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Melissa Dunlop, PhD

@melissadunlop.bsky.social
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Melissa Dunlop, PhD @melissadunlop.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Our next CANI-NET Open Space event is on 1st December, and features new work by Donata Puntil, Jane Speedy and me, exploring the relation between posthumanist and psychoanalytic thinking in the context of psychotherapeutic practice. Full details can be found here: cani-net.com/events/34/
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Event: Open Space - December 2025: Two cats, a teacup and a pink water bottle: collaboratively writing our posthuman and psychoanalytic relations
Two cats, a teacup and a pink water bottle: collaboratively writing our posthuman and psychoanalytic relations. Melissa Dunlop, Donata Puntil and Jane Speedy The three of us recently collaborated to w...
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Melissa Dunlop, PhD @melissadunlop.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Today CANI-NET returns, with our AGM and to plan our Open Space events for the coming year. If you would like to learn more about collaborative, artful or narrative research, or to share your work in a supportive environment you are welcome, just message me for the link. #www.cani-net.com #Cani-net
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Melissa Dunlop, PhD @melissadunlop.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
The next OpenSpace session of the Collaborative Artful Narrative Inquiry Network takes place on Monday 12th May and features the work of @goyawilson.bsky.social. Contact me to attend (no membership is necessary to join our online Open Spaces) cani-net.com/events/30
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Event: Oepn Space - May 2025: Troubling Testimonio: Collective memory-work in post-war Peru
Troubling Testimonio: Collective memory-work in post-war Peru Goya Wilson Vásquez Join us for a talk about Goya's recently published book based on her doctoral research Learning through Collective Mem...
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Melissa Dunlop, PhD @melissadunlop.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I love this visual expression of my town of origin. The disassemblage of elements captures what is fleeting and ineffable, abstraction enhancing coherence, enabling sensemaking with a fuller feeling of the real. #psychotherapy #integration #art
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Melissa Dunlop, PhD @melissadunlop.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
CANI-Net's is a network of inquirers using collaborative, artful and narrative approaches. Our next Open Space session is on Monday 3rd March at 5.30-7.00pm UTC, and features Tami Spry To join us, email or message me for the Zoom link. cani-net.com/events/28
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Event: Open Space - March 2025: Tami Spry - Natureculture: writing our way into eco-kinship with nature
Dr. Tami Spry is an author, speaker, and communication specialist in developing our relationship with nature through nature/culture writing, speaking and advocacy. She has offered performances and wor...
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Melissa Dunlop, PhD @melissadunlop.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
CANI-Net's is a network of inquirers using collaborative, artful and narrative approaches. Our next Open Space session is on Monday 3rd March at 5.30-7.00pm UTC, and features Tami Spry To join us, email or message me for the Zoom link. cani-net.com/events/28
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Event: Open Space - March 2025: Tami Spry - Natureculture: writing our way into eco-kinship with nature
Dr. Tami Spry is an author, speaker, and communication specialist in developing our relationship with nature through nature/culture writing, speaking and advocacy. She has offered performances and wor...
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Melissa Dunlop, PhD @melissadunlop.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Cani-net offers regular Open Space sessions for people doing creative, collaborative & narrative research. Our next meeting is on Thursday 6th February 9.00-10.30am UTC and will be led by Bronwyn Davies and Jane Speedy. cani-net.com/events/27/ All welcome. To join us, message me for the zoom link.
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Event: Open Space February 2025: The Arts of living in a more-than-human world
This project goes way back. It includes friendship, scholarship, academic resilience and longevity, a shared passion for finding ways of thinking with/ communicating and applying new materialist /post...
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Melissa Dunlop, PhD @melissadunlop.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
#ECQI 2025 is a cornucopia of creative inquiry, meetings of bodyminds breathing the nip in Edinburgh's air. Tomorrow I present a collaboration called The Dream Society, bringing the Social Dreaming Matrix from psychoanalysis into relation with the postqualitative practice of collaborative writing ♥️
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Jacob Johanssen @jacobjohanssen.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
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...
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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…
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Melissa Dunlop, PhD @melissadunlop.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Dublin in midwinter repose
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Melissa Dunlop, PhD @melissadunlop.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Sending wishes
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Melissa Dunlop, PhD @melissadunlop.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Fresh out today, a collaborative paper about the regenerative potentials of collaboration journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Regeneration: A Collaborative Writing, Making, and Moving Inquiry - Melissa Dunlop, Alys Mendus, Mark Price, Karen Abadie, Laurinda Brown, Carol Laidler, Marian Liebmann, Marina Malthouse, Grace Mendu...
Nine members of the Collaborative Artful Narrative Inquiry network (CANI-net) gathered to explore a regenerative intention. This article tracks our interplay of...
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Melissa Dunlop, PhD @melissadunlop.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Fresh out today, a collaborative paper about the regenerative potentials of collaboration journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Regeneration: A Collaborative Writing, Making, and Moving Inquiry - Melissa Dunlop, Alys Mendus, Mark Price, Karen Abadie, Laurinda Brown, Carol Laidler, Marian Liebmann, Marina Malthouse, Grace Mendu...
Nine members of the Collaborative Artful Narrative Inquiry network (CANI-net) gathered to explore a regenerative intention. This article tracks our interplay of...
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Melissa Dunlop, PhD @melissadunlop.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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The States of the Earth - Notes - e-flux
Sabu Kohso interview theorist Mohamed Amer Meziane about his book The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization.
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Melissa Dunlop, PhD @melissadunlop.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hello everyone, I host a monthly Open Space for people doing creative, collaborative & narrative research. Our next meeting is on Monday 2nd December, 6.30pm - 8.00pm UK time and will be led by The Bodies Collective To join us, message me for the Zoom link. cani-net.com/events/26/
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Event: Open Space - December 2024: Exploring The Collaborative Body in Qualitative Research
A Presentation and Exploration with The Bodies Collective Based on our book with Routledge: “The Collaborative Body in Qualitative Research: Becoming Bodyography” (1), we will investigate the tension ...
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Melissa Dunlop, PhD @melissadunlop.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hello everyone, I host a monthly Open Space for people doing creative, collaborative & narrative research. Our next meeting is on Monday 2nd December, 6.30pm - 8.00pm UK time and will be led by The Bodies Collective To join us, message me for the Zoom link. cani-net.com/events/26/
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Event: Open Space - December 2024: Exploring The Collaborative Body in Qualitative Research
A Presentation and Exploration with The Bodies Collective Based on our book with Routledge: “The Collaborative Body in Qualitative Research: Becoming Bodyography” (1), we will investigate the tension ...
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Melissa Dunlop, PhD @melissadunlop.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Before being derailed by psychoanalysis, I worked here, the first Cyberia, spreading a bright vision of the future. I still believe communication is the way forward www.vice.com/en/article/w...
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Remembering Cyberia, the World's First Ever Cyber Cafe
Back in the 90s — before the internet was evil — Cyberia in London was a haven for pilled-up ravers, gamers, and Kylie Minogue alike.
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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The Ethical Dignity of Anora - Notes - e-flux
Aaron Schuster examines the parallels between the hit indie film Anora and Pretty Woman and Interdevochka.
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Dr Nini Kerr @ninikerr.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
📢 CfP ‘Hope and Despair: Crisis and Opportunity’ APS Annual Conference 🗓️ 9-10 June St Mary’s University London Key themes: diverse psychosocial perspectives on how crises shape lives & societies ⏳ Deadline: 10 Feb 25 www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/conference-2...
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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…
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