The 2022 Annual Sowerby Lecture will be given on Thursday the 3^rd of November, 6pm by Professor Hanna Pickard (Johns Hopkins University) on the Puzzle of Addiction. The lecture will be on the 8^th Floor of Bush House and will be followed by a drinks reception. Find out more and register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/438551067047.

The Annual Lecture is preceded by a two-day workshop focusing on the Puzzle of Addiction and other aspects of Hanna Pickard’s work, with speakers including Richard Holton, Owen Flanagan, and Ellen Fridland. See the full schedule below, or find out more and register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/427893179017

Wednesday 2nd November: 

10:00 – 10:30  Coffee (Anatomy Museum, KCL Strand Building) 

10:30 – 10:40  Introduction and Welcomes 

10:40 – 11:40  Doug McConnell “The Role of Psychiatry in Patient Moral Development” 

11:40 – 11:50  Break 

11:50 – 12:50  Sanja Dembic “When does addiction exempt?” 

12:50 – 13:50  Lunch (Anatomy Museum, KCL Strand Building)

13:50 – 14:50  Sahanika Ratnayake “Normativity and Psychotherapy” 

14:50 – 15:20  Coffee Break (Anatomy Museum, KCL Strand Building) 

15:20 – 16:20  Adi Goldiner “The addiction outlier in disability antidiscrimination law” 

16:20 – 16:30  Break 

16:30 – 17:30  Owen Flanagan “HEAVY DRINKING” 

Drinks and workshop dinner. 

Thursday 3rd November: 

9:30 – 10:00  Coffee (Anatomy Museum, KCL Strand Building) 

10:00 – 11:00  David Krausz “Unconscious responsibility: On the gap between blame and responsibility in psychoanalysis and in Talmudic Law” 

11:00 – 11:20  Break

11:20 – 12:20  Ellen Fridland “A relational theory of emotion” 

12:20 – 13:20  Lunch (Anatomy Museum, KCL Strand Building) 

13:20 – 14:20  Derek Braverman “Choice or Disease: Addiction’s False Dichotomy”

14:20 – 14:30  Break 

14:30 – 15:30  Anke Snoek (TBC) 

15:30 – 16:00  Coffee Break (Anatomy Museum, KCL Strand Building) 

16:00 – 17:00  Richard Holton (TBC) 

18:00  – 19.30  Annual Peter Sowerby Lecture, Hanna Pickard (please register separately for the annual lecture: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/438551067047 )

19:30-20:30 Drinks Reception (8^th Floor, Bush House)