Event | Dissolve Into: Creative Methodologies in Post-trauma

Event | Dissolve Into: Creative Methodologies in Post-trauma
Date: 23 May 2025
Time: 14:00-17:00
Location: University of Amsterdam, Roetersijsland (Room: REC A 1.04)
Organizers: Dr. Elan Gamaker (Kingston University London) and Dr. Catherine Lord (University of Amsterdam)
Contact & registration: c.m.lord@uva.nl

An ASCA interdisciplinary workshop that explores creative methodologies in post-trauma, with a particular focus on eco-psychoanalysis and screenwriting.

This one-off workshop takes the form of a seminar, followed by practical and creative application with participants, who are encouraged to engage actively with the critical approaches discussed here, and also as the subject of Dr. Gamaker’s book chapter for an upcoming publication called Critical Filmmaking (Intellect Books). While Elan Gamaker will chair the workshop within the scope of screenwriting as a post-traumatic methodology, Catherine Lord will engage students with the theme of ecological mourning, drawing psychoanalysis into dialogue with Joanna Macy’s ‘active hope’ work.

Target Group: ASCA Staff, PhD, and MA students. NICA MA students are also invited.

Bios:

Dr. Elan Gamaker is a screenwriter and director whose work has been selected for several international programmes and markets, including Berlinale Co-Production Market, IFFR Cinemart and Produire au Sud (Nantes). He is an attendee of both the Writers’ and Directors’ Labs of Amsterdam-based Binger Filmlab, and has directed two features. An ASCA alumnus, he is currently Course Leader of BA Filmmaking at Kingston University, London, and Founding Director of the London-based screenwriting mentorship programme Dissolve Into.

https://www.kingston.ac.uk/about/staff/dr-elan-gamaker

Dr. Catherine Lord is a writer, scholar and lecturer in literary and media studies, tenured at the department of Literature and Cultural Analysis, as well as Media Studies, at the University of Amsterdam. She specialises in environmental humanities, literature and cinema; she studies the overlaps between psychoanalysis, feminism and ecological studies. Her recent publications have appeared in Comparative American Studies, Green Letters and two Palgrave collections of essays. Currently, she is working on a book project about environmental mourning. She is also an artist, and at present, is developing practice-based projects which explore the intersection between psychoanalytic and ecological themes.

https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/l/o/c.m.lord/c.m.lord.html

Contact:

To attend the workshop, please email Dr. Catherine Lord at c.m.lord@uva.nl, and you will receive one 6000-word book chapter (provided by Dr. Gamaker) and one essay on environmental mourning (3000 words provided by Dr. Lord).