Upcoming events.
Transformation/ Camille Robcis
Title: Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France
This talk maps the intersections of politics, philosophy, and radical psychiatry in twentieth-century France. It focuses on a psychiatric movement called “institutional psychotherapy” which had an important influence on many intellectuals and activists, including François Tosquelles, Jean Oury, Felix Guattari, Frantz Fanon, Georges Canguilhem, and Michel Foucault. Anchored in Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis, institutional psychotherapy advocated a fundamental restructuring of the asylum in order to transform the theory and practice of psychiatric care. More broadly, for many of these thinkers, the asylum could function as a microcosm for society at large and as a space to promote non-hierarchal and non-authoritarian political and social structures. Psychiatry, they contended, provided a template to better understand alienation and offer perspectives for “disalienation.”
Bio:
Camille Robcis is Professor of French and History at Columbia University. She specializes in Modern European History with an emphasis on gender and sexuality, France, and intellectual, cultural, and legal history. She is especially interested in the intersections of politics and ideas. She is the author of The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France (Cornell UP, 2013) and of Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France (Chicago UP, 2021). She is currently working on a new project, The War Against Gender.
Practical Info:
When: December 14 - 8:00 pm
Where: Museum Dr. Guislain
Free registration HERE
Transformation/ Noelle Coelho
Title: Memory, Art and Resistance: Gender-Based Violence in the Favelas of Maré
The talk will aim to reflect on the relation between memory, art, and resistance based on the experiences of women affected by gender-based violence in Maré. Maré is the largest group of favelas in the state of Rio de Janeiro, with approximately 140 thousand people, mostly black (62.1%) and female (51%), distributed across sixteen favelas. In terms of population, Maré is the ninth most populous neighbourhood in the city of Rio de Janeiro and, in size, is larger than 96% of Brazilian municipalities. Although located in the heart of the city, Maré has one of the worst Human Development Indexes (HDI) in Brazil. For this exchange, the trajectory and outcomes of different projects that have been implemented with women affected by violence in Maré, through partnerships between universities and civil society organisations, between 2018 and 2023, will be presented. The projects, in which women played a central role at all stages, raised subjects such as ancestry and memory, colonial heritage and institutional violence, intersectionalities of race, gender and sexuality, resistance strategies and art. Through this exchange, we hope to think together about the political place of memory in the construction of multiple processes of resistance.
Bio:
Noelle Coelho Resende has a PhD in law and is a psychoanalyst who dedicates herself to working in the field of care and institutional violence. Inspired by the work of Fernand Deligny, she is interested in thinking about care from a territorial, cartographic and collective perspective. In recent years, she has worked on different projects with women affected by gender-based violence. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Ministry of Health/Brazil), involved in participatory projects to develop health initiatives in vulnerabilised territories. With 15 years' experience in the field of human rights protection and state violence, she was president of the Human Rights Council of the State of Rio de Janeiro, participated in the monitoring of the National Truth Commission and was responsible for the investigation on Torture and Deprivation of Liberty in the Subcommission of Truth of the state of Rio de Janeiro.
Practical Info:
When: 9 NOV - 8:00 pm
Where: Museum Dr. Guislain
Free registration HERE