Events

Location: Online

Our third symposium will combine a broad consideration of psychiatry and the arts in their nineteenth-century context, including issues of race, class and gender, with key papers on the relationship between history and modern practice.

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Our conference will take place at The Open University’s Milton Keynes campus and online. Submissions are welcome from academics, practitioner-researchers, archivists, artists, musicians and other creative practitioners, heritage and medical professionals, patients and service-users. We invite proposals for papers and presentations of 20 minutes, creative sessions, demonstrations, workshops or performances of 20-45 minutes, or round tables/panels of 1-2 hours. If you would like to propose a contribution in a different format, please get in touch with the PAN Network team via <PAN@open.ac.uk>.

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In this first symposium we will examine practices concerning the arts, creativity, psychiatry and mental health in nineteenth-century Britain. Papers cover aspects such as the visual arts, music, costume and literature. We plan to livestream part of the event.

Confirmed speakers include: Mila Daskalova, Jessica Campbell, Maureen Park, Rosemary Golding, Laura Blair and Ute Oswald

The second symposium will consider discourses around the arts and psychiatry in nineteenth-century Britain.

View the call for papers, programme and abstract for this event.