CFP: The Anatomy of Un/Reason: The Birth of Mental Illness and its Fate in Postmodern Culture

Call for Presentations: The Anatomy of Un/Reason: The Birth of Mental Illness and its Fate in Postmodern Culture
October 10-11, 2014 Kraków, Poland
We wish to invite you to attend the International Interdisciplinary Symposium The Anatomy of Un/Reason: The Birth of Mental Illness and its Fate in Postmodern Culture, during which we would like to discuss the aforementioned topics. Our aim is to exchange thoughts on the phenomenon of madness in modern and postmodern times. The Symposium is planned as an interdisciplinary project; one which shall outline the contexts as widely as possible. Hence, next to representatives of literary and cultural studies, we would like to invite scholars of various other backgrounds as well, including psychology, psychiatry, sociology, and religious studies. We intend to look into differe nt texts of culture which make mental illness their subject, and to analyse the works of authors afflicted with particular mental disorders. We encourage you to present studies and varied attempts at conceptualization of the phenomenon of madness, regardless of methodology, methodological instruments, or field of scientific interest, since our goal is to draw from varied contextual fields and perspectives: political-legal, sociocultural, pop cultural, religious, ethical, philosophical, anthropological-psychiatric, cognitivist, neuropsychiatric, as well as psychology of art and clinical psychology.
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