Mental Illness

FIGS Forum - Mental Illness

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Eventbrite - FIGS Friday Forum - Mental Illness

The topic of the FIGS Friday Forum on 31st May 2013 is Mental Illness.

We aim to explore this topic from an interdisciplinary perspective.

In particular, we aim to look at varying representations of mental illness in Psychology, History, Literature and Art.

As part of our discussion we will explore the development of the concept of madness, representations of mental illness in antiquity, the role of repressed instincts and desires in causing or constituting mental illness and the connection between mental illness and artistic creativity.

For attendants who do not wish to present, but who would like to develop some ideas about the notion of mental illness, it is useful to look online at The Prinzhorn Collection.

The Prinzhorn Collection consists of paintings from the psychiatric patients of the German psychologist and art historian Hans Prinzhorn.

Many of these patients, whose illnesses included schizophrenia and manic depression, produced unsettling images through which, it seems we witness the products of a process of exercising internal demons.

The collection offers some insight into the mind of the mentally ill and it prompts questions about the relationship between mental illness and creativity as well as questions on the role of art as a therapeutic tool.

Details

Friday 31 May 2013
9.30am - 7.00pm
UCL Arts and Humanities Common Room
Foster Court
Room G24

Registration

The forum is open to all staff and graduate students in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, please register to attend via the FIGS Forum Eventbrite page.

Please feel free to join us for the whole day, or to simply join the session you are most interested in. 

Eventbrite - FIGS Friday Forum - Mental Illness

For further information on this forum please contact Akosua Bonsu akosua.bonsu.09@ucl.ac.uk

Programme

9.30 - 10.00
 Tea / Coffee
10.00 - 10.05
Introduction
10.05 - 11.05

Session One

Jo Wolff (Professor, Philosophy):

Social Justice and the Distribution of Mental Illness

Colette Vesey (PhD candidate, European Studies):

The Voice of Reason in a Deranged Society: on representation of the intellectual
11.05 - 12.15

Session Two

Joanna Wilson (MSc candidate, Comparative Literature):

Passive Objects and Active Subjects

Keith Cheung (MA candidate, English):

Human All Too Human: The Strange Case of Sylvia Plath

Marie Markwardt (MA candidate,  Comparative Literature):

Is Transmission of Suffering Through Literature Possible?

12.15 - 1.30
 Sandwich lunch - provided by FIGS
1.30 - 2.40

Session Three

Emily Lord-Kambitsch (PhD candidate, Greek and Latin Studies):

Emotions, Mental Illness, and Marginalisation in Imperial Rome

John Foot (Professor, Modern Italian History):

Negated Institutions: The anti-asylum movement in Italy 1961 - 1972

Kaye McLelland (PhD candidate, English):

'Would You Not Think Them Ridiculously Mad?': Mental Illness and Faith in Post-Reformation England

2.40 - 3.40

Session Four

Jillian Craigie  (Senior Research Fellow, Philosophy):

Neurodiversity, Mental Incapacity and Forced Treatment

Maarten Steenhagen (PhD candidate, Philosophy):

Brain Disruption and Imagined People
3.40 - 4.00
 Tea / Coffee Break
4.00 - 4.45

Session Five

Belinda Edith Stojanovic (PhD candidate, Hebrew and Jewish Studies):

Exploring the Concept of Mental Illness

Mererid Puw Davies (Senior Lecturer,Germany):

Illness and Capital are the Same Thing
4.45 - 5.15

Session Six

Errol Francis (Lecturer, Slade School of Fine Art):

The madness of the artist: from genius to creative
5.15 - 5.45
Summary Discussion 
5.45 - 7.00
 Drinks reception

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