3rd Global Conference
Tuesday 14th September – Thursday 16th September 2010
Oriel 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
Tuesday 14th September 2010
from 12.30
Registration
13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Gonzalo Araoz
14.00
Session 1: Madness and Philosophy
Chair: Gonzalo Araoz
Love and Madness in Plato’s Phaedrus
Rekha Navneet
Madness, Civilization, and the Reversal of Platonism
Noelle Vahanian
Madness as a Philosophical Problem in Hegel
Sean McGrath
Can we Understand Madness without Rationalizing It? Sense, Common-Sense and Nonsense in Psychoanalytic Explanation
Johnathan Sunley
16.00
Coffee
16.30
Session 2: Madness, Logic and Modernity
Chair: Johnathan Sunley
From Madness: Frege, Logic, and the Case of Logical Aliens
James Pearson
Along the Borderline of Modern Madness
William Davis
Jean-Pierre Brisset, the Test of Modernity
Marc Decimo
17.50
Notices and Announcements
Wine Reception
18.30
Dinner
Wednesday 15th September 2010
09.00
Session 3: The Experience of Madness and Difference
Chair: Marc Decimo
Along the Edge: Accompanying Passages
Daniel Scott
The Visibility of Difference: Gender and Suicide in Psy-Knowledge
Katrina Jaworski
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 4: Madness and Literature
Chair: Katrina Jaworski
Something Rotten in Denmark: “Madness” and Subversion in Hamlet
Amy Gordon
E.A. Poe: “The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether”: Siting America’s Insanity
Daniela Fargione
“Because the drummed rhythm was 7 …” (Artaud: ‘Tutuguri’ 1948)
Richard McGregor
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 5(a): Madness and Gender in Literature
Chair: Richard McGregor
Maddening Passion in The Morgesons
Xiang Long
An Unsound Mind in an Unsound Body: Bodily Manifestations of Mental Distress in Women’s Madness Narratives
Katarzyna Szmigiero
15.00
Coffee
15:30
Session 5(b): Madness, Ethics and Literature
Chair: Katarzyna Szmigiero
Prophetic Madness, or Being “Madly” Human: A Reading of the Social Dimensions of Cure and Sanity in Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier (1918)
Kristen Renzi
Uncontrollable Passion or a Deeper Ethical Problem: Revisiting Medea from a Feminist Reading
Seyda Inceoglu
Madness: A Guilt, a Condition or a Choice? The 19th Century Polish Version of the Mad or Bad Dilemma
Mira Marcinow
17:00
Session 6: Metaphors of Madness
Chair: Mira Marcinow
Dancing Across Minefields: Madness, from Complex Systems to Mobile Metaphors
Alan Beattie
Roaring Poetry, Singing Frenzy. A Transcultural Enquiry on Lovesickness
Nicoletta Fazio
18.00
Sessions End
Thursday 16th September 2010
09.00
Session 7: Madness and Creativity I
Chair: Nicoletta Fazio
Categorical Impulses: Classifying Behaviour as a Means of Control
Suzanne Albanus
Madness, Creativity, and the Pre-Oedipal
Laura Chernaik
The Creativity of Mad People’s Labour: From Exploitation to Commemoration
Geoffrey Reaume
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 8: Madness and Creativity II
Chair: Geoffrey Reaume
Their Lives A Storm Whereon They Ride: The Affective Disorders and College Composition
Stephanie Stone Horton
Of Congenial Paranoids and Enlightened Shadows: Theatrical Madness in Titzina’s Folie à Deux: Dreams from a Psychiatric Hospital and Marta Carrasco’s White of a Shadow: Remembering Camille Claudel
Núria Casado
Roomforthoughts: Labyrinth Psychotica, Simulating the Experience of Time and Space During Psychosis
Jennifer Kanary
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 9: Performing Madness
Chair: Natacha Filippi
Madness–An Escape or a Dead End?
Iwona Bojarska
From Ego to a New Self: Madness as a Method of Liberation
Sylvie Simonds
Institutional Autoethnography as Relational-reflexive Testimony: Refuting ‘Obsessive-Compulsive’ Personality
Louise Tam
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session 10: Madness and Politics
Chair: Louise Tam
The Uses for Respectable Madness in the Irish Provincial press 1800-1850
John O’Neill
Deviance, Punishment and Logics of Subjectivation during Apartheid: Insane, Political and Common-law Prisoners in a South African Jail (1947-1994)
Natacha Filippi
17.00
Development Meeting and Closing Remarks
17.30
Conference Ends
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