About this event

Presented in collaboration between the Institute of Psychoanalysis and the Centre for Philosophy and Arts at King’s College London.

What does it mean to know? And what lies beyond what is knowable? Between knowledge and ignorance, certainty and doubt, knowing and not knowing: where do we stand, and what does it mean to remain open to both knowing and not knowing? Join philosophers, analysts and artists as we try to work this out.

A drinks reception will take place afterwards.

Join us in London at the Institute of Psychoanalysis for the live discussion. For those further afield or in different time zones, a recording will be available to all registered delegates for two weeks after the event.

Michelle Williams Gamaker is an award-winning artist and filmmaker whose practice spans performance and installation. She is joint winner of Film London’s Jarman Award (2020) and the Stuart Croft Moving Image Award (2020) for The Bang Straws (2021), and her films have twice won Best Experimental Film at the Aesthetica Short Film Festival (2021, 2023). Recent works include Oberon (2023), commissioned by the BFI for its Powell & Pressburger season, and the forthcoming Strange Evidence (2026), which examines the disguised ancestry of 20th-century film star Merle Oberon. She is also Professor of Fine Art at Goldsmiths and a British Academy Wolfson Fellow (2022–25).

Ben Ware is Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Art at King’s College London, where he is also a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy. His work explores the intersections between continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, and modernist aesthetics. He is the author of numerous books, most recently On Extinction: Beginning Again at the End (Verso, 2024).

William Badenhorst is a psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society and a psychiatrist in private practice.

Alla Rubitel is a psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society and a consultant psychiatrist in the NHS at the Portman Clinic.

Concession tickets are available, for students, BPAS candidates and NHS trainees. Please email [email protected] if you are unsure if you qualify for a concession ticket.

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Views and opinions expressed by speakers are their own and do not represent the views or opinions of the Institute, event organisers or other speakers. We expect delegates to respect the confidentiality of clinical material discussed in our events. The content must not be recorded, conveyed or disseminated in any format and participants must not share access to the event with non-registered participants.

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