(Artist credit: Stephen Magrath.)
University of Essex, 13-14 September 2018
PLEASE NOTE: THE CONFERENCE IS NOW FULLY BOOKED AND WE CAN ONLY ACCEPT NEW REGISTRATIONS FROM CONFIRMED SPEAKERS. PLEASE DO NOT COMPLETE THE REGISTRATION FORM BELOW UNLESS YOU WILL BE DELIVERING A PAPER
Info here: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/acqt66m9.)
The Conference programme has now been published. You can read abstracts for the conference papers here.
Mental illness has long been of interest to researchers in the humanities, including in philosophy, linguistics, sociology, history and politics. In a domain where psychologists and psychiatrists have focused on identifying interventions and developing explanatory models, scholars in the humanities have preferred to explore broad conceptual and cultural questions. For instance:
- Where do notions like “mental health” and “mental illness” come from? What can we learn from their history?
- How do specific diagnostic categories emerge?
- How does psychiatric language shape the way we think about ourselves and each other?
- How should we understand the relationship between mental illness and personal responsibility?
- How does stigma about mental illness function?
- How can we distinguish illness and disorder from other kinds of difference?
- To what extent can psychiatry be considered a science?
Uniting Two Perspectives aims to demonstrate that a dialogue between philosophy and linguistics can help shed light on these important issues.
Keynote speakers
Nelya Koteyko – Reader in Applied Linguistics, Queen Mary, University of London
(http://language-centre.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/language-centre/people/academic/koteyko.html)
Tim Thornton – Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health, University of Central Lancashire (https://www.uclan.ac.uk/staff_profiles/4844.php)
Venue
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
Essex
CO4 3SQ
Travel information
(https://www.essex.ac.uk/life/colchester-campus/how-to-get-here )
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