CFP closing 20 Sep, History of Psychiatry Conference, Paris, 4-6 Mar 2027, (fee-free)
Who Cares? History of psychiatry in the English-speaking world: Circulations and transfers is the third and final session in this conference series on the history of psychiatry in the English-speaking world, to be held 4–6 March 2027 at Paris Nanterre. Note there is no registration fee for this conference.
Confirmed keynote speakers: David Wright (McGill University), Sloan Mahone (University of Oxford).
Proposals are invited from PhD students, early-career researchers, and established scholars, addressing “Circulations & Transfers” submitted by 20 September 2026.
Topics may include (but are not limited to): “Getting out of the Asylum” : physical transfer and circulations of patients between institutions and other places of care and/or going back home; Transfers of patients and/or staff initiated in times of crisis or emergency e. g. wartime conditions; Circulation of professionals/staff from one institution to another / other places of care or confinement; Circulation of external visitors in and out of institutions (18th-19th-century asylum tourism, journalistic practices, visits from friends and relatives, etc.); Circulation of ideas and theories on the treatment of mental illness and diagnostic categories; Circulation of clinical practices and therapeutic techniques; role of translation and language in psychiatry at an international level; Material histories of psychiatry (circulating objects, drugs, devices, archives); Resistance, failure, distortion in the reception and adaptation of ideas/practices; construction of local/regional/national/international networks (e.g. international organisations, congresses etc.); The politics of dissemination of psychiatric knowledge (media, publishing); Colonial and postcolonial circulations of psychiatric knowledge and institutions; Influence of political opinions on psychiatric practices: no-restraint, therapeutic communities, anti-psychiatry, care in the community
