Psychopolitics in the Era of Decolonization

Psychopolitics in the Era of Decolonization

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Mischa Suter (Graduate Institute, Geneva); Magaly Tornay (History of Medicine, University of Bern) (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)
Ausrichter
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Veranstaltungsort
Maison de la Paix, Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2
PLZ
1211
Ort
Genève
Land
Switzerland
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Vom - Bis
06.10.2022 - 08.10.2022
Von
Magaly Tornay, Institut für Medizingeschichte, Universität Bern

Workshop 6–8 October 2022
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Psychopolitics in the Era of Decolonization

During the period of imperial decline, the mind sciences became a key site for negotiating the ‘political’, understood both in terms of power relations and, more narrowly, as expressive collective projects. Psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and psychology were venues for reformatory, emancipatory and repressive approaches alike, and thus became a central foil on which differences and similarities were discussed as, after 1945, biological notions of race seemingly receded to the background and questions about personalities, inner selves, dreams, and traumas were posed in a new way and on a worldwide scale.

Recent research has charted the ways in which late-colonial rule and the modern human subject of psychoanalysis and psychiatry were co-produced. However, the mind sciences also offered means to envisage forms of world-making beyond colonial rule. Local sites of practices and specific encounters have moved into the focus of studies that show how a plethora of historical actors, not just clinicians and scientists, have shaped the history of the psyche since the mid-century.

Inspired by this new wave of research, the workshop provides a forum for the discussion of ongoing research on the politics of psychoanalysis, psychiatry, and psychology during decolonization. In addition to conventional paper presentations, emphasis is also given to the discussion of emerging PhD projects.

Programm

(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

Kontakt

E-Mail: mischa.suter@graduateinstitute.ch
E-Mail: magaly.tornay@img.unibe.ch

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