Magaly Tornay, Institut für Medizingeschichte, Universität Bern
(please note: non-hybrid event, only in presence)
Thursday, October 6, 2022
14.00–14.30 Welcome and Introduction: Mischa Suter & Magaly Tornay (Geneva/Bern)
14.30–15.30 Emmanuel Delille (Paris/Berlin): “Transculturality and multiculturalism policies in Canada”
15.30–16.00 Coffee Break
16.00–17.00 Ana Antić (Copenhagen): “Primitivism, modernity and recovery: Schizophrenia as a site for reimagining the post-WWII world”
17.00–18.00 David Robertson (Princeton): “The World Health Organization and the standardization of global psychiatry, 1950–1980”
Friday, October 7, 2022
Discussion of PhD projects / Commentator: Dagmar Herzog (New York)
09.00–10.00 Lisa Schmidt-Herzog (Lübeck): PhD project paper discussion: “The Other as dis-order: Deviation and Alterity in the Knowledge of Culture-Comparative Psychiatries”
10.00–11.00 Paola Juan (Lausanne): PhD project paper discussion: “A ‘mirroring effect’: Psychiatry, coloniality, and kinship in Switzerland”
11.00–11.30 Coffee Break
11.30–12.30 Joshua Klein (Geneva): PhD project paper discussion: “Ethnopsychiatric experts: Scientific internationalism and the reconfiguration of the mind, 1930–1980”
12.30–14.00 Lunch Break
14.00–15.00 Pokuaa Oduro-Bonsrah (Geneva): PhD project paper discussion: “It takes a village of ‘experts’ to raise a child. Exploring the psychological constructions of ‘the African’ personality based on observations of child-rearing practices (1930-1980)”
15.00–16.00 Romain Tiquet (Aix/Marseille): “A look back at a post-colonial experience of a ‘therapeutic village’: the village of Kenia (Ziguinchor, Senegal, 1970s)”
16.00–16.30 Coffee Break
16.30–17.30 Camille Robcis (New York): “Disalienation: Politics, philosophy, and radical psychiatry in postwar France”
17.30–18.30 Final Discussion
Conference Dinner
Saturday, October 8, 2022
10.00–12.00 Book Workshop with Camille Robcis: “Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France”
for papers of PhD project presentations and book workshop, please contact mischa.suter@graduateinstitute.ch