Welcome, Introductions and Acknowledgments

1:00 – 1:15 pm

• Robert Menzies, Conference Chair
• Paul Budra, SFU Associate Dean of Arts and Social Sciences
• Anne-Marie Feenberg-Dibon, Director, SFU Institute for the Humanities

Prospects for a Nonviolent Revolution in the Mental Health System During a Time of Psychiatric Globalization

1:00 – 1:15 pm

• Robert Menzies, Conference Chair
• Paul Budra, SFU Associate Dean of Arts and Social Sciences
• Anne-Marie Feenberg-Dibon, Director, SFU Institute for the Humanities

Rehabilitating ‘The System’: Global Stories of Regulation, Recovery and Empowerment

2:45 – 4:30 pm

• Margaret Jackson, Chair
• Michael Wearing. Professional Governance and Psychiatric Knowledge in Australian Mental Health Practice – Examining Discourses of Recovery and Consumerism in the Health Care Professions
• Simon Davis. The “Recovery” Vision and Risk-Aversion in Psychiatric Service Delivery: Thoughts on the Reconciliation of Competing Perspectives
• Ana Stefancic. The Role of Non-Profit Social Service Agencies in Enhancing Citizenship for Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities
• Daniela De Vito. Who Belongs as Citizens? The Realities of Refugees and Asylum Seekers with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Feminist Dialogues on Women, Madness, Language and Power

2:45 – 4:30 pm

• Dorothy Chunn, Chair
• Jane M. Ussher. The Construction and Regulation of Women’s Madness: Managing the Monstrous Feminine
• Leslie Roman. In/visible: Indivisible?: Barriers, Accommodations and Epistemic Rightful Places
• Katherine Teghtsoonian. Responding to Depression in the Workplace and Beyond: A Feminist Analysis of Discourse and Policy
• Andrea Nicki. Rethinking Female ‘Personality Disorders’: Recovering Moral Agency

Criminological Madness

2:45 – 4:30 pm

• Wendy Chan, Chair
• Leanne Dowse and Eileen Baldry. Turning the Key: Conceptualising the Community/Corrections Continuum for People with Mental Health Disorders in the Criminal Justice System
• Judith Mosoff. Mental Health Courts in the Criminal Justice System: Substantive Equality, Coercion or Paternalism
• Jonathan M. Metzl. Protest Psychosis: Race, Stigma, and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia
• Diana Wendy Fitzgibbon. Pre-Emptive Criminalisation and Black Mentally Ill People

Conference Reception

4:30 – 6:30 pm

• 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.]

Evening Program: A Night of Mad Culture (Fletcher Challenge Theatre, HC 1900)

7:00 – 10:00 pm

• Cherise Clarke, Emcee
• 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)

Women’s Narratives of Psychiatry, Gender, Race, Subjugation and Survival

8:30 – 10:15 am

• Marina Morrow, Chair
• Vanessa Jackson. In Our Own Voice: African-American Stories of Oppression, Survival and Recovery
• Dorothy Proctor. Madness, Citizenship and Social Justice: My Story
• Sue Clark-Wittenberg. The Sue Clark Story: “Behind The Locked Ward” (read by Don Weitz)
• Caroline Fei-Yeng Kwok. Madness: The Experience of an Immigrant Woman

Making ‘Mad’ Laws I: Legal Rights, Human Rights and History

8:30 – 10:15 am

• Kimberley White, Chair
• Lucy Costa. Psychiatric Patient Rights and the Politics of “Progress”
• Tina Minkowitz. The Emergence of a User/Survivor Perspective in International Human Rights Law
• Tiffany F. Jones. Murderers, Madmen and Practitioners: The Legacy of Apartheid on South Africa’s Mental Health and Criminal Justice System

Rethinking ‘Mental Illness’

8:30 – 10:15 am

• Dawn Moore, Chair
• Bruce Arrigo. Justice and the Representation of Mental Illness: On Power, Desire, and Culture in Ultramodern Society
• Peter Beresford. Developing a Social Model of Madness and Distress: Reconnecting Madness, Citizenship and Social Justice
• Helen Douglas. Stranger Neighbours
• Lane Robert Mandlis. Madness as ‘Choice’: The State of Exception, Responsibilization, and the Political Sphere

Psychiatric Discrimination as Social Injustic

10:45 am – 12:30 pm

• Barbara Schneider, Chair
• Erick Fabris. Not Ill or Mad?
• Ronald Carten. The Citizen Transformed: Psychiatrization’s Effects on the Social Status of the Individual
• Brenda LeFrançois. Power Relations and User Involvement in Child Psychiatry
• Chris Vogt. Why am I so Mad?

Making ‘Mad’ Laws II: Socio-legal Representations of Madness, Danger and Crime

10:45 am – 12:30 pm

• Kimberley White, Chair
• Bernadette Dallaire. “What to do with ‘them’?” Treatment, Control and Rehabilitation as Social “Solutions” with Regard to Mental Illness and the Mentally Ill
• Bruce Arrigo. Towards a Critical Penology of the Mentally Ill Offender: On Law, Ideology, and the Logic of Competency
• Gordon Warme. How the Myth of Schizophrenia is Used to Confine the Mad Against Their Will
• Arlie Loughnan. Reason, Responsibility and Judgment: Mental Incapacity Defences in Criminal Law

Taking Recovery Seriously

10:45 am – 12:30 pm

• Simon Davis, Chair
• Michael McCubbin. To Dynamically Integrate Power and Empowerment, Social Inclusion, and Recovery: A Systemic, Teleological Approach
• Helen P. Hamer. Mental Health Service Users as Citizens in a Recovery Paradigm: The Implications for Mental Health Nursing Practice
• Larry Green. Trauma: The Emperor with no Clothes (What Trauma Reveals about Main Stream Culture)
• Leon Redler. We All Go Astray

Lunchtime Dialogue

12:30 – 1:45 pm

• Creating an Alliance on Mental Rights and Freedoms in Canada (Rob Wipond and Erick Fabris, Facilitators)

Film Screening

12:30 – 1:45 pm

• Crazy About Laurel House (Monique Cartesan, Director)
• (Presented in collaboration with Gallery Gachet and the 2008 World Mad Pride Biennale, One Flew West: Old Landmarks, New Topographies)

Madness on the Streets, and in the Suites

1:45 – 3:30 pm

• Lora M. Patton, Chair
• Elizabeth Metcalf. The Revolving Door: Institutionalization after Deinstitutionalization
• Erick Fabris. Poison or Prison? Your Choice: Community Treatment Orders as Chemical Incarceration in Ontario Psychiatric Survivor Experience
• Lilith Finkler. Psychiatric Survivor Human Rights at the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB)
• Amy Lynn Klassen. Do Albertans Socially Reject Psychiatric Patients and their Families?

Cultural Studies in Madness, Identity and Citizenship

1:45 – 3:30 pm

• RuthRuth Stackhouse, Chair
• Tim Keane. Out of Ward Seven and Into the Mirror City: Metaphors Beyond Normality in the Fiction of Janet Framw
• Tara Caffrey. We are Still Mad about the Mad in San Francisco
• Jiji Voronka. Bipolar Britney: Spear(s)heading Diagnosis Through Media Monitoring

Psychopolitics Reconsidered: Reflections on the Anti-Psychiatry Movement

1:45 – 3:30 pm

• Helen Douglas, Chair
• Jerald Zaslove. Looking Backward – But How Far Backward? - A Personal View of the Origins of the Anti-Institutional ’Sixties and their Aftermath ...
• Gary McCarron. ‘Talking it Through’: Mental Illness and Emancipatory Discourse
• Andrea White. A Patient Rereading of the Italian Psychiatric Reform: Franco Basaglia and the Therapeutic Community at Gorizia
• Richard A. Ingram. Madness and Political Strategy: Capitalism and Schizophrenia Revisited

After the Kirby Report: A Critical Dialogue

4:00 – 5:45 pm

• Marina Morrow, Chair
• Kimberley White. Out of the Shadows and Into the Spotlight: The Politics of (In)visibility and the Implementation of the Mental Health Commission of Canada
• Rob Wipond. A “Patient-Centred” Way towards Ignoring Patient Rights -- The Kirby Report’s Dismissal of Legal Concerns and Psychiatric Survivor Perspectives
• Geertje Boschma and Vicky Smye. Diversity of Voices: Will it Make a Difference?
• Jennifer M. Kilty, Colleen Dell, Sharon Acoose, Debbie Blunderfield, and Val Desjarlais. Positioning the Voices of First Nations Women: The Impact of Stigma in Our Healing Journeys from Illicit Drug Abuse

Film Screening and Community Conversation. Pictures of Self-Harm

4:00 – 5:45 pm

• Crossing Communities Art Project
• Community Discussion Led by Tonya Tabobondung, Edith Regier, and Cathy Fillmore

Governing Mentalities in the Pacific Northwest

4:00 – 5:45 pm

• Adrienne Burk, Chair
• Kathryn McKay. Before the Cuckoo’s Nest: Madness and Traditional Healing in the Ethnographic Record
• Arthur Allen. Architectural Function and the Early Mental Hospitals of Western Canada
• Andrea Kovalesky. Factors Influencing the Role of Nurses in Washington State Over the Last 40 Years Towards Persons with Serious Mental Illness
• Seantel Anaïs. State of Terminal Exception: Biopolitics, Bare Life and the State of Exception at Vancouver International Airport

Titicut Follies & Juvenile Court

7:00pm

• Special Guest in Attendance: Frederick Wiseman

Contesting Sanism I: Political Strategizing for the 21st Century

8:30 – 10:15 am

• Richard Ingram, Chair
• Jeffrey Shantz. Madness, Anarchy: Autonomous Organizing, Self-Determination and the Coming Communities
• Lydia Lewis. Mental Health and Human Rights: A Common Agenda for User/Survivor and Women’s Groups?
• Maria Liegghio and Shoshana Pollack. Conversations with a Criminalized Mind

Neither Bad nor Mad ... But Getting Angry! (Part I: Panel)

8:30 – 10:15 am

• Kim Pate, Moderator
• Debbie Kilroy
• Lisa Neve
• Christine Lamont

The Politics of Diagnosis I

8:30 – 10:15 am

• Brenda LeFrançois, Chair
• Stuart A. Kirk. From Freud’s Science of Dreams to the DSM’s Dreams of Science
• Gordon Warme. The Eternal Illusion: A Brief History of Psychiatric Causality
• Greg Bowden. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: What is the Meaning of Self-Control?

Contesting Sanism II: The Psychiatric Survivor as Active Citizen

10:45 am – 12:30 pm

• Geoffrey Reaume, Chair
• Rob Wipond. News Media and the Psychiatric Survivor Perspective
• Kathleen Sumilas. My Experience as a First Time Advocate/Activist
• J.T. Sandhu, AKA Ruby Diamond. The Dignity of the Mad

Neither Bad nor Mad ... But Getting Angry! (Part II: Workshop)

10:45 am – 12:30 pm

• Kim Pate, Moderator
• Debbie Kilroy
• Lisa Neve
• Christine Lamont

The Politics of Diagnosis II

10:45 am – 12:30 pm

• Kathleen Kendall, Chair
• orbert Andersch and David Barfi. A Psychopathological Revolution: The ‘Matrix-Model’
• Rebecca Godderis. Risky Moms: Psychiatric Discourse about Postpartum Depression
• Maria Liegghio. Madness Never Dies: Death, Dying, and Bereavement Under the DSM

Cracking Up

12:30 – 1:45 pm

• David Granirer, Facilitator

Psychiatry’s Gonna Die

12:30 – 1:45 pm

• Don Weitz, Facilitator

Workshop. END ELECTROSHOCK NOW: Contemporary Resistance Against Electroshock in Canada

1:45 – 3:30 pm

• Don Weitz, Co-Moderator
• Shaindl Diamond, Co-Moderator

Trends in the Treatment and Governance of Psychiatric Afflictions in the Criminal Justice System

1:45 – 3:30 pm

• Dany Lacombe, Convenor/Chair
• Christie Barron. Rehabilitating Violent Girls in the Age of Risk
• Michael Gulayets. Everyday Forms of Resistance in a Forensic Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic
• Kathleen Kendall and Dorothy Proctor. Testing the Limits of Justice: Human Experimentation in Canadian Prisons I
• Dawn Moore and Erin Donohue. Consuming Justice: When Criminal Offenders become Pathological Clients

Reflections on the ‘Redevelopment’ of Riverview Psychiatric Hospital

1:45 – 3:30 pm

• Presented in collaboration with Gallery Gachet and the 2008 World Mad Pride Biennale, One Flew West: Old Landmarks, New Topographies
• Marina Morrow, Convenor
• Ann Pederson
• Alain Lesage
• Viviane Josewski
• Jules Smith
• Lupin Battersby
• Brenda Jamer

Workshop. “GAM” – A Global Approach to Psychiatric Medication for Individual and Collective Transformation

4:00 – 5:45 pm

• Lourdes Rodriguez del Barrio
• Céline Cyr

Film Screening and Dialogue: Hearing [Our] Voices: A Participatory Study on Schizophrenia and Homelessness

4:00 – 5:45 pm

• Barbara Schneider, Moderator
• Laurie Arney

Roundtable. The Legacy of Titicut Follies

4:00 – 5:45 pm

• Jerald Zaslove, Moderator
• Cherise Clarke
• Zoë Druick
• Endre Koritar
• Harry Karlinsk
• Robert Menzies
• Frederick Wiseman

An Evening With Frederick Wiseman (Fletcher Challenge Theatre, HC 1900)

7:30 – 9:30 pm

• Sharon McGowan, Introduction

Workshop. Crazy on the Inside

9:00 – 10:45 am

• Les Marple, Co-Moderator
• Shaindl Diamond, Co-Moderator

Human Rights and Socio-Legal Order in the Mental Health Complex

9:00 – 10:45 am

• Joan Brockman, Chair
• Geraldine Boyle. The Mental Capacity Act in England and People with Dementia: From Madness to Citizenship?
• Lora M. Patton. “These Regulations Aren’t Just Here to Annoy You”: The Myth of Statutory Safeguards, Patient Rights and Charter Values in Ontario’s Mental Health System
• Andrea Daley. The Reconfiguration of Queer/Lesbian Sexuality by Service Provider Responses to Self-Disclosures
• Michael Johnson Jr. Criminalizing Sexual Deviancy: The ‘Queer’ Legacy of US Immigration Justice in Boutillier v. US

Prison Psychiatry and Human Rights

9:00 – 10:45 am

• Daniela De Vito, Chair
• Dorothy Proctor and Kathleen Kendall. Testing the Limits of Justice: Human Experimentation in Canadian Prisons II
• Anupma Kaushik. Human Right of Medical Care for Women Prisoners in India: A study of Jaipur Central Prison for Women
• Jennifer M. Kilty. Governance through Psychiatrization: Seroquel and the New Prison Order
• Howard Sapers. Human Rights and Corrections: A Prison Ombudsman’s Perspective

Workshop. Fight Back Against the Mental Health System

11:15 am – 1:00 pm

• Tom Allen, Moderator
• Lisa Wulwik
• Megan Oleson

Toward a Critical History of Madness

11:15 am – 1:00 pm

• Kathryn McKay, Chair
• Geoffrey Reaume. Mad Markers: The Politics of Remembering Mad People’s History
• Kathleen Kendall. Patient Experiences in Canada’s First ‘Laboratory for the Scientific Study of Criminal Insanity’
• Onar Usar. Psychiatrized Women Speak Out: Exercising Agency, Demanding Human Rights in Phoenix Rising
• Mel Starkman and Geoffrey Reaume. Mad Archivists and Mad People’s History: Psychiatric Survivor Archives, Toronto