In a garden in South Africa grows a shrub whose flowers confront us with the passing of time: a bloom opens deep violet, softens to pale lavender by the next day, and fades to white on the third. Gardeners call it *Brunfelsia pauciflora*, but its common name is more telling — Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Past, present, and future flower together on the same branch, in the same hour. It is this quiet meditation on time that lends its name to the International Association for Jungian Studies’ (IAJS) 25th Anniversary Conference.
The conference, themed **Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow**, takes place 22–25 July 2027 at the University of Essex in Colchester, England, roughly 70 miles from London. The theme frames the conference’s central question: where does the field of Jungian and post-Jungian studies stand now, and what is emerging in its landscape? Sessions will trace the discipline’s historical trajectory, take stock of the present moment, and look ahead to what might grow next from what organizers describe as “the tree with many branches” of this work — an image not unlike the shrub itself, one plant holding three seasons of colour at once.
IAJS was founded in 2002 as a small, largely online meeting space for academics and Jungian-trained clinicians. Over the past quarter-century it has grown into a global forum for Jungian and post-Jungian scholarship, sustaining an international journal, an annual book awards program, the C.G. Jung Award, and a full calendar of seminars and conferences. Fittingly, the anniversary gathering returns to the discipline’s academic birthplace: Essex’s Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, home to founding IAJS members Renos Papadopoulos, Andrew Samuels, and Roderick Main.
Proposals from the Global South and other underrepresented perspectives are especially welcome, as are contributions in a range of formats — papers, forums, panels, arts-based research and practice, drama, and meditational or experiential sessions. Those who have already presented at IAJS seminars or other conferences, but have not yet published the material, are encouraged to bring their topic here; reworked material is welcome, though presentations must not duplicate previously published work.
IAJS is now accepting 300-word abstracts addressing historical, contemporary, or foreseeable debates in Jungian and post-Jungian studies, grounded in existing scholarship. Submissions should engage with the field’s past, present, and future — including how its existing body of work might be studied academically, how it might integrate with other disciplines, and how Jung’s own wide-ranging curiosity continues to inform the field today. Abstracts are due by 21 June 2026, sent to 25thanniversaryiajs@gmail.com; submissions received by that date will receive first consideration, though the deadline may be extended. Questions and informal conversations about paper ideas are welcome in advance of submission — but not required. All are encouraged simply to send in a proposal.