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 2006    EVENTS  PROGRAMME
150TH   ANNIVERSARY OF FREUD’S BIRTH
20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE FREUD MUSEUM LONDON
January 27 (eve), 
Film and discussion: Secrets of a soul by Pabst 
(Screening at Tate Modern.)

January 28 and 29
Conference: Freud Yesterday, Freud Today
Major conference on anthropology, clinical psychoanalysis, literature and art, politics, cultural history, biography. 
(At University of Westminster: organized together with Archives of  the British Psychoanalytical Society).

January to April 30, 2006
Exhibition: From Nerves to Mind
On Freud's scientific origins, exhibiting for the first time his earliest anatomical drawings, together with books, prints and antiquities from his collection.

May 2 
Public lecture series to celebrate Freud's 150th & the Freud Museum's 20th.
Prof. Dennis Klein (USA): Freud & Judaism: Some observations on denial, distortion and illumination 

May 6
Celebration of 150th anniversary of Freud’s birth 6 May 1856.
Private View of exhibition: Freud’s Sculpture: a view from the desk.
 

May 7 – July 9
Exhibition: Freud’s Sculpture: a view from the desk
Curated by Jon Wood.
(With Henry Moore Institute)

May 8,9,14,15
Song Recital: Dreamlives
Songs by contemporaries of Freud, performed by Julia Sporsén (soprano), Sergey Rybin (piano), directed by Sebastian Harcombe. 
(With Austrian Cultural Forum & Jewish Music Institute: at New End Theatre, Hampstead.)

May 9 
Public lecture series to celebrate Freud's 150th & the Freud Museum's 20th.
Frank Scherer (Canada): Freud’s ‘Via Regia’: An East-West Journey into the Early History of Psychoanalysis 

May 24 – July 9
Exhibition: The Haunted House: Art and the uncanny. 
Installation by Laurie Lipton.

May 20
Conference: Therapeutic Training after Freud 
 Speakers: Elisabeth Roudinesco, Jürgen Hardt, David Tuckett and Darian Leader. Evening talk by Elisabeth Roudinesco.
(With Roehampton University, Institute of Therapeutic Education.)
 

May 23 
Public lecture series to celebrate Freud's 150th & the Freud Museum's 20th. Janine Burke (Australia): A Passion for Possession: Freud the Art Collector. 

May 30
Talk: The Haunted House Theme
Film clips + talk by Barry Curtiss. 

June 10-11
Open Garden Squares Weekend 2006 (London Parks & Gardens Trust) 
A stroll through Freud’s garden for participants in this London-wide event.

June 20
Talk & Discussion Outside/In: Architecture,  psychoanalysis and spaces inbetween.
Steve Pile, Sharon Kivland, Lorens Holm and Faye Carey. 
(Part of Architecture Week: at Anna Freud Centre)

June 24
Conference: Psychoanalysis and Midwifery Revisited.
Speakers: Mavis Kirkham, Joan Raphael-Leff, Jane Bloom, Jennifer Johns.

July 14
Talk: Connecting Conversations
Novelist Gillian Slovo in discussion with  poet and psychoanalyst Valerie Sinason. 
(With The Rowan Arts Project, London Metropolition University & The Institute of Psychoanalysis.)

July 14 – August 20
Exhibition: On the Couch: Psychoanalysis in Cartoons 
Curated by Michael Freund.
(With the Austrian Cultural Institutes, London & New York)

September 13 - October 22 
Exhibition: Relative Relations 
Jane McAdam Freud,  Freud Museum artist-in-residence 2006. An artist’s response to Freud’s collection. 

September 16
Freud’s 150th Anniversary Concert
Allegri String Quartet playing Brahms, Berg & Haydn 
(At St John’s Church, Hampstead)

October 25 – January 7, 2007 
Exhibition: Freud’s Sculpture: a view from the desk
Curated by Jon Wood & Michael Molnar

November 8 - January 7, 2007
Exhibition: Polymorphous Perverse
Tim Noble & Sue Webster: curated by James Putnam

November 17
Public lecture series to celebrate Freud's 150th & the Freud Museum's 20th. Christopher Frayling: Freud’s Nightmare.
 

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