Psychiatry, the Arts and The Spanish Transition to Democracy: Dialogues and Intersections
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Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
The event brings together scholars and practitioners from different disciplinary approaches: history of medicine and psychiatry, literature, history of art, philosophy, audiovisual art, and cultural studies whose work addresses questions of mental health, politics and the arts in Spanish recent history. The aim of the colloquium is to create a space to explore different approaches to political transformation during the Spanish transition to democracy (1975-1982) in relation to radical questionings of subject construction and mental illness, considering in particular the role of creativity and the arts. The colloquium aims to stimulate a sharing of knowledges able to produce new ways of looking at received ideas, while showing the relevance of mobilizing different historical actors and connections to make new knowledges emerge.
The format will be that of a workshop with participants offering short position papers followed in the second part of the day by an open collective discussion.
Contact name: Mari-Paz Balibrea Enriquez
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