist)

Schedule

09:30 - 09:45 Welcome - Ben Ware (KCL)

09:45 - 10:45 Francis Bacon’s Eyes: Blindness, Portraiture, and the Derangement of the Sense - Dany Nobus (Brunel) & Sacha Golob (KCL, Chair)

10:45 - 11:45 Bacon's Corpus & Darren Ambrose (Independent Scholar and Artist) & Ben Ware (KCL, Chair)

11:45 - 12:15 Refreshments

12:15 - 13:15 Francis Bacon: Decadent? - Sacha Golob (KCL) & Vanessa Brassey (KCL, Chair)

13:15 - 14:15 Lunch

14:15 - 15:15 Bacon's Cynegetic Vision - Howard Caygill (Kingston)& Colette Olive (KCL, Chair)

15:30 - 16:30

Bacon: Art, Movement, Thought - Rohit Goel - Sacha Golob (KCL, Chair)

(This talk will be given by video link)

16:30 - 17:00 Refreshments

17:00 - 18:00 On Series and Doubles - Alenka Zupančič (Slovene Academy of Sciences) & Ben Ware (KCL, Chair)

18:15 - 19:15 Drinks Reception