2nd Global Conference (2009)

2nd Global Conference

Monday 14th September – Thursday 17th September 2009
Mansfield College, Oxford

The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme

from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Nancy Billias and Maria Vaccarella

14.00
Session 1 (in common with the conference “Monsters and the Monstruous”): Devouring Others
Chair: Peter Mario Kreuter

Cecil Chabot
Witiko Possession and Starvation Cannibalism Among the Cree of James Bay: Monstrosity or Madness?

Chris Richardson
Monster or Clown? Bad or Crazy? Who Can Tell?

Mireille Mazard
Stalking the Mikhru: Monsters, Missionaries, and Madness in Communist China

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 2: Madness in Historical Perspective
Chair: Gonzalo Araoz

Sonja Deschrijver
Mad or Bad? The Construction of Insanity in the Southern Netherlands (16th-17th Century)

Shilpi Rajpal
Everyday History: Life inside the Delhi Lunatic Asylum 1870-1900

17.30
Notices and Announcements

17.40
Wine Reception

18.30
Dinner

Tuesday 15th September 2009
09.00
Session 3: Women’s Madness Narratives
Chair: Maria Vaccarella

Shu-ming Hung
Breaking the Boundaries of Madness ~ Doris Lessing’s The Four-Gated City

Michelle Iwen
“The Perennial Other:” Eighteenth Century Women Writers and the Developing Discourse of Madness

Katarzyna (Kasia) Szmigiero
Can Writing Help to Heal? Therapeutic Value of Women’s Madness Narratives

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4: Madness and Literature
Chair: Pieter Adriaens

Renana Elran
The Beast Within: A Metaphor of Madness in Autobiographies of Schizophrenics 1920s-1940s

Georgina Willms
Examining the Effect of Madness on Creative Output in the Poetry of Ivor Gurney

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5: Cultural Constructions of Madness
Chair: Cynthia Wachtell

Pieter Adriaens
On Niches and Nutters: an Alternative View

Pranoti Chirmuley
Construction of the Mad Bawas: image of the Parsis in Mumbai

Chrisl Thomas
The Concept of “Psycho-Resistance” and its Contribution to Caribbean Historiography

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 6: Wounded Healers
Chair: Isabelle Travis

Terry Joyce
Beyond the Pale – Nurses’ Construction of Colleagues with Mental Illness

Thematic discussion.

17.00
Sessions End

Wednesday 16th September 2009
09.00
Session 7: Madness and Gender
Chair: Sonja Deschrijver

Lucy Costa and Andrea Daley
Sexing up the Psychiatric Record: A Pilot Study of the Documentation of Women’s Sexuality in Psychiatric In-Patient Charts

Analu Verbin
Anorexia as Parody: Body, Femininity and Culture

Angela Woods
Mathematics <> Masculinity <>Madness

Andrea Daley
The Reconfiguration of Lesbian/Queer Sexualityby Mental Health Service Provider Responses to Self-Disclosures

11.00
Coffee

11.30
Session 8: Constructing the Future
Enabler: Gonzalo Araoz

Round-table reflections on future avenues and directions for wrestling with madness.

12.30
Lunch

No formal programme this afternoon. Time for sight-seeing and shopping.

Thursday 17th September 2009
09.00
Session 9: Madness and Law
Chair: Katarzyna (Kasia) Szmigiero

Vikash Kumar
Mental Health and Law in India

Ji yun Park
Instrumentalisation of the concept of insanity within the boundaries of legal institution through an episode of Boston Legal

10.30
Coffee

11.30
Session 10: Madness and Creativity 1
Chair: Chrisl Thomas

Gonzalo Araoz
Madness, Chaos, Complexity and Bricolage

Canan Şavkay
Social Morality as a Sign of Madness in Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 11: Madness and Creativity 2
Chair: Pieter Adriaens

Jennifer Kanary
Roomforthoughts: Labyrinth Psychotica

Sandra Uray-Kennett
Music from another room. A Visual Investigation into the Silent Signs of Madness

15.30
Tea

16.00
Closing Thematic Reflections
Development Meeting

17.00
Conference Close