Dear H-Madness readers,

We are pleased to announce a lecture series by professor Akihito Suzuki (University of Tokyo), entitled « A Psychiatric Hospital in Tokyo in the Early Half of the XXth Century » which will take place at Inalco and Paris Cité University (Paris) from April 13 to 15, 2026

The programme is detailed below:

Programme
« The Geographical and Social Establishment of Early Mental Hospitals in Tokyo 1880-1945 »
[13 avril, 14h30 – 16h, Inalco (Amphi 8)]
Séance commune du cours « Santé et Société » (Inalco) et du séminaire « Anthropologie et Histoire du corps et de la santé » (UPC) 
https://ifrae.cnrs.fr/event/the-geographical-and-social-establishment-of-early-mental-hospitals-in-tokyo-1880-1945/

« The Second World War and the Destruction of the Psychiatric Hospitals »
[14 avril, 16h – 18h, UPC (salle 481C)]
Conférence animée par Ken Daimaru (CRCAO, UPC), discutants : Nicolas Henckes (CNRS – Cermes3), Sheldon Garon (Princeton University / Sciences Po) 
https://ifrae.cnrs.fr/event/the-second-world-war-and-the-destruction-of-the-psychiatric-hospitals/

« Police, Korean patients and the Public Sphere of Tokyo »
[15 avril, 16h30 – 18h30, Inalco (salle 4.17)]
Conférence animée par Sarah Terrail Lormel (IFRAE, Inalco), discutant.e.s : Marianna Scarfone (SAGE, Unistra), Jimin Choi (D. Kim Foundation / Cambridge University) 
https://ifrae.cnrs.fr/event/police-korean-patients-and-the-public-sphere-of-tokyo/

Biography
Akihito Suzuki was born in 1963 in Shizuoka, Japan. He received a BA (1986) and an MPhil (1988) from the University of Tokyo. He studied the history of medicine in London and received a PhD in 1992. After completing a few postdoctoral positions in England, Scotland, and Tokyo, he began teaching at Keio University in 1997. Since 2021, he has been teaching the history of medicine at the University of Tokyo. His speciality is the history of psychiatry and infectious diseases in Europe and Japan. He published Madness at Home: The Psychiatrist, the Patient, and the Family in England (2006) and Reforming Public Health in Occupied Japan, 1945-52 (2012, co-authored with Chris Aldous). He was awarded the Gijuku Prize at Keio University (2007) and the Carlson Award at the Cornell Medical School (2014).