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Who cares? De la psychiatrie dans l'aire anglophone
Le projet transversal “Who cares? De la psychiatrie dans l’aire anglophone” est porté par 4 enseignantes-chercheuses de l’Université Paris Nanterre : Cécile Birks, Claire Deligny, Laurence Dubois (OAB / HP2A) et Elisabeth Fauquert (Politiques Américaines) et une enseignante-chercheuse de la Sorbonne Nouvelle : Laetitia Sansonetti (PRISMES).
Ce projet comporte deux axes:
Projet de traduction collaborative de l’ouvrage de WAF Browne What Asylums are, were and ought to be, publié en 1837, réédité en anglais par Andrew Scull dans une version critique au début des années 1990 (The asylum as Utopia : W.A.F. Browne and the mid-nineteenth century consolidation of psychiatry / edited by Andrew Scull. London , New York: Routledge, 1990) mais inédit dans sa version française.
Colloque international en trois volets :
Février 2025 : “People and Places”
Février 2026 : “Theories and Policies”
Février 2027 : “Circulations and Transfers”.
Les ambitions du colloque “Who Cares?” :
Créer un lieu d’échange interdisciplinaire et international sur la psychiatrie dans l’aire anglophone
Etablir un nouveau réseau de recherche pérenne sur le sujet
Renforcer le rayonnement de l’OAB, du CREA et de l’Université Paris Nanterre dans ce domaine.
Outre la mise en valeur de ses activités permanentes de recherche, le groupe a vocation à faciliter les liens avec les autres disciplines qui travaillent sur l’histoire de la psychiatrie (psychologie, médecine etc….) et avec d’autres groupes existants, notamment : la SFHSH (Société française pour l’histoire des sciences de l’homme), le groupe History of Science, Medicine and Technology Research Group (University of Edinburgh), la Society for the Social History of Medicine (Oxford University), et le séminaire d’histoire de la psychiatrie de l’Hôpital Sainte Anne.
Ce projet comporte deux axes:
Projet de traduction collaborative de l’ouvrage de WAF Browne What Asylums are, were and ought to be, publié en 1837, réédité en anglais par Andrew Scull dans une version critique au début des années 1990 (The asylum as Utopia : W.A.F. Browne and the mid-nineteenth century consolidation of psychiatry / edited by Andrew Scull. London , New York: Routledge, 1990) mais inédit dans sa version française.
Colloque international en trois volets :
Février 2025 : “People and Places”
Février 2026 : “Theories and Policies”
Février 2027 : “Circulations and Transfers”.
Les ambitions du colloque “Who Cares?” :
Créer un lieu d’échange interdisciplinaire et international sur la psychiatrie dans l’aire anglophone
Etablir un nouveau réseau de recherche pérenne sur le sujet
Renforcer le rayonnement de l’OAB, du CREA et de l’Université Paris Nanterre dans ce domaine.
Outre la mise en valeur de ses activités permanentes de recherche, le groupe a vocation à faciliter les liens avec les autres disciplines qui travaillent sur l’histoire de la psychiatrie (psychologie, médecine etc….) et avec d’autres groupes existants, notamment : la SFHSH (Société française pour l’histoire des sciences de l’homme), le groupe History of Science, Medicine and Technology Research Group (University of Edinburgh), la Society for the Social History of Medicine (Oxford University), et le séminaire d’histoire de la psychiatrie de l’Hôpital Sainte Anne.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Who Cares? Psychiatry in the English-speaking world:
People and Places
International Conference Université Paris Nanterre 6-8 February 2025
People and Places
International Conference Université Paris Nanterre 6-8 February 2025
Organising committee: Cécile Birks, Claire Deligny, Laurence Dubois, Elisabeth Fauquert (Université Paris Nanterre) & Laetitia Sansonetti (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle).
Scientific committee: Cécile Birks (Université Paris Nanterre), Claire Deligny (Université Paris Nanterre), Laurence Dubois (Université Paris Nanterre), Elisabeth Fauquert (Université Paris Nanterre), Hervé Guillemain (Université du Mans), Julie Le Gac (Université Paris Nanterre & Institut Universitaire de France), Fabienne Moine (Université Paris-Est Créteil), Michel Prum (Université Paris Cité) & Laetitia Sansonetti (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle).
DAY 1 : THURSDAY, 6 February 2025
Salle des conférences, Bâtiment Max WEBER, Université Paris Nanterre
8:45 – 9:15 Welcome & opening of the conference
9:15 – 9:30 Opening speech, Françoise KRÁL (director of the CREA research laboratory, Université Paris Nanterre)
9:30 – 10:30 KEYNOTE 1 Rory DU PLESSIS (University of Pretoria): “Humanising stories of care and connection: placing the chronic patients of the Fort England Hospital, South Africa, 1890-1950”
Chair: Michel PRUM (Université Paris Cité)
10:30 – 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 – 12:50 Panel 1 – Racial bias, migration and psychiatry
Chair: Michel PRUM (Université Paris Cité)
10:50 – 11:10 Cécile BIRKS (Université Paris Nanterre): “ Segregation and racial bias in the Cape Colony mental institutions, 1890-1910”
11:10 – 11:30 Samantha HOSEIN (University of the West Indies): “St Ann’s Mental Asylum: External and Internal Determinants of Mental Healthcare Development in Trinidad and Tobago, 1900- 1939”
11:30 – 11:50 Léna MONEME (University of Luxembourg): “The repatriations of immigrant patients from the UK: administrative practices and psychiatric perspectives (1950s-1970s)”
11:50 – 12:10 Elodie EDWARDS-GROSSI (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL & Institut Universitaire de France) & Christopher D.E. WILLOUGHBY (University of Nevada, Las Vegas): “Thinking through carceral logics in psychiatry: revisiting race and marginality in the U.S. today”
12:10 – 12:50 Q&A
12:50-2 Lunch Break
2 – 3:30 Panel 2 – Outside the walls of mental health institutions
Chair: Elisabeth FAUQUERT (Université Paris Nanterre)
2 – 2:20 Laurence GERVAIS (Université Paris Nanterre): “Queering mental health: From pathologisation and backlash to mutual-aid and radical care”
2:20 – 2:40 Cecilia SMITH (Université Côte d’Azur): “Homelessness, psychiatric care and deinstitutionalization in Greater Boston since the 1960s”
2:40 – 3 Rebecca WYNTER (University of Amsterdam): “People Out of Place: Policing Mental Distress on London’s Streets since 1890”
3 – 3:30 Q&A
3:30 – 3:45 Coffee Break
3:45 – 5:45 Panel 3 – Psychiatry and war
Chair: Hervé GUILLEMAIN (Université du Mans)
3:45 – 4:05 Rachel DITCHFIELD (University of Liverpool & the Imperial War Museum): “The impact of the First World War on the therapeutic spaces of Bethlem Royal Hospital”
4:05 – 4:25 Claire DELIGNY (Université Paris Nanterre): “Displacing people: the Lancashire lunatic asylums at war (1914-1922)”
4:25 – 4:45 Rob ELLIS (Manchester Metropolitan University) & Ute OSWALD (University of Huddersfield): “Asylum: Refugees and Mental Health. Belgians in British Asylums 1914-1918”
4:45 – 5:05 Julie LE GAC (Université Paris Nanterre & Institut Universitaire de France): “‘His Patient is the Army rather than the Individual’: Military Psychiatrists and British soldiers during the Second World War”
5:05 – 5:45 Q&A
5:45 – 6:00 Break
6 – 6:30 Poster Presentation in the hall (Master’s Students from Paris Nanterre and Sorbonne Nouvelle)
6:30 Cocktail reception
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DAY 2 : FRIDAY, 7 February 2025
Salle des conférences, Bâtiment Max WEBER, Université Paris Nanterre
9 – 9:15 Welcome coffee
9:15 – 10:15 KEYNOTE 2 Susan HOGAN (University of Derby & Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham): “Therapeutic Arts in Britain with a Focus on Britain’s First Arts-Based Therapeutic Community: Withymead”
Chair: Charlotte GOULD (Université Paris Nanterre)
10:15 – 11:15 Panel 4 – Art and creativity
Chair: Charlotte GOULD (Université Paris Nanterre)
10:15 – 10:35 Rachel WILSON (Goldsmiths, University of London): “Institutional Psychotherapy: mobilising aesthetic practice in contemporary mental health institutions”
10:35 – 10:55 Fabienne MOINE (Université Paris-Est Créteil): “‘The silver lining of the dark cloud of insanity’: asylums and ‘lunatic poetry’” (Britain, 1840s-1870s)
10:55 – 11:15 Q&A
11:15 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 1 Panel 5 – Conceptualising places of care
Chair: Naomi TOTH (Université Paris Nanterre & Institut Universitaire de France)
11:30 – 11:50 Nicolas BOILEAU & Victoria FERNANDEZ (Aix-Marseille Université): “Don’t we all care? Thinking about the hospital as a place of commonality rather than as a common place”
11:50 – 12:10 Susan BARRETT (Université Bordeaux Montaigne): “Lost in Transition: Who cares about mentally-ill young adults?”
12:10 – 12:30 Louise HIDE (Birkbeck, University of London).: “‘Too passive to present any problem to management’: the psychiatric hospital as a technology of control”
12:30 – 1 Q&A
1 – 2:15 Lunch break
2:15 – 4:15 Panel 6 – Places of care in England
Chair: Anatole Le Bras (Université Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines)
2:15 – 2:35 Hilary MARLAND (University of Warwick): “‘Never in asylum before’: Mental Disorder and Childbirth in Colney Hatch Asylum, London, 1890s-1920s”
2:35 – 2:55 Han DEE (Queen Mary University of London): “Broadmoor: ‘It’s A Good Home Ain’t It?’ Approaching location to discover neglected histories”
2:55 – 3:15 Leonard SMITH, (University of Birmingham): “Family, Domesticity and the English Private Madhouse, 1600 – 1875”
3:15 – 3:35 Claire DELIGNY & Laurence DUBOIS (Université Paris Nanterre): “‘A kind and judicious chaplain may be a valuable auxiliary to the physician’ : Chaplains at Hanwell and Rainhill asylums (1838-1886)”
3:35 – 4:15 Q&A
4:15 – 4:30 Coffee break
4:30 – 6 Panel 7 – Early Labellings
Chair: Laetitia SANSONETTI (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
4:30 – 4:50 Louise FANG (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord): “Musgrave v. Mounson (1623): exploring the shortcomings of early modern inquisitions of lunacy”
4:50 – 5:10 Beatrice FUGA (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle): “Compulsive, Convulsive, Conniving. Eighteenth-century Nymphomaniacs in French and English Medical Texts”
5:10 – 5:30 Mathilde VIALARD (Université de Bourgogne): “‘Who cares’ about Hypochondria? An Overview of an Often-Forgotten Mental Disorder”
5:30 – 6 Q&A
6 – 6:40 Psychiatry on screen Chair : Serge CHAUVIN (Université Paris Nanterre)
6 – 6:20 Jocelyn DUPONT (Université de Perpignan): “Psychiatric Spaces in Early 1960s American Cinema”
6:20 – 6:40 Q&A
6:40 – 7 Closing speech, Who Cares? committee members
Dinner in town (conference delegates only)
DAY 3: SATURDAY, 8 February
Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Bd de l’Hôpital, 75013 PARIS
10-12 noon Guided tour and conference (in English) of the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital (conference delegates only)
Scientific committee: Cécile Birks (Université Paris Nanterre), Claire Deligny (Université Paris Nanterre), Laurence Dubois (Université Paris Nanterre), Elisabeth Fauquert (Université Paris Nanterre), Hervé Guillemain (Université du Mans), Julie Le Gac (Université Paris Nanterre & Institut Universitaire de France), Fabienne Moine (Université Paris-Est Créteil), Michel Prum (Université Paris Cité) & Laetitia Sansonetti (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle).
DAY 1 : THURSDAY, 6 February 2025
Salle des conférences, Bâtiment Max WEBER, Université Paris Nanterre
8:45 – 9:15 Welcome & opening of the conference
9:15 – 9:30 Opening speech, Françoise KRÁL (director of the CREA research laboratory, Université Paris Nanterre)
9:30 – 10:30 KEYNOTE 1 Rory DU PLESSIS (University of Pretoria): “Humanising stories of care and connection: placing the chronic patients of the Fort England Hospital, South Africa, 1890-1950”
Chair: Michel PRUM (Université Paris Cité)
10:30 – 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 – 12:50 Panel 1 – Racial bias, migration and psychiatry
Chair: Michel PRUM (Université Paris Cité)
10:50 – 11:10 Cécile BIRKS (Université Paris Nanterre): “ Segregation and racial bias in the Cape Colony mental institutions, 1890-1910”
11:10 – 11:30 Samantha HOSEIN (University of the West Indies): “St Ann’s Mental Asylum: External and Internal Determinants of Mental Healthcare Development in Trinidad and Tobago, 1900- 1939”
11:30 – 11:50 Léna MONEME (University of Luxembourg): “The repatriations of immigrant patients from the UK: administrative practices and psychiatric perspectives (1950s-1970s)”
11:50 – 12:10 Elodie EDWARDS-GROSSI (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL & Institut Universitaire de France) & Christopher D.E. WILLOUGHBY (University of Nevada, Las Vegas): “Thinking through carceral logics in psychiatry: revisiting race and marginality in the U.S. today”
12:10 – 12:50 Q&A
12:50-2 Lunch Break
2 – 3:30 Panel 2 – Outside the walls of mental health institutions
Chair: Elisabeth FAUQUERT (Université Paris Nanterre)
2 – 2:20 Laurence GERVAIS (Université Paris Nanterre): “Queering mental health: From pathologisation and backlash to mutual-aid and radical care”
2:20 – 2:40 Cecilia SMITH (Université Côte d’Azur): “Homelessness, psychiatric care and deinstitutionalization in Greater Boston since the 1960s”
2:40 – 3 Rebecca WYNTER (University of Amsterdam): “People Out of Place: Policing Mental Distress on London’s Streets since 1890”
3 – 3:30 Q&A
3:30 – 3:45 Coffee Break
3:45 – 5:45 Panel 3 – Psychiatry and war
Chair: Hervé GUILLEMAIN (Université du Mans)
3:45 – 4:05 Rachel DITCHFIELD (University of Liverpool & the Imperial War Museum): “The impact of the First World War on the therapeutic spaces of Bethlem Royal Hospital”
4:05 – 4:25 Claire DELIGNY (Université Paris Nanterre): “Displacing people: the Lancashire lunatic asylums at war (1914-1922)”
4:25 – 4:45 Rob ELLIS (Manchester Metropolitan University) & Ute OSWALD (University of Huddersfield): “Asylum: Refugees and Mental Health. Belgians in British Asylums 1914-1918”
4:45 – 5:05 Julie LE GAC (Université Paris Nanterre & Institut Universitaire de France): “‘His Patient is the Army rather than the Individual’: Military Psychiatrists and British soldiers during the Second World War”
5:05 – 5:45 Q&A
5:45 – 6:00 Break
6 – 6:30 Poster Presentation in the hall (Master’s Students from Paris Nanterre and Sorbonne Nouvelle)
6:30 Cocktail reception
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DAY 2 : FRIDAY, 7 February 2025
Salle des conférences, Bâtiment Max WEBER, Université Paris Nanterre
9 – 9:15 Welcome coffee
9:15 – 10:15 KEYNOTE 2 Susan HOGAN (University of Derby & Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham): “Therapeutic Arts in Britain with a Focus on Britain’s First Arts-Based Therapeutic Community: Withymead”
Chair: Charlotte GOULD (Université Paris Nanterre)
10:15 – 11:15 Panel 4 – Art and creativity
Chair: Charlotte GOULD (Université Paris Nanterre)
10:15 – 10:35 Rachel WILSON (Goldsmiths, University of London): “Institutional Psychotherapy: mobilising aesthetic practice in contemporary mental health institutions”
10:35 – 10:55 Fabienne MOINE (Université Paris-Est Créteil): “‘The silver lining of the dark cloud of insanity’: asylums and ‘lunatic poetry’” (Britain, 1840s-1870s)
10:55 – 11:15 Q&A
11:15 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 1 Panel 5 – Conceptualising places of care
Chair: Naomi TOTH (Université Paris Nanterre & Institut Universitaire de France)
11:30 – 11:50 Nicolas BOILEAU & Victoria FERNANDEZ (Aix-Marseille Université): “Don’t we all care? Thinking about the hospital as a place of commonality rather than as a common place”
11:50 – 12:10 Susan BARRETT (Université Bordeaux Montaigne): “Lost in Transition: Who cares about mentally-ill young adults?”
12:10 – 12:30 Louise HIDE (Birkbeck, University of London).: “‘Too passive to present any problem to management’: the psychiatric hospital as a technology of control”
12:30 – 1 Q&A
1 – 2:15 Lunch break
2:15 – 4:15 Panel 6 – Places of care in England
Chair: Anatole Le Bras (Université Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines)
2:15 – 2:35 Hilary MARLAND (University of Warwick): “‘Never in asylum before’: Mental Disorder and Childbirth in Colney Hatch Asylum, London, 1890s-1920s”
2:35 – 2:55 Han DEE (Queen Mary University of London): “Broadmoor: ‘It’s A Good Home Ain’t It?’ Approaching location to discover neglected histories”
2:55 – 3:15 Leonard SMITH, (University of Birmingham): “Family, Domesticity and the English Private Madhouse, 1600 – 1875”
3:15 – 3:35 Claire DELIGNY & Laurence DUBOIS (Université Paris Nanterre): “‘A kind and judicious chaplain may be a valuable auxiliary to the physician’ : Chaplains at Hanwell and Rainhill asylums (1838-1886)”
3:35 – 4:15 Q&A
4:15 – 4:30 Coffee break
4:30 – 6 Panel 7 – Early Labellings
Chair: Laetitia SANSONETTI (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
4:30 – 4:50 Louise FANG (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord): “Musgrave v. Mounson (1623): exploring the shortcomings of early modern inquisitions of lunacy”
4:50 – 5:10 Beatrice FUGA (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle): “Compulsive, Convulsive, Conniving. Eighteenth-century Nymphomaniacs in French and English Medical Texts”
5:10 – 5:30 Mathilde VIALARD (Université de Bourgogne): “‘Who cares’ about Hypochondria? An Overview of an Often-Forgotten Mental Disorder”
5:30 – 6 Q&A
6 – 6:40 Psychiatry on screen Chair : Serge CHAUVIN (Université Paris Nanterre)
6 – 6:20 Jocelyn DUPONT (Université de Perpignan): “Psychiatric Spaces in Early 1960s American Cinema”
6:20 – 6:40 Q&A
6:40 – 7 Closing speech, Who Cares? committee members
Dinner in town (conference delegates only)
DAY 3: SATURDAY, 8 February
Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Bd de l’Hôpital, 75013 PARIS
10-12 noon Guided tour and conference (in English) of the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital (conference delegates only)
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