Madness, Citizenship and Social Justice: A Human Rights Conference at Simon Fraser University

Psycho Magazine, May 1996

Courtesy of
Erick Fabris

Pride Day

Courtesy of Lilith Finkler

Psycho Magazine, May 1995

Courtesy of
Erick Fabris

Preliminary Program

THURSDAY, JUNE 12TH
12:00 - 1:00 pm	Delegates Arrive. On-Site Registration
1:00 - 1:15 pm	Welcome, Introductions and Acknowledgments. Room 1900 Robert Menzies, Conference Chair Paul Budra, SFU Associate Dean of Arts and Social Sciences Anne-Marie Feenberg-Dibon, Director, SFU Institute for the Humanities
1:15 - 2:30 pm	Plenary Lecture. Room 1900 David Oaks, MindFreedom International Prospects for a Nonviolent Revolution in the Mental Health System During a Time of Psychiatric Globalization (Robert Menzies, Moderator)
2:30 - 2:45 pm	Refreshment Break. Concourse
2:45 - 4:30 pm	Session 1. Room 1425 Rehabilitating ‘The System’: Global Stories of Regulation, Recovery and Empowerment: Wearing, Davis, Stefancic, De Vito. Chair: M. Jackson	Session 2. Room 1900 Feminist Dialogues on Women, Madness, Language and Power: Ussher, Roman, Teghtsoonian, Nicki. Chair: Chunn	Session 3. Room 7000 Criminological Madness: Dowse & Baldry, Mosoff, Metzl, Fitzgibbon. Chair: Chan
4:30 - 6:00 pm	Reception. Gallery Gachet, 88 East Cordova Street Sponsored by the Social Justice and Citizenship Working Group, SFU Institute for the Humanities Welcoming remarks by Adrienne Burk, Irwin Oostindie & Cherise Clarke [An assortment of hot and cold fare, along with beverages, will be served. A cash bar will be available.]
7:00 - 10:00 pm	Evening Program: A Night of Mad Culture. Room 1900 Comedy Players: Stand Up for Mental Health (David Granirer, Moderator) Documentary Premiere: Little Brother BIG PHARMA (David Heine, Director) Mad People’s History Play: Tied Together (Friendly Spike Theatre Band) Emcee: Cherise Clarke
FRIDAY, JUNE 13TH
8:30 – 10:15 am	Session 4. Room 2270 Women’s Narratives of Psychiatry, Gender, Race, Subjugation and Survival: V. Jackson, Proctor, Clark-Wittenberg (read by Weitz), Kwok. Chair: Morrow, Chair	Session 5. Room 7000 Making ‘Mad’ Laws I: Legal Rights, Human Rights and History: Costa, Minkowitz, Jones. Chair: K. White	Session 6. Room 1700 Rethinking ‘Mental Illness’: Arrigo, Beresford (via video), Douglas, Mandlis. Chair: Moore
10:15 – 10:45 am	Refreshment Break. Concourse
10:45 am – 12:30 pm	Session 7. Room 2270 Psychiatric Discrimination as Social Injustice: Fabris, Carten, LeFrançois, Vogt. Chair: Schneider	Session 8. HC 7000 Making ‘Mad’ Laws II: Socio-legal Representations of Madness, Danger and Crime: Dallaire, Arrigo, Warme, Loughnan. Chair: K. White	Session 9. Room 1700 aking Recovery Seriously: McCubbin, Hamer, Green, Redler (via televideo). Chair: Davis
12:30 – 1:45 pm	Lunch Break (On Own) Lunchtime Dialogue: Room 2270 Creating an Alliance on Mental Rights and Freedoms in Canada. Facilitators: Rob Wipond & Erick Fabris Lunchtime Film Screening: Room 1700 Crazy About Laurel House Director: Monique Cartesan (55 minutes) Presented in collaboration with Gallery Gachet and the 2008 World Mad Pride Biennale, One Flew West: Old Landmarks, New Topographies
1:45 – 3:30 pm	Session 10. Room 2270 Madness on the Streets, and in the Suites (Metcalf, Fabris, Finkler, Klassen). (Patton, Chair)	Session 11. Room 7000 Cultural Studies in Madness, Identity and Citizenship: Keane, Caffrey, Voronka. Chair: RR. Stackhouse Presented in collaboration with Gallery Gachet and the 2008 World Mad Pride Biennale, One Flew West: Old Landmarks, New Topographies	Session 12. Room 1700 sychopolitics Reconsidered: Reflections on the Anti-Psychiatry Movement: Zaslove, McCarron, A. White, Ingram. Chair: Douglas
3:30 – 4:00 pm	Refreshment Break. Concourse
4:00 – 5:45 pm	Session 13. Room 2270 After the Kirby Report: A Critical Dialogue: White; Wipond; Boschma & Smye; Kilty, Dell, Acoose, Blunderfield & Desjarlais. Moderator: Morrow	Session 14. Room 7000 Film Screening and Community Conversation. Pictures of Self-Harm: Tabobondung, Regier, Fillmore)	Session 15. Room 1700 Governing Mentalities in the Pacific Northwest: McKay, Allen, Kovalesky, Anaïs. Chair: Burk
5:45 - 7:00 pm	Dinner Break
7:30 pm	Film Screenings. Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe Street Titicut Follies Screening (Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe Street). Special Guest in Attendance: Frederick Wiseman
SATURDAY, JUNE 14TH
8:30 – 10:15 am	Session 16. HC 2270 Contesting Sanism I: Political Strategizing for the 21st Century:Shantz, Lewis, Liegghio and Pollack. Chair: Ingram, Chair	Session 17. HC 7000 Neither Bad nor Mad ... But Getting Angry! (Panel): Pate (Moderator), Kilroy, Neve, Lamont	Session 18. HC 170 The Politics of Diagnosis I: Kirk, Warme, Bowden. Chair: LeFrançois
10:15 – 10:45 am	Refreshment Break. HC Concourse
10:45 am – 12:30 pm	Session 19. HC 2270 Contesting Sanism II: The Psychiatric Survivor as Active Citizen: Wipond, Sumilas, R. Diamond. Chair: Reaume	Session 20.Session 20. HC 7000 Neither Bad nor Mad ... But Getting Angry! (Workshop): Pate (Moderator), Kilroy, Neve, Lamont	Session 21. HC 1700 The Politics of Diagnosis II: Andersch and Barfi, Godderis, Liegghio. Chair: Kendall
12:30 – 1:45 pm	Lunch Break (On Own) Film Screening. Room 1700 Cracking Up:David Granirer, Facilitator (48 minutes) Film Screening: Room 2270 Psychiatry’s Gonna Die: Don Weitz, Facilitator (31 minutes)
1:45 – 3:30 pm	Session 22. Room 2270 END ELECTROSHOCK NOW: Contemporary Resistance Against Electroshock in Canada: Workshop Facilitators, Weitz, S. Diamond	Session 23. Room 7000 Trends in the Treatment and Governance of Psychiatric Afflictions in the Criminal Justice System: Barron, Kendall and Proctor, Moore and Donohue, Gulayets. Convenor/Chair: Lacombe	Session 24. Room 1700 Reflections on the ‘Redevelopment’ of Riverview Psychiatric Hospital: Morrow (Moderator), Pederson, Lesage, Josewski, Smith, Battersby, Jamer Presented in collaboration with Gallery Gachet and the 2008 World Mad Pride Biennale, One Flew West: Old Landmarks, New Topographies
3:30 – 4:00 pm	Refreshment Break. Concourse
4:00 – 5:45 pm	Session 25. Room 2270 “GAM” – A Global Approach to Psychiatric Medication for Individual and Collective Transformation: Workshop Facilitators: Rodriguez del Barrio & Cyr	Session 26. Room 7000 Film Screening & Dialogue: Hearing [Our] Voices: A Participatory Study on Schizophrenia and Homelessness: Arney, Schneider (Moderator)	Session 27. Room 1700 Roundtable. The Legacy of Titicut Follies: Zaslove (Moderator), Clarke, Druick, Koritar, Karlinsky, Menzies, Wiseman
5:45 - 7:00 pm	Dinner Break
7:30 – 9:30 pm	An Evening With Frederick Wiseman (Fletcher Challenge Theatre) (Sharon McGowan, Introduction)
SUNDAY, JUNE 15TH
9:00 – 10:45 am	Session 28. Room 2270 Crazy on the Inside: Workshop Facilitators: Marple & S. Diamond	Session 29. Room 1600 Human Rights and Socio-Legal Order in the Mental Health Complex: Boyle, Patton, Daley, Johnson. Chair: Brockman	Session 30. Room 1700 Prison Psychiatry and Human Rights: Proctor and Kendall, Kaushik, Kilty, Sapers. Chair: De Vito
10:45 – 11:15 am	Refreshment Break. Concourse
11:15 am – 1:00 pm	Session 31. Room 2270 Workshop. Fight Back Against the Mental Health System: Oleson & Wulwik. Moderator: Allen	Session 32. Room 1600 Toward a Critical History of Madness: Reaume, Kendall, Usar, Starkman and Reaume. Chair: McKay
1:00 pm	Conference Concludes