Academics

Beshara, R. (2019, May). Lacan avec Said: Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis as a Radical Qualitative Research Method in Critical Psychology and Beyond. Paper presented at the Lack iii conference, Clark University, Worcester, MA.

Beshara, R. (2019, April). From Virtual Internment to Actual Liberation: The Epistemic and Ontic Resistance of US Muslims to the Ideology of (Counter)Terrorism-Islamophobia/Islamophilia. Paper presented at the 10th Annual Islamophobia Conference, University of California, Berkeley. Watch video (my presentation starts at 6:32:00).

Beshara, R. (2019, February). Make America Great: Ye’s cultural appropriation of MAGȺ as a form of cultural resistance in line with the Black Radical Tradition. Paper presented at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, NM.

Beshara, R. (2019, January). The pathologization of (‘Black’) subjectivity: The public misconstruction of Kanye West’s bi-polarity and his radical reconstruction. Paper presented at the Lacanian Compass Flash Cartel’s Presentations, “Constructions in Analysis,” virtual via Webex.

Beshara, R. (2018, May). Lucky in Savannah: Beckett avec Lacan. Paper presented at the 4th Biennial 2018 International Žižek Studies Conference, Athens, GA.

Beshara, R. (2018, April). Towards critical Islamophobia studies. Paper presented at the 9th Annual International Conference on the Study of Islamophobia, University of California, Berkeley. Watch video (my presentation starts at 44:50).

Beshara, R. (2017, October). The aesthethics of double-consciousness: A La-Kanyan analysis of oppression through artivism. Paper presented at the LACK II: Psychoanalysis and Politics NOW conference, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO. 

Beshara, R. (2017, June). Decolonizing psychoanalysis / Psychoanalyzing Islamophobia. Paper presented at the Islamic Psychoanalysis / Psychoanalytic Islam conference organized by the College of Psychoanalysts - UK, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.

Beshara, R. (2016, October). Islamophobic stereotyping. Slideshow presented at the Multicultural Conversation series organized by the Center for Diversity and Inclusion, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA.

Beshara, R. (2016, April). An archeology of terrorism: Islamophobia as both a fundamental fantasy and a counter-discourse. Paper presented at the 7th Annual International Conference on the Study of Islamophobia, Berkeley, CA.

Beshara, R. (2016, April). Terrorism and Islamophobia as contested concepts/uncontested realities. Paper presented at the 2016 Duquesne/UWG Human Science Symposium, Carrollton, GA.

Beshara, R. (2015, April). A critical discourse analysis of George W. Bush’s “war on terror” speech. Paper presented at the 6th Annual International Conference on the Study of Islamophobia, Berkeley, CA. 

Beshara, R. (2015, April). Framing Islam in the US media. Paper presented at the Student Psychology Annual Research Conference (SPARC), Carrollton, GA. 

Beck, T., Glazier, J., Ingle, M., Beshara, R., O’Gwin, C., Friedman, E., & Wright, C. (2015, March). University of West Georgia research projects. Poster presentation at the 8th Annual Conference of the Society for Humanistic Psychology, Chicago, IL. 

Beshara, R. (2014, October). Long distance romantic relationships: An analysis of intimacy, identity, and distance in cyberspace. Paper presented at the 29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities, Carrollton, GA.    

Beshara, R. (2014, July). Facebook friends as mental health amateurs: A case study on the New Age subculture. Paper presented at Fears and Anxieties in the 21st Century, Oxford, UK. 

Beshara, R. (2014, July). The psychological construction of reality: An essay in the Buddhist psychology of knowledge. Paper presented at the International Conference on Identity Studies, Vienna, Austria. 

Beshara, R. (2014, April). An internet pornography addict walks into a clinic. Paper presented at the Student Psychology Annual Research Conference (SPARC), Carrollton, GA.

Beshara, R. (2014, March). Postmodernist cinema, and questions of 'reality'. Poster presentation at the Division 24 Midwinter Meeting, Atlanta, GA. 

Beshara, R. (2013, May). Transcinema: The purpose, uniqueness, and future of cinema. Paper presented at the 2013 Key West International Multidisciplinary Academic Conference, Key West, FL.

Beshara, R. (2013, April). Evaluating FB friends... Paper presented at the Student Psychology Annual Research Conference (SPARC), Carrollton, GA.

Glazier, J. W., Skalski, J. E., Gibson, M. D., Beshara, R., Atlas, N., Beck, T., Friedman, E., Gimeno, R., Pratte, E. A., & Roland, K. N. (2013, March). University of West Georgia Research Projects. Poster presentation at the 6th Annual Conference of the Society for Humanistic Psychology, Santa Barbara, CA.

Beshara, R. K. (2019). Review of Ian Parker's Psychoanalysis, Clinic and Context: Subjectivity, History and Autobiography. Language and Psychoanalysis, 8(2). doi: 10.7565/10.7565/landp.v8i2.1600.

Beshara, R. K. (2019). Freddie versus Maya: A textual analysis of two narrative structurations of (post)colonial ‘Brown’ subjectivity as read through Lacanian Film Theory. Film Criticism, 43(1). doi:10.3998/fc.13761232.0043.105

Beshara, R. K. (2019). Decolonial psychoanalysis: Towards critical Islamophobia studies. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Beshara, R. K. (2018). Decolonizing psychoanalysis / psychoanalyzing Islamophobia. In I. Parker & S. Siddiqui (Eds.), Islamic psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic Islam: Cultural and clinical dialogues. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Beshara, R. K. (2018). Dear Boots, thank you for bothering us!. darkmatter: in the ruins of imperial culture, 10.  

Beshara, R. K. (2018). Decolonizing Everyday Islamophobia Through an Antiterrorist Ethic of Resistance. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167818817185

Beshara, R. K. (2018). Lucky in Savannah: Beckett avec Žižek. International Journal of Žižek Studies, 12(3).

Beshara, R. K. (2018). A critical discourse analysis of George W. Bush’s ‘War on Terror’ speech: The rhetoric of (counter)terrorism and the logic of Islamophobia. Journal of Language and Discrimination, 2(1), 85-112. 

Beshara, R. K. (2018). Charlie Hebdo: Differences in corporate and alternative media coverage. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 1-7.

Beshara, R. (2018). Language for Resisting Oppression: Keying in on revolution. Against The Current, 192, 42-43.

Beshara, R. (2017). Cutting through false dualisms: Transformative social change as a transmodern moral framework for critical psychological research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 16(1), 1-10.

Beshara, R. (2016). The Psychological Construction of Reality: An Essay in the Buddhist Psychology of Knowledge. International Journal of Peace Studies, 21(1), 71-95.

Beshara, R. (2016). Those who can, teach and do. International Society for Theoretical Psychology Newsletter, 1, 9-10. Retrieved August 30, 2016, from http://psychology.ucalgary.ca/istp/newsletter/FIRST ISSUE 2016.pdf

Beshara, R. (2015). A holistic approach to regulating negative emotions. Language and Psychoanalysis, 4(2), 50-63. 

Beshara, R. (2015). I am not my name. In Uncommon Cairo. H. Habib (Ed.). London, UK.

Ghita, C. & Beshara, R. (2014). Fear and anxiety in the 21st century: The European context and beyond. Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford, U.K. 

Beshara, R. (2013). Facebook friends as mental health amateurs: A case study on the new age subculture. Journal of Transpersonal Research, 5(2).

Beshara, R. (2013). The chakra system as a bio-socio-psycho-spiritual model of consciousness: Anahata as heart-centered consciousness. International Journal of Yoga-Philosophy, Psychology and Parapsychology, 1(1), 29.

Beshara, R. (2013). Transcinema: The purpose, uniqueness, and future of cinema. Review of Social Studies, Law, and Psychology, 7(1), 124-132.