Lynn Froggett
lynnfroggett.bsky.social
Lynn Froggett
@lynnfroggett.bsky.social

Living on wild beautiful hill; Academic (Emeritus) researching Aesthetics of lived experience; immersive experiences and technologies of ageing. Interests: art, science, politics, psychoanalysis, music, curating nature (gardening), dogs and other animals. .. more

Art 23%
Political science 17%

The Association for Psychosocial Studies has issued a cfp for its 2026 Conference: Trust, Mistrust and Community - London 12-13 June

Submit your abstract and we hope to welcome you to a convivial, thoughtful and enlivening couple of days

www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/conference-2026/

This is a poem that lingers - as does the film. The gentleness belies the horror. I have reviewed the film in the forthcoming issue of New Associations

On a day when Starmer hails Trump as a True Friend of the UK George Monbiot asks in the Guardian: what if we have to defend ourselves against America. Consider these alternative realities and be very afraid

Watch this space - great collection of abstracts submitted programme soon to be released

Thus was a warm and thought provoking discussion that showed how much we need theatre as a public space to help us mourn the world we are losing, but also how theatre itself partakes of the melancholia - perhaps putting its own survival at risk

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The Association for Psychosocial Studies invites you to join us for our online reading group with Prof Fintan Walsh on responses to death and loss in (post)
-Wednesday, February 19
-Performing (Post) Pandemic Grief: Prof Fintan Walsh
Please follow this link:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1187389045...
www.eventbrite.co.uk

If there should be any illusion that Trump2 can be
Contained or ‘normalised’ read Eliot Weinberger’s inventory of the future president’s appointees in December’s LRB.
example (more like this)
The future administrator of the environmental protection agency opposes clean air and water legislation…

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Wishing you all a happy New Year for 2025! We look forward to welcoming old and new members to our conference in June!

Me too please

Small life-saving victory for digital citizen protest: council reverses economising decision to stop gritting our steep, winding, treacherous roads after slithering cars, blockages, Storm Bert. Power to the google group!

Brilliant Candy - can’t think of any better recipient. Congrats!
Hi everyone,

We're very excited to announce our upcoming conference in June and look forward to seeing all those who would be interested in joining us!

Please visit our website to find out more:
www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/conference-2...

We'd love to see you there 😀
Conference 2025
Hope and Despair: Crisis and Opportunity Annual Conference of the Association for Psychosocial Studies (APS)9-10 June 2025, St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London TW1 4SX Conference enquirie…
www.psychosocial-studies-association.org

I’m in too

If ever this were a timely theme….

Utterly delighted with this appointment and looking forward to more events like Feeling Soundscapes which Noreen Giffney organised so brilliantly. Also to meeting colleagues at Ulster University

Uk

Guy Fawkes

You have. Thanks. Our family direct descendents of GF. My favourite fact about us!

Hello Bluesky. Was a very disappointing tweeter (average 2 per year), and don’t remember ever posting on X. Let’s see if disgust with Musk prods me to do better here

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CfP Hope and Despair: Crisis and Opportunity
Annual Conference of the Association for Psychosocial Studies (APS) - Join us:
9-10 June 2025, St Mary’s University, London
www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/conference-2...
Conference 2025
Hope and Despair: Crisis and Opportunity Annual Conference of the Association for Psychosocial Studies (APS)9-10 June 2025, St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London TW1 4SX Conference enquirie…
www.psychosocial-studies-association.org