ISAP Zurich has a packed slate of programming ahead, from their autumn lecture series to a milestone birthday celebration, and an eye already on 2027. We have rounded up a taste of what they have planned.
Jungian Keynotes: Facing Contemporary Challenges
Kicking things off is the Autumn 2026 Jungian Keynotes series, running as a four-day intensive from September 8–11, with eight lectures held on-site and live via Zoom. The series takes on Jungian psychology’s relevance to a world in crisis: war, ecological collapse, digital media’s psychological toll, and the erosion of truth under the weight of power and artificial intelligence. Speakers include Murray Stein asking what to do about “too much intelligence and too little wisdom,” Bernard Sartorius reading the Golem as prophecy for industrial consumer civilisation, and Marian Dunlea on BodyDreaming in a time of conflict, alongside talks from Josephine Evetts-Secker, Brigitte Egger, Deborah Egger-Biniores, Andrew Fellows, and John Desteian. The full series is available as a single ticket or on a lecture by lecture basis.
Mercurius Prize: There Is Another Way
On September 18, ISAP hosts the Mercurius Prize award ceremony, honouring filmmaker Stephen Apkon for his human rights documentaries Disturbing the Peace and There Is Another Way. The free event includes a screening followed by a panel discussion led by Murray Stein with Apkon and the prize committee.
Zurich Lecture Series: The Alchemical Mind
The main Zurich Lecture Series follows on October 7–10, with Jungian analyst Leslie de Galbert exploring an unlikely trio of Jung, Tibetan Buddhism, and the late scientist-philosopher Francisco Varela. De Galbert traces how Varela’s concept of embodied cognition, developed in dialogue with the Dalai Lama through the Mind and Life Institute, offers a way through Jung’s own paradox: his insistence that Westerners were too bound to dualism to grasp Eastern nondual thought, set against his belief that the archetypes are universal. The package includes a gala dinner, five lectures, and postlude talks from Murray Stein and Ursula Wirtz The accompanying excursion to the Rietberg Museum’s Tibetan art collection is already sold out, but might be worth a solo trip! Registration closes September 30.
Peter Ammann’s Birthday Celebration
October 16–17 brings a personal and cinematic occasion. Analyst Peter Ammann’s 95th birthday is marked with a two-part lecture on his time as an assistant to Federico Fellini. Ammann, fresh out of the C.G. Jung Institute in the 1960s, talked his way onto Fellini’s set just as the director was moving through a creative crisis that pushed his films away from personal narrative and toward archetypal myth. Two films from either end of that shift will be screened alongside the lectures, with a birthday dinner to follow.
Looking Ahead: The 20th Jungian Odyssey
Further out, ISAP has already set the date for its 20th annual Jungian Odyssey conference and retreat. Themed “The Way of the Waters: The Dark Mirror of the Soul,” it takes place on May 22–29, 2027, drawing on Jung’s writing on water as the most common symbol of the unconscious.
You can view the full programme of their Special Events, here.