History as a Psychological Resource? Workshop and Roundtable
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Psychological knowledge today permeates everyday life: it shapes how we think about ourselves, our relationships, crises, and difficult life situations. Yet this was not always the case. Forms of self-understanding have their own histories.
This workshop explores how psychological knowledge took shape in the modern period, and how history can help us better understand the present. It also asks how historical reflection may contribute to the recognition of psychological resources. Bringing together film, digital history, and the teaching of the history of the psy-sciences, the event examines how non-conventional forms of education and public engagement can make this history accessible and meaningful to students and wider audiences.
Programme
17:00–17:05 – Opening remarks
17:05–17:25 – Screening of The Nervous State
17:25–17:45 – Talk by Julie Gottlieb on History from Within and the use of film
17:45–18:05 – Talk by Ágnes Szokolszky on the digital museum of the history of psychology
18:05–18:45 – Roundtable discussion with Julie Gottlieb, Ágnes Szokolszky, and Janka Kovács
18:45–19:00 – Audience questions
About the participants:
Julie V. Gottlieb is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield. Her forthcoming book, The Nervous State: F. L. Lucas and the Internalization of Crisis in Britain, 1938, examines how F. L. Lucas’s 1938 journal of political crisis and private breakdown became the basis for a creative collaboration between history, theatre, and public engagement.
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Ágnes Szokolszky is Professor Emerita at the University of Szeged and the founder-editor of the Digital Museum and Archive of the History of Hungarian Psychology. The project seeks to make the major figures, works, and themes of Hungarian psychology accessible in a systematic form, while also functioning as an open collective initiative involving students and colleagues.
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Janka Kovács is a research fellow at the Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities, whose work focuses on the early institutionalisation of psychiatry and the transfer of psychiatric knowledge. Her recent monograph, A lélek tudománya: Diszciplinarizálódás, medikalizáció és tudásterjesztés Magyarországon, 1770–1830, explores the formation and dissemination of psy-knowledge in Hungary.
Date: Thursday, 18 June 2026, 17:00–19:00
Venue: ELTE PPK, Faculty of Education and Psychology, 1064 Budapest, Izabella utca 46. Room: P3
This workshop explores how psychological knowledge took shape in the modern period, and how history can help us better understand the present. It also asks how historical reflection may contribute to the recognition of psychological resources. Bringing together film, digital history, and the teaching of the history of the psy-sciences, the event examines how non-conventional forms of education and public engagement can make this history accessible and meaningful to students and wider audiences.
Programme
17:00–17:05 – Opening remarks
17:05–17:25 – Screening of The Nervous State
17:25–17:45 – Talk by Julie Gottlieb on History from Within and the use of film
17:45–18:05 – Talk by Ágnes Szokolszky on the digital museum of the history of psychology
18:05–18:45 – Roundtable discussion with Julie Gottlieb, Ágnes Szokolszky, and Janka Kovács
18:45–19:00 – Audience questions
About the participants:
Julie V. Gottlieb is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield. Her forthcoming book, The Nervous State: F. L. Lucas and the Internalization of Crisis in Britain, 1938, examines how F. L. Lucas’s 1938 journal of political crisis and private breakdown became the basis for a creative collaboration between history, theatre, and public engagement.
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Ágnes Szokolszky is Professor Emerita at the University of Szeged and the founder-editor of the Digital Museum and Archive of the History of Hungarian Psychology. The project seeks to make the major figures, works, and themes of Hungarian psychology accessible in a systematic form, while also functioning as an open collective initiative involving students and colleagues.
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Janka Kovács is a research fellow at the Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities, whose work focuses on the early institutionalisation of psychiatry and the transfer of psychiatric knowledge. Her recent monograph, A lélek tudománya: Diszciplinarizálódás, medikalizáció és tudásterjesztés Magyarországon, 1770–1830, explores the formation and dissemination of psy-knowledge in Hungary.
Date: Thursday, 18 June 2026, 17:00–19:00
Venue: ELTE PPK, Faculty of Education and Psychology, 1064 Budapest, Izabella utca 46. Room: P3
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Where is it happening?
Izabella utca 46, Budapest 1064, Magyarország P/3, Izabella utca 46, Budapest 1064, Magyarország, Budapest, Hungary
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