{"id":7420,"date":"2022-01-26T17:31:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T22:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/?post_type=event&#038;p=7420"},"modified":"2022-02-23T18:03:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T23:03:47","slug":"willful-subjects-decolonizing-the-psychiatric-institution","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/willful-subjects-decolonizing-the-psychiatric-institution\/","title":{"rendered":"Willful Subjects*: Decolonizing the Psychiatric Institution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rQHHKCg9YLo\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Live transcription is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.streamtext.net\/player?event=BCRW_Captions\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This panel explores Institutional histories of psychiatry, focused on anti-institutional movements, radical institution-building, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and alternate approaches to psychic life <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by practitioners and clinicians challenging the use of mental health systems as sites of state power, political oppression, and psychic violence.\u00a0 Our conversation will thread together case studies from the United States, China, France, and Palestine with: Liat Ben Moshe, author of<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2020); Emily Ng, author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2020); Camille Robcis, author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2021); and Lara Sheehi, co &#8211; author with Stephen Sheehi of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2022), reflecting on the power of collective imagination, willful subjectivity, and witnessing as forms of resistance.\u00a0<\/span><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*Title references Sara Ahmed\u2019s <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Willful Subjects<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2014).\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button warning radius\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/willful-subjects-decolonizing-the-psychiatric-institution-tickets-256423488557\">ATTEND<\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Conference Detail<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/living-in-madness-decolonization-creation-healing\/\">47th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference<\/a> organized by BCRW is entitled &#8220;Living in Madness: Decolonization, Creation, Healing.&#8221; The conference will be virtual and sessions will take place over a period of weeks from February to April, 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This conference will explore experiences of madness, disability, survival, and refusal<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through the frameworks of mad studies, disability justice, and artistic practice. <\/span>Scholars, artists, activists, and practitioners will interrogate structures of medicalization and institutionalization, engaging in <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dialogue about the entanglement of psy-disciplines with colonial and nation-building projects predicated on scientific racism, misogyny, xenophobia, transphobia, and eugenics. We ask how structural violence has both created maddening conditions and established the terms by which survivors are pathologized, criminalized and alienated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the questions we want to explore are those posed by conference panelist Camille Robcis in her intellectual history of institutional psychotherapy, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2021), specifically how movements that have attempted to decolonize and otherwise contest the practices of psychiatry can provide us with frameworks to understand our own positioning vis-\u00e0-vis \u201cthe permanence of extreme-right movements, fascisms real and \u2018in our heads,\u2019 still spreading and gaining force throughout the world.\u201d We take inspiration as well from our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z8ub-pHRvTM&amp;t=1s\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fall 2021 event with La Marr Jurelle Bruce<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, whose critical discourse about madness encompasses unruliness, radical creativity, and rage in the face of systems that have used the concept of Blackness as disability to foreclose the possibilities of Black freedom. Our conference dialogues will also engage calls for intersectional approaches to abolition and decarceralization address disability and madness, and the imperative to center the experiences of indigenous and Palestinian people resisting psychic oppression while living under occupation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The impetus for this conference comes as we collectively persist while a virus has exposed structural violence and inadequacy of <\/span>profit-based systems of care<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and we are also confronted with increased ecological fragility. We are now understandably asking questions about the shakiness of human experience, and how to reckon with what might be called \u201cunlivable states of mind.\u201d War, ecological destruction, land dispossession, occupation and policing, precarious access to shelter, and confinement in a total institution are among the conditions that are maddening, and yet upheld by powerful schemas that place value on profit, property, and hierarchy over collective wellbeing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gathering together, we explore potential modes of healing. Like seeds we plant without knowing which will root, we pursue collectivity and creativity in order to keep living.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About the Speakers<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><b>Liat Ben-Moshe<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an interdisciplinary scholar-activist working at the intersection of disability\/madness, incarceration\/decarceration and abolition. She is the author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (University of Minnesota Press 2020) and co-editor of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disability Incarcerated <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Palgrave 2014). Dr. Ben-Moshe is an Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For more: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liatbenmoshe.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.liatbenmoshe.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><b>Emily Ng<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is Term Assistant Professor in Asian &amp; Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, Columbia University, and a member of the RURALIMAGINATIONS project at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam. Her work, ethnographic and otherwise, touches on madness between grammars of spirit mediumship and psychiatry, loss and cosmic reverberations of sovereignty, and political temporalities and aesthetics of rurality in China. She is author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (University of California Press, 2020).\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ann Pellegrini<\/strong> is Professor of Performance Studies and Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU.\u00a0They are the author of\u00a0<i>Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race<\/i>\u00a0(Routledge, 1997); co-author, with Janet R. Jakobsen, of\u00a0<i>Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance<\/i>\u00a0(NYU Press, 2003; Beacon Press, 2004); and co-author, with Michael Bronski and Michael Amico,\u00a0<i>of \u201cYou Can Tell Just By Looking\u201d and 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People<\/i> (Beacon Press, 2013).\u00a0Pellegrini has published two anthologies:\u00a0<i>Queer Theory and the Jewish Question<\/i>, co-edited with Daniel Boyarin and Danial Itzkovitz (Columbia University Press, 2003); and\u00a0<i>Secularisms<\/i>, co-edited with Janet R. Jakobsen (Duke University Press, 2008). She is founding co-editor, with Jos\u00e9 Mu\u00f1oz, of the \u201cSexual Cultures\u201d Series, at New York University Press, which she now co-edits with Joshua Chambers-Letson and Tavia Nyong\u2019o. Pellegrini is a licensed psychoanalyst. They and Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou received the first Tiresias Paper Award, in 2021, from the International Psychoanalytic Association for their co-written paper: \u201cA feminine boy: normative investments and reparative fantasy at the intersections of gender, race, and religion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Camille Robcis <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is Professor of French and History at Columbia University.\u00a0 She specializes in Modern European History with an emphasis on gender and sexuality, France, and intellectual, cultural, and legal history.\u00a0 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, 2013) and of Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in France (Chicago, 2021). She has received fellowships from the Penn Humanities Forum, LAPA (Princeton Law and Public Affairs), the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. She is currently working on a new book tentatively titled The Gender Question: Populism, National Reproduction, and the Crisis of Representation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Lara Sheehi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, PsyD (she\/hers), is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the George Washington University&#8217;s Professional Psychology Program. She teaches decolonial, liberatory and anti-oppressive theories and approaches to clinical treatment, case conceptualization, and community consultation. She is the president-elect of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (APA Division 39), and the chair of the Teachers&#8217; Academy of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is co-editor of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Studies in Gender and Sexuality <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and co-editor of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CounterSpace<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Lara is on the advisory board to the USA\u2013Palestine Mental Health Network and Psychoanalysis for Pride. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of the book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Routledge, 2022).<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Accessibility<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Live transcription and ASL interpretation will be provided. Please email any additional access needs to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:skreitzb@barnard.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">skreitzb@barnard.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This event is free and open to all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The event will stream on BCRW&#8217;s YouTube Channel. RSVP to receive a link to the livestream closer to the date of the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Image Detail<\/strong><\/h5>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/return-to-nature-2.jpeg\" height=\"734\" width=\"1000\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7421 imgix-fluid alignnone\" alt=\"Alt: View through perforated metal panel showing modern buildings with bird silhouettes in the sky.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/return-to-nature-2.webp 1000w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/return-to-nature-2-300x220.webp 300w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/return-to-nature-2-768x564.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> <\/div>\n<div><em>Rather than simply renovate the Israeli military for another function, our project aims to accelerate the process of its destruction and disintegration, no longer used by humans, and instead \u201creturned to nature.&#8221;<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Credit<\/span><\/div>\n<div>Oush Grab: Return to Nature, 2008<br \/>\nDAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency)<br \/>\nPhotomontage: Sara Pellegrini<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of the 47th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference, &#8220;Living in Madness,&#8221; this panel explores institutional histories of psychiatry, focused on anti-institutional movements, radical institution-building, and alternate approaches to psychic life by practitioners and clinicians challenging the use of mental health systems as sites of state power, political oppression, and psychic violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7431,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-7420","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/7420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/7420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7432,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/7420\/revisions\/7432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}