HCA Graduate Research Day
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
No booking required
Programme
Presentations are approximately twenty minutes and a ten-minute slot for questions and discussion follows each panel
1.00-1.15 Tea/coffee. Introduction (Adam Shapiro)
1.15-2.05 Ideas about idiocy in the 19th century
Chair: Jerry White
Belief, opinion or knowledge? Competing currents of thought in the trial of Pierre Joseph Deléphine, imbecile arsonist, Paris 1825.
Simon Jarrett
An entertainment a day keeps the monotony at bay. Occupation and entertainment in the long-stay imbecile asylum.
Stef Eastoe
Questions and discussion
2.05-3.35 The power of the symbolic text
Chair: Brodie Waddell
A re-evaluation of the textual strategies of Marinus and Porphyry in re-presenting their teachers or 'You are invited to join a Neoplatonic student community'.
Rosalind Diana Pulvermacher
The 1311 Cavalry-tax Protest: reading a civilian response to Mamluk Fiscal policies in 14th century Damascus .
Rasmus Bech Olsen
Romans 13, conscience and resistance.
Calum Wright
The institutionalisation of the medieval Inquisition
Derek Hill
Questions and discussion
3.35-3.55 Tea/coffee
3.55-4.45 Abnormalising and controlling the mind during WW2 and early post-war period
Chair: Julia Lovell
'Abnormal Conditioning:' William Sargant and wartime psychiatry
Charlie Williams
The 'abnormalisation' of the psychotic? Life inside wartime mental hospitals, 1939-1945
Hazel Croft
Questions and discussion
4.45-5.00 Closing remarks
Contact name:
Jana Kakosova
Contact phone:
020 3073 8093