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Conference Schedule:
Wednesday, 7 November 2018
10.00-10.15 – Welcome and Introduction
Hubertus Büschel (University of Groningen)
10.15-12.00 – Keynote Lecture
Nancy R. Hunt (University of Florida):
“Madness, Psychiatry, and the Vernacular”
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.00 – Paper Presentation
Sloane Mahone (University of Oxford)
“Casting Out Anger: Stress, Possession and Hysteria in Taita, Kenya”
14.00-15.00 – Paper Presentation
Matthew M. Heaton (Virginia Tech)
“The Doctor Describes it as ‘Mental Disorder’: Student Anxiety and Brain Fag Syndrome in Late Colonial Africa”
15.00-16.00 – Paper Presentation
Nina Stuber (University of Bern)
“Sharing a Drink: A History of Alcoholism in Colonial Algeria”
16.00-17.00 – Paper Presentation
Hubertus Büschel (University of Groningen)
“Mr. Tanka’s Illness: Biopolitics of Schizophrenia in Colonial Africa”
17.00-19.00 – Film Screening and Discussion
Robert Lemelson (University of California in Los Angeles)
“Shadows and Illuminations”
19.00-19.15 – Closing Remarks for Day 1
Hubertus Büschel (University of Groningen)
Thursday, 8th November 2018
10.00-10.15 – Welcome and Introduction
Hubertus Büschel (University of Groningen)
10.15-12.00 – Keynote Lecture
Waltraud Ernst (Oxford Brookes University)
“Global Histories of Madness”
12.00-13.00 – Lunch
13.00-14.00 – Paper Presentation
Richard Keller (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
“World Mental Health Twenty Years Later: The Impact and Limitations of a UN Report”
14.00-15.00 – Paper Presentation
A. Tancrède Pagès (University of Groningen)
“Sanctioned Dying: A Cultural History of Death in Lutindi Mental Hospital, Tanzania”
15.00-16.00 – Paper Presentation
Richard Hölzl (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
“The Psyche and the Soul: Missionary Anxiety and the Psychology of Conversion, 1900s to 1950s”
16.00-17.00 – Paper Presentation
Jonathan Sadowsky (Case Western Reserve University)
“Depression and Culture: The History of a Global Mental Health Conundrum”
17.00-18.00 – Paper Presentation
Thomas Röske (Prinzhorn Collection of the Psychiatric University Clinic of Heidelberg)
“Modernism and Madness Regarding Sex, Gender, and Sexual Inclination in Drawings of the Prinzhorn Collection, Heidelberg”
18.00-18.15 – Closing Remarks on Workshop
Hubertus Büschel (University of Groningen)
General Information
Participation fee for lunch, coffee etc.
30,-- Euro/ day
To express interest in participating in the workshop or for general inquiries, please contact A. Tancrède Pagès at a.t.a.pages@rug.nl with ‘Global Histories of Psychiatry’ written as the subject.
Organized by:
Prof. Dr. Hubertus Büschel (University of Groningen)
&
A. Tancrède Pagès (University of Groningen)