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From Origins to Margins: Dwelling in Difference, Power, and Presence

  • Boston College, Campion Hall Room 139 2599 Beacon Street Newton, MA, 02467 United States (map)

4th and final talk of the 2025-2026 Conference Series by Robin Chalfin, LICSW

Chalfin centers queer and feminist theory as essential to an existential-phenomenological exploration of the paradox of powerlessness and powerfulness.Considering non-dual spiritual traditions, deconstructive and critical theory, psychoanalytic relational frameworks, and the existential relational tradition cultivated at NECET, she highlights how marginal voices – often erased or minimized in dominant narratives – offer vital perspectives on vulnerability, responsibility, and being-with.Embracing multiplicity, friction and dislocation, not as deficits but as generative conditions for relational and pollical aliveness, Chalfin reframes home and belonging as dynamic, contested, and transformative. Tracing a journey from formative origins to dwelling in the margins, the presentation invites reflection on how difference (differance), power, and presence create openings for clinical practice and community-making that inhabit, rather than resolve, paradox.

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Boston College, Lynch School of Education
Campion Hall, Room 139
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  1. attend all four talks of the series,

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  3. and pay for CEUs. (Link to purchase.)

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