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Invited Lectures & Seminars

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  1. De Vos, Jan. (2019),  Book Presentation “La psicologización y sus vicisitudes. Bogotá, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia. Monday 29, April 2019.
  2. De Vos, Jan. (2019), “La psicología en la psicología social? Una súplica para una “no-psicología”. Keynote XII SEMINARIO INTERNACIONAL DE PSICOLOGÍA SOCIAL - Subjetividades, Nuevas tecnologías y Globalización, UNIVERSIDAD PONTIFICIA BOLIVARIANA, UNIVERSIDAD COOPERATIVA DE COLOMBIA, ESCUELA DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES – FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA. Friday 26 of April 2019
  3. De Vos, Jan. (2019), “La psicologización y sus vicisitudes: la cultura terapéutica digital.”. Keynote XII SEMINARIO INTERNACIONAL DE PSICOLOGÍA SOCIAL - Subjetividades, Nuevas tecnologías y Globalización, UNIVERSIDAD PONTIFICIA BOLIVARIANA, UNIVERSIDAD COOPERATIVA DE COLOMBIA, ESCUELA DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES – FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA. Saturday 27 of April 2019.
  4. De Vos, Jan. (2019), Mesa-Debate "Psicologización/Socialización en los entornos digitales". [Rondetafel/debat: “Psychologisering/socialisering en de digitale omgevingen”] Martes 5 Marzo en la Facultad de Ciencías Políticas y Sociología @unicomplutense, Madrid, Spanje
  5. De Vos, Jan. (2018), Digitalizing childhood: leading the child via its synapses to a psychologized virtuality. The Annual Tony Watkins Lecture May 3, 2018, CIRCL Centre , Reading University, UK
  6. De Vos, Jan. (2018), Which subject for the digital? A critique of digitalization’s roots in (neuro)psychologization. March 26, 2018/ Keynote at the 5th Communication Days, March 26-28, 2018 at Uskudar University, Istanbul, Turkey.
  7. De Vos, Jan. (2018), “Metamorphosizing education: from the neuropsychological to the digital paradigm.” Talk at Institute of Social Sciences, Bogazici University, April 27, 2018. Istanbul, Turkey
  8. De Vos, Jan. (2018), Interpassivity in the Digital sphere. Fake subjectivities from (neuro)psychologization to digitalization. April 18, 2018. Contribution to Digital Studies Network – Real Smart Cities (RealSmS) doctoral training programme. Durham University Law School, Palatine Centre, April 17-19, 2018. UK.
  9. De Vos, Jan. (2018), Rethinking Europe after the neuro-turn. DSh Humanities and Law: Critical perspectives on Identity in the European Framework. VUB-UGENT, January 27, 2018.
  10. De Vos, Jan. (2017), Digital Doomsday: A perspective from the pathology called Europe. 22 August, 2017, Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
  11. De Vos, Jan. (2017), La digitalización de la (inter)subjetividad. 30 May 2017, Cibersomosaguas,  Departamento de Sociología. Complutense University, Madrid, Spain.
  12. De Vos, Jan. (2017), Introduction to the public lecture of Slavoj Žižek in Ghent: “Understanding Žižek through Lacan”. 24 May 2017, Vooruit/UGent, BE.
  13. De Vos, Jan. (2017), Reading Seminar: “The Political Brain: The Brain as a Political Invention”. 6 April 2017,Department of Rhetoric and the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society, UC Berkeley, USA.
  14. De Vos, Jan. (2017), "Digitizing Intersubjectivity: A Critical Reading of Both Turing and Wiener’s Freudian Inspirations", 5 April 2017 STS/ISS Event, UC Davis, USA.
  15. De Vos, Jan. (2017), “Digital Doomsday: A Perspective from the Pathology Called Europe”, 4 April 2017, HTNM Lecture, Berkeley Center for New Media, UC Berkeley, USA.
  16. De Vos, Jan. (2017), Conferencia magistral: “No hay futuro sin crítica de la psicología. Una interrogación política del marxismo al psicoanálisis” Jueves 30 de marzo 2017 (13 a 15 horas). La Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (UMSNH) a través del Cuerpo Académico de Estudios sobre Teoría y Clínica Psicoanalítica. Mexico.
  17. De Vos, Jan. (2017), Seminario: “Desde la psicologización y la neurologización hasta la digitalización: una vista por atrás.” Lunes 27, martes 28 y miércoles 29 de marzo 2017 (de 13 a 15 horas). La Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (UMSNH) a través del Cuerpo Académico de Estudios sobre Teoría y Clínica Psicoanalítica. Mexico.
  18. De Vos, Jan. (2017), "Digitalizing education. From psychologization & neurologization to digitalisation… and back" ,  International  Research Seminar 'Making School in the age of the screen", LUCA School of Arts, Ghent, January 20 & 21, 2017.
  19. De Vos, Jan. (2016). “The digitalisation of (inter)subjectivity and its (dis)continuity with psychologisation/neurologisation” Seminar at the School of Human and Community Development and School of Social Sciences, September 8, 2016, WITS University Johannesburg, South Africa.
  20. De Vos, Jan. (2016). Response to the Professional Inauguration of Prof. Brendon Barnes, Department of Psychology, September 7, 2016, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
  21. De Vos, Jan. (2016). “Neuro-education: a bridge spanning two problematic banks.” Psychology Seminar Series, Faculty of Humanities, September 7, 2016, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. 
  22. De Vos, Jan. (2016). “What psychologization is (and what it is not). From psychologists involved in torture to psychologists involved in Humanitarian Aid”, Talk at the Social Change Research Lab, September 6, 2016, University of South Africa (Unisa), Johannesburg, South Africa. 
  23. De Vos, Jan. (2016). Participation NERRI Expert Workshop on societal and philosophical aspects of Neuro-enhancement, February 2, 2016, in Nijmegen (the Netherlands).
  24. De Vos, Jan. (2015). “Psychologisering, neurologisering en digitalisering. Het einde van het subject zoals we dat kenden?” Contribution to symposium “Crisis en kritiek”. Organized by Psychiatrie en Filosofie, 06/11/2015, Utrecht, The Netherlands, November 6, 2015.
  25. De Vos, Jan. (2014). “How to be critical of neuro-education?” Seminar at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK, December 11, 2014.
  26. De Vos, Jan. (2014). "Mother Brain. The brain as the simulacrum of nature", Seminar at Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media, Reading University, UK, December 10, 2014.
  27. De Vos, Jan. (2014). “Neuropower, (para)governmental campaigns related to the brain and mental health in Flanders” International Seminar: Psychological resilience. Governing the brain, mind and behaviour, Birmingham, UK, 24-25 June 2014.
  28. De Vos, Jan. (2014). “Brain Imaging and Its Discontents: How Can Psychoanalysis Save us” Talk at the Psychoanalytic Institute Of Northern California, USA, May 14, 2014.
  29. De Vos, Jan. (2014). "Which materialism? Questioning the matrix of Psychology, Neurology, Psychoanalysis & Ideology Critique” Talk at ‘Freudian Sips’: Coffee and Psychoanalytic Research Across the Disciplines event, UC Davis, CA, USA, May 07, 2014.
  30. De Vos, Jan. (2014). "The Iconographic Brain Talk at the Program in Science and Technology Studies, UC Davis, CA, USA, May 06, 2014.
  31. De Vos, Jan. (2014). "The history and genealogy of psychology(zation). The curious obedience-experiment of Stanley Milgram". Talk at the Psychology Dept. of Chico State University, CA, USA, May 01, 2014.
  32. De Vos, Jan. (2014). “The Neurosciences and Critique”, Talk at The Annual Philosophy Lecture Series at Chico State University, CA, USA, April 30, 2014.
  33. De Vos, Jan. (2013). “Psychologisering in tijden van Neurologisering” , PsycEvent, Thomas More Hogeschool, Antwerpen, Belgium, March 23, 2013.
  34. De Vos, Jan. (2013). Response to Marc De Kesel’s lecture Neuroscience as Ideology Critique, Lecture Series Critical Neuroscience, Ghent University, Belgium, March 7, 2013.
  35. De Vos, Jan. (2012). “From psychologisation to neurologisation: old wine in new skins? The case of neuro-education”, Seminar at the Education, Culture and Society Research Group, KULeuven, Belgium, October 26, 2012.
  36. De Vos, Jan. (2012). “Neuropolitics and cosmopolitanism” - Rethinking Europa, A Workshop on Political Philosophy “Europe, between Kantian cosmopolitanism and crisis of civilization”, ULB, Brussel, Belgium, October 11, 2012.
  37. De Vos, Jan. (2012). “Psychologisation in times of Globalisation – Book presentation” Invitation on the occasion of the 2nd Marxism and Psychology Conference. Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán, México. August 9-11, 2012.
  38. De Vos, Jan. (2012). “Psychologisation in times of Globalisation – Book presentation” Invitation on the occasion of the RIHSC Annual Conference, Manchester Metropolian University, UK, July 2 -3, 2012.
  39. De Vos, Jan. (2011). “Between the skin and the Flesh. The Modern subject and its materiality”: Symposium: Die Ästhetik des Fleisches. Vom Kannibalismus zum Inkarnat, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart, Germany, November 24-26, 2011.
  40. De Vos, Jan. (2011). “Kan de psychoanalyse de neuro-wetenschappen redden van de psychologisering? Een politiek- filosofische benadering van het materialisme van de psychoanalyse” Studiedag Psychoanalyse & Filosofie: face à face” Idesça, Ghent, Belgium, November 23, 2011.
  41. De Vos, Jan. (2011). “Psychologisation in times of Globalisation”: Seminar at the Department Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting" Ghent University, Belgium, May 25, 2011.
  42. De Vos, Jan. (2010). “The Culture of Narcissism Revisited: A Critique of Psychological Politics and Its Limits” Symposium ‘The Freudian Left Reconsidered’, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands, October 7-9, 2010.
  43. De Vos, Jan. (2008). “Psychologization from Milgram to Zimbardo: from Acting Out to “Passage À L’acte”? Seminar at: Research Institute for Health and Social Change. Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, December 3, 2008.
  44. De Vos, Jan. (2008). Response to Lecture by Yannis Stavrakakis on The Consumerist Politics of Jouissance. Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands, October 3, 2008

International Conferences

  1. De Vos, Jan. (2018). Critical-Emancipatory Education in Times of Digitalisation. Digital Literacy Revisited and Beyond. A research project proposal under construction. Presented at: Workshop II: Health and Wellbeing in Urban Environments? U!REKA Conference – Frankfurt, 26-28 November 2018, Germany
  2. De Vos, Jan. (2018). “Interpassivity going digital. Or, will object a be digitalized?” Lacan Ecrits Conference, Ghent University, Belgium, September 22-23, 2018.
  3. De Vos, Jan. (2015). “Is digitalization the end of medicalization as the subject knows it?” 29th European Conference on philosophy of medicine and health care, Ghent, Belgium, August 19-22, 2015.
  4. De Vos, Jan. (2015). “Is the digitization the end of (neuro)psychologisation? A question of knowledge and resistance.” 16th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology, Coventry, UK, June 16-30, 2015.
  5. De Vos, Jan. (2015). “What is Critique in the Era of the Neurosciences?” International Symposium: (Neuro)psychoanalysis, its critique, its critics. Ghent, Belgium, June 24,2015
  6. De Vos, Jan. (2014). “Neuro-self-help: a question of knowledge, subjectivity, power and materialism” International Workshop and Conference “Brains, Maps, Rhythms: Knowledge and Experience in Biopolitical Orders” Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, 16–18 April 2014
  7. De Vos, Jan. (2013). “Transgressing the transcendental”. 23rd World Congress of Philosophy. Philosophy as inquiry and way of Life, Athens, Greece, 4-10 August 2013.
  8. De Vos, Jan. (2013).“Democratic agency in times of neurologisation. A critical reading of “neuropolitics”. International Conference Who is the Democratic Agent, Ghent University, Belgium, March 1-2, 2013.
  9. De Vos, Jan. (2013). “Deconstructing neuropsychopathology in education” International Conference Critical Social Psychology: Discourse, Materiality and Politics. Barcelona, Spain, February 6-8, 2013.
  10. De Vos, Jan. (2012). “The neurological turn as it is haunted by psychological discourse and political imagery. An attempt to a parallax answer from psychoanalysis and Marxist theory.” 2nd Marxism and Psychology Conference. Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán, México. August 9-11, 2012.
  11. De Vos, Jan. (2012). “Psychologization and neurologization. Interactive metal fatigue on the couch of psychoanalysis? Interactive metal fatigue conference. Erasmus University, De Machinist, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. June, 6-8, 2012.
  12. De Vos, Jan. (2011). “The Political and Psychological Imagery in Benjamin Libet’s “Veto-Right” of the Conscious - A Political-Philosophical Analysis” CASYS’11, 10th International Conference on  Computing Anticipatory Systems, Liège, Belgium, August 8-13, 2011
  13. De Vos, Jan. (2011). “Questioning the neurological turn. A plea for a non-psychology” 14th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology 2011 in Thessaloniki, Greece, 27 June – 1 July.
  14. De Vos, Jan. (2010). “Psycho-biopolitics: Psychologization in Times of Psychologization” Conference: Marxism and Psychology Conference Organizing Committee, - University of Prince Edward Island (Charlottetown) Canada, 5 – 7 August, 2010.
  15. De Vos, Jan. (2010). “Psychologisation in times of Globalisation The case of psycho-social humantiarian aid” Conference:The Third International Global Ethics Association (IGEA) University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol BS16 1QY, 30 June -2  July 2010.
  16. De Vos, Jan. (2008). “La Mettrie’s Man a Machine as the obscene ghost haunting the psy-sciences”. Subjectivity - International Conference in Critical psychology, Cultural Studies and Social Theory. Cardiff School of Social Sciences. 27th - 29th June 2008
  17. De Vos, Jan. (2008). “30 years of Christopher Lasch’s ‘The culture of narcissism’. Reflexivity and contemporary symptomatology, a critical, historical and political-philosophical approach.” Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society - History and Philosophy Section. University of Oxford. UK. 25-27 March 2008
  18. De Vos, Jan. (2008). “The Return of the Real Man. Resisting Academisation? International Conference: DPR7 Cultures in Resistance. The 7th Conference of the Discourse, Power, Resistance Series. Manchester Metropolitan University , UK. 18– 20 March 2008.

Other presentations

  1. De Vos, Jan. (2016). Participation at the event “Dag van de Filosofie”, debate “Grenzen aan de zelfbeleving”, with Yves Petry and Peter Aers, Ghent, April 9; 2016.
  2. De Vos, Jan. (2015). "Digitalisering & Big Data: het einde van de (neuro)psychologisering? Een kwestie van kennis en vrijheid" Herfstseminarie Rothbard Instituut: Verzoenbare vrijheidsvisies?", Ghent, Belgium, November 14, 2015.
  3. De Vos, Jan. (2014-2015). “Kopstukken Filosofie -Slavoj Žižek”, Presentation for Masereelfonds, Antwerpen September 29, 2014; Gent January, 29,  2015; Brugge March 24, 2015.
  4. De Vos, Jan. (2013). “Psychologisering in tijden van Globalisering” , Vrij-Spraak, Vormingplus, Kortrijk, Belgium, January 23, 2013.