The Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar (Spring 2020)
Convenes on the 1st & 3rd Wednesdays from September through May
2:00 PM Baker Tower Conference Room F-1200
January 1
New Year’s Day – No Meeting
January 15
Deborah Doroshow, M.D., Ph.D., Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Stevens-Barchas Lecture: “Residential Treatment and the Invention of the Emotionally Disturbed Child in America”
January 29
Issues in Mental Health Policy
February 5
Ben Kafka, Ph.D., New York University/IPTAR: “The Effort to Drive the Other Person Crazy”
February 19
Andrew Hogan, Ph.D., Creighton University: “Science and Advocacy: Debating the Role of Psychology in Mental Retardation after 1980”
March 4
Mary Jacobus, Ph.D., Cornell University. Esman Lecture: “Border Crossing: Josef Koudelka and the Principle of the Wall”
March 18
Liz Mellyn, Ph.D., University of New Hampshire. “Madness in the Early Modern City: The Public Health Nexus”
April 1
Joel P. Eigen, Ph.D., Franklin & Marshall College: “Searching for the Elusive Link: Behavioral Genetics, Neuroscience, and Criminal Responsibility”
April 15
Carolyn Laubender, Ph.D., University of Essex: “Empires of Mind: Psychosocial Cartographies of ‘The Empire’ in a Narrative of a Child Analysis”
April 29 Issues in Mental Health Policy
Craig L. Katz, M.D., Mount Sinai Health System: “Psychiatry, Immigrant Detention, and Beyond”
May 6
Sandrin Djian, Doctoral Candidate, Tel Aviv University: “The influence of activists’ voices on the US Mental Health Discourse as reflected in the variation of the significance of ‘Healing Terms’ between 1970-2010”
May 20
Fernando Vidal, Ph.D., Autonoma University of Barcelona. Eric T. Carlson Memorial Lecture: Grand Rounds, Uris Auditorium: “How We Became Our Brains.”
Richardson Seminar, Room F1190: “Performing Brains on Screen.”
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