This blog follows the history of psychiatry

Madness on Stage – Staging Madness. Techniken der Inszenierung von ‘Krankheitsbildern’ und ‘Gefühlstönen’

Workshop der DFG-Forschergruppe “Kulturen des Wahnsinns”, Schwellenphänomene der urbanen Moderne (1870-1930)

Veranstalter: Dr. Sophie Ledebur, Alexander Friedland und Dr. Rainer Herrn vom Institut für Medizingeschichte Berlin

07.06.2013-08.06.2013

Berlin, TMF, Charlottenstraße 42/Ecke Dorotheenstraße

 

Programm

Freitag, 7. Juni 2013

9. 00 Uhr Begrüßung und Einführung

 

Sektion 1: erkennen

Chair: Armin Schäfer (Berlin/Hagen)

9. 15 Uhr Hubert Thüring (Basel):

Schreiben, Zeichnen und andere Produktionsformen im Medienverbund der Psychiatrie bei Adolf Wölfli und Walter Morgenthaler

9. 45 Uhr Yvonne Wübben (Bochum/Wien):

Conveying Knowledge. The Rise of Psychiatric Textbooks in Late 19th Century Germany

10. 15 Uhr Ingrid Kleeberg (Hannover):

Diagrammatik des Unbewussten. Die Visualisierungspraktiken der Analytischen Psychologie Carl Gustav Jungs

 

10. 45 Uhr Pause

 

11. 15 Uhr Rupert Gaderer (Bochum):

„Mein Recht muss mir doch werden!“ H. Bahrs Der Querulant 1914/1970

11. 45 Uhr Rainer Herrn (Berlin):

Der demonstrierte Wahnsinn – Die Klinik als Bühne

Kommentar: Eric J. Engstrom (Berlin) bis 12.45 Uhr

 

Mittagessen im Gebäude der Tagung

 

Sektion 2: inszenieren

Chair: Beate Binder/Sven Bergmann (beide Berlin)

13. 45 Uhr Gabriele Dietze (Berlin):

Vom ‘Expressionisten-Abend‘ zur Dada-Performance. Vom vorsätzlichen Wahnsinn in den Bühnenshows von Literatur-‚Revoluzzern‘ 1910-1920 in Berlin

14. 15 Uhr Eric Savoth (Berlin/Berkeley):

The Stage as Anthropological Experiment: Literary Texts and Scientific Knowledge in Erich Wulffen’s Criminology

14. 45 Uhr Julia B. Köhne (Wien):

Männliche Hysterie auf dem Schirm. Visuelle Narrationen und Theatralität in militärpsychiatrischen Filmen des Ersten Weltkriegs

 

15. 15 Uhr Pause

 

15. 45 Uhr Martina Wernli (Würzburg):

„Wer ist gescheiter, Ihr oder ich?” Wissensinszenierungen in Notaten Klinischer Vorstellungen um 1900

16. 15 Uhr Christian Sauer (Salzburg):

Re│Staging Hysteria & Paranoia. Performative Spiegelungen Charcots und Freuds in den Theaterinszenierungen von Salvador Dalí

Kommentar: Uffa Jensen (Berlin) bis 17. 15 Uhr

18. 00 Uhr Céline Kaiser (Bonn):

Stationen einer Ausstellung: Szenische Intervention seit dem 18. Jahrhundert

Ort: Medientheater, Georgenstraße 47, 10117 Berlin

 

19. 30 Uhr gemeinsames Abendessen

 

Samstag 8. Juni 2013

Sektion 3: visualisieren

Kunstposition: Helen Follert (Berlin): ‘Kontorsionen’

Chair: Dorothea Dornhof (Berlin)

10. 00 Uhr Nicolas Pethes (Bochum/Budapest):

Logoskopie und Gedankenphotographie. Halluzination, Wissenschaft und Medientechnologie bei Hyppolite Baraduc, Friedrich Feerhow und Ludwig Staudenmaier

10. 30 Uhr Katrin Pilz (Brüssel):

ABNORMAL MOTION – the dis-functional displayed in early medical films

11. 00 Uhr Sophie Ledebur (Berlin):

Ein Blick in die Tiefe der Seele. Hypnose im frühen psychiatrischen Film

 

11. 30 Uhr Pause

 

12. 00 Uhr Mireille Berton (Lausanne):

Psychiatrie und Kino um 1900: der halluzinierte Zuschauer?

12. 30 Uhr Veronika Rall (Zürich):

Die kinematografische Selbstreflexion: Das Andere der Vernunft im Spielfilm um 1900

Kommentar: Margarete Vöhringer (Berlin) und

Abschlussdiskussion bis 14. 00 Uhr

 

Für weitere Informationen

Kontakt:

Sophie Ledebur

Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Campus Charité Mitte, Ziegelstr. 10, D-10117 Berlin

sophie.ledebur@univie.ac.at

May 22^nd – 24^th 2013 at the University of Copenhagen

Programme

Keynote speakers

• Professor Jay Winter, Department of History, Yale University
• Dr Mette Bertelsen, Danish Veteran Centre, Copenhagen Denmark

Professor Michael Roper, Department of Sociology, University of Essex

Professor Simon Wessely, Professor of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London and Director, Kings Centre for Military Health Research Institute of Psychiatry

Dr Sophie Delaporte, Faculty of Philosophy and Human and Social Sciences, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens

Dr. Raya Morag, Department of Communication & Journalism, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Professor Allan Young, Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal

Kenynote and guest speakers – abstracts and biographies (pdf).

Themes
This cross-disciplinary conference focuses on genres of post-traumatic stress as identified and studied in military and civilian psychology, social and cultural history, and film studies as well as literary and art criticism. Body, mind and emotion inflected by time and locality should be explored together with the interconnected histories of individual (combat) and collective (civilian) aftershock.

Rationale
Since the 1980s public awareness of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder resulting from prolonged battle-field experiences has been on the rise. Indeed, the phrase Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has become part of the normal parlance both in Europe and the United States, and after the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the presence of veterans suffering from psychological wounds has become ever more apparent. Despite this public attention, these disorders and their cultural consequences still cause confusion and anxiety in Europe and the United States, both in academic and public realms. This  conference provides a forum where psychologists, military, medical and social historians and other experts from the humanities can gather to explore the familial, clinical, communal, political and cultural consequences of psychological trauma since the First World War. In order to illuminate and contextualize contemporary debates and compare different responses to trauma, the conference aims to examine historical conflicts over the origins of psychological wounds, debates concerning the social and cultural impact of trauma, and perspectives on the political significance of mental trauma in diverse historical settings.

Impact
By bringing together experts from varied fields and regions, we aim to not only strengthen scholarly methods and analysis, but also foster innovative ways of thinking about contemporary public debates over the origins and effects of war-induced traumatic illness. We plan to do this through a discussion of diverse issues, including (1) the effects of psychological trauma on historical and contemporary societies; (2) cultural assumptions and medical theories about traumatized individuals and the nature of trauma; (3) the re-integration of traumatized ex-servicemen into civilian societies, both historical and contemporary; (4) representations of traumatized men and women in political, social and cultural discourse, including art and film; (5) different perspectives on the meaning of traumatic illness and prescriptions for recovery in diverse societies.

Interdisciplinary and Cross-cultural Form:
In order to achieve this goal, the conference requires an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural and transnational breadth. Unlike earlier conferences that have addressed the theme of such conditions, ‘AfterShock’ seeks to bring together such diverse fields of inquiry as history, medicine, sociology, gender studies, literature and film studies in order to integrate our knowledge and surpass the limited ranges on any one discipline. To augment this interdisciplinarity, we also seek to bring in experts from diverse regions, so as to provide us with insights into the various national traditions and histories that evolved out of twentieth century wars and to better understand how these traditions and histories dealt with post-traumatic stress disorders. This interdisciplinary approach will enable us to integrate historical knowledge and contemporary ways of thinking about the cultural impact of traumatic illness, allowing experts from seemingly divergent specialized and chronological contexts to compare and re-consider their methods for investigating the origins, meanings and consequences of these wounds.

Participants

The conference subject is not restricted geographically. We welcome contributions from Denmark and the Nordic countries, from western, central and eastern European as well as from the Americas and elsewhere. We are also keen to promote innovative (for example comparative) methodologies, and to highlight new case studies.

Participants – abstracts (pdf).
Participants – assembled biographies (pdf).

All enquiries should be directed to aftershock@hum.ku.dk.