Department of Culture and Global Studies
Kroghstraede 1
9220 Aalborg East
Phone: +45 9940 9208
Email: contact@cgs.aau.dk
VAT no: DK 29102384
Date: Thursday 28th – Friday 29th October 2010. Venue: The Utzon Center, Aalborg Denmark
28.10.2010 kl. 09.00 - 29.10.2010 kl. 18.00
Thursday 28th – Friday 29th
October 2010
The Utzon Center, Aalborg Denmark
This conference addresses various interconnections between psychiatry and society. It does so by focusing on how contemporary epidemics, diseases, illnesses and medical syndromes are related to cultural pathologies of the collective social body, and how the body politic is related to the transformation and social embedding of psychiatric thinking. The central research hypothesis guiding the conference is that contemporary epidemics are to be analysed in the light of radical changes in our civilization and of the social hegemonization of the biomedical and psychiatric perspective. A particular focus of the conference is the role of humanities and social sciences, particularly sociology, philosophy and anthropology, in helping to understand the connection between social transformations and psychiatric perceptions of health & well-being.
The conference brings together a panel of international experts to address these themes. Amongst our keynote speakers are:
Danish Centre for Philosophy and Science Studies, the working group on Psychiatry & Society, Department of Sociology, Social Work and Organization, Aalborg University, Denmark, and the School of Sociology & Philosophy, UCC, Ireland.
Thursday:
09.00-11.15 Registration: Coffee and Tea will be served
11.15-11.30 Opening address
11.30-12.45 Keynote Speaker: Richard Wilkinson 'Social Pathologies and Inequality'
12.45-13.30 Lunch Break
13.45-16.00 Paper sessions – 3 parallel of 4 papers each
16.15-17.30 Keynote Speaker: Alain Ehrenberg ‘On the Notion of Social Pathology’
17.30-17.45 Coffee and Tea Break
17.45-19.00 Keynote Speaker: Charles Medawar ‘Intimations of Pharmageddon’
20.00 Dinner
Friday:
08.30-10.30 Paper sessions – 3 parallel of 4 papers each: Coffee and tea will be served.
10.45-12.00 Keynote Speaker: Gerda Reith ‘Pathological gambling and the excesses of
consumption’
12.00-12.45 Lunch Buffet
13.00-15.00 Paper sessions – 3 parallel of 4 papers each
15.15-17.00 Plenary: Harvie Ferguson and Arpad Szakolczai “The Social Pathologies of
Contemporary Civilization”
17.00-17.15 Coffee and Tea Break
17.15-18.15 Closing Keynote Speaker: Lennart Nørreklit ‘Social change, Precarity and Quality
of Life’
04.05.2018 at 10.15 AM - 04.05.2018 at 00.45 PM
Title: The Politics of Representation in Danish film: Struggles between Erasure and Presence
28.06.2018 - 29.06.2018
A crucial instrument of maintaining and extending papal authority in the Central Middle Ages was the ability of popes and the papal curia to effectively communicate with a wide and diverse range of peoples, institutions, and cultures.
04.07.2018 at 09.00 AM - 06.07.2018 at 05.00 PM
We are glad to announce that the 7th Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines Conference (CADAAD) will take place 4-6 July 2018 and will be hosted by Aalborg University, Denmark.
Department of Culture and Global Studies
Kroghstraede 1
9220 Aalborg East
Phone: +45 9940 9208
Email: contact@cgs.aau.dk
VAT no: DK 29102384
Fredrik Bajers Vej 5
P.O. Box 159 DK-9100 Aalborg
Denmark
Phone: +45 9940 9940
Mail: aau@aau.dk
CVRnr: 29102384
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