Psychiatry, Mental Health and the Arts, Past and Present Conference

Dates: Thursday, June 20, 2024 - 09:00 to Friday, June 21, 2024 - 16:00
Location: Online and Walton Hall, The Open University, Milton Keynes

About the conference

Our conference takes place on 20-21 June 2024, online and at The Open University’s Milton Keynes campus. We are delighted to welcome speakers from across the globe and from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds.

In-person attendance can be booked by emailing PAN@open.ac.uk.

About the Psychiatry and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Britain (PAN) Network

The AHRC-funded network ‘Psychiatry and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Britain’ aims to draw together scholars working on different aspects of the history of the intersection between the arts and psychiatry, chiefly in the context of nineteenth-century Britain and its interpretations. It also seeks to open conversations and identify synergies between scholars of history and practitioners in the creative arts, healthcare and heritage sectors. For further information about the PAN Network, view our Wordpress blog.

Image: Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum.
Process print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855. Wellcome Collection 20050i