Programme

Registration

Location: The Hub Theatre

Welcome
Paper session 1: The Visual Arts

Shaona Barik - ‘Seances and Spiritual Practices as Healing Art: A Study of Women’s Art in Victorian England and Colonial India

Kay Simpson - ‘Coloured Light in the Victorian Asylum’

Susan Hogan - ‘Healing Arts: The Intellectual Precursors of Professional Art Therapy’

Paper session 2: Contemporary meanings and interpretations

Valentin Maier - ‘The Role of Mental Attributes in Character Creation from Victorian Tabletop Role-Playing Games'

Cheryl McGeachan - ‘Storying the Extraordinary: Lived Experience and the Art Extraordinary Collection’

Nicola Simpson - ‘Hellesdon Hospital and the Art of Recovery’

Valentina Bold and Jennifer Challinor - Crichton UNESCO Memory of the World bid

Panel: the arts in nineteenth-century asylums

Laura Blair, Jessica Campbell, Rosemary Golding, Ute Oswald

Concert and BBQ

Details to be provided

Creative session

Catherine Pestano - Singing for Health and Wellbeing

Paper session 3: music

Kristin M. Franseen - ‘“Flattered, feted, extolled, nay, almost deified”: Antonio Salieri’s Hospitalization and Narratives of “Mental Debility” and Posthumous Legacy in The Harmonicon, 1823-1833’

Danielle Roman - ‘Music and Madness in the Life of Georgina Weldon’

Nicholas Bannan - ‘Darwin, Music and Health: Well-being and the origins of music’

Paper session 4: literature

Menglu Gao - ‘Addiction Psychiatry and Mid-nineteenth-century Literary Forms of Inflation’

Kelsey J. Brazil ‘Agency through Creative Literacy at The Retreat’

Gordon Bates, ‘Victorian Psychology, Suggestive Therapy and Gothic Literature’