Past events

• 24 Oct. 2024, 14:00-16:00

  Psychoanalysis and its Limits

  Talk by Omnia El Shakry, professor of history at Yale University.

• 12 Sept. 2024, 16:15-17:30

  What We've Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms

  HUM:Global Talk! book discussion with Professor Jonathan Metzl.

• 20 June - 21 June 2024

  DECOLMAD Workshop: Psy-disciplines and Primitivism in Postcolonial Times

  Workshop.

• 22 May 2024, 16:00-17:30

  Experiments in Consciousness: The Neuro Disciplines in the 1950s

  Seminar with Prof. Andreas Killen (The City College of New York).

• 16 May - 18 May 2024

  Culture and the Mind: Voices, Sites and Practices

  Conference.

• 30 Apr. 2024, 13:00-15:00

  Mobilities and mental health in the modern Middle East: beyond methodological nationalism in the history of colonial psychiatry

  Lecture with Chris Sandal-Wilson, University of Exeter

• 22 Feb. 2024, 13:00-14:30

  The semantics of "community" in the development of mental health policy

  Lecture.

• 2 Feb. 2024, 14:00-16:00

  Technologies of Mind and Body in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc

  At this launch event, Anna Toropova and Claire Shaw will introduce their new edited volume for Bloomsbury, Technologies of Mind and Body in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc.

• 1 Feb. 2024, 14:00-16:00

  Psychiatric Encounters between Czechoslovakia and Ethiopia during and after Communism

  Talk by Dr Sarah Marks, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Mental Health, Birkbeck, University of London.

• 11 Dec. 2023, 12:00

  Parenting as/in Crisis: Transcultural constructions of parenting and parenthood

  This half-day workshop seeks to explore parenting and parenthood under the conditions of crisis/hardship.

• 30 Nov. - 1 Dec. 2023

  Resilience and reconstruction: Histories of the present

  A two-day workshop.

• 8 Nov. 2023, 14:00-16:00

  Reconstructing the Psyche

  Lecture by Jason Crouthamel, Professor of History at Grand Valley State University in Michigan.

• 11 Sept. 2023, 14:00-17:00

  Chile a 50 años del golpe

  Seminario. The event is in Spanish, all are welcome!

• 26 June 2023, 14:00-16:00

  Organic Psyche Against Colonialism? Notes from Late Colonial India

  Sarah Pinto, Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University, talks about how Indian psychiatrists experimented- conceptually and clinically- with materialist concepts of self and psyche.

• 15 June 2023, 16:00-18:00

  Smerte-Hjerte. Kontinuitetsnotat

  Book presentation and conversation with the authors.

• 12 June 2023, 14:00-16:00

  Modeling Decolonization: Leaders and Followers in the Human Sciences at the End of Empire

  What did the geopolitical rupture of decolonization mean for the human sciences? Lecture by Associate Professor Erik Linstrum, University of Virginia.

• 4 May 2023, 16:00-18:00

  Culture, coercion, and power in post-war health and social welfare in Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Talk by Reima Ana Maglajlic, a Reader in Social Work at the University of Sussex, Brighton.

• 19 Apr. 2023, 14:00-16:00

  Gloominess as Resilience. Contesting Hegemonic Affective Regimes in Pandemic-Era China

  Talk by Anna Iskra, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen.

• 2 Feb. - 3 Feb. 2023

  Shaping the Global Psyche: Colonialism, Transcultural Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

  This workshop will explore the origins and development of the global psyche and global mental health (GMH). It examines historical, sociocultural and political aspects of the internationalisation of psychiatry.