Topics + Participants

Preliminary Topics

The topics for keynote sessions, panels, workshops and other scheduled conference events will selectively include, but will not necessarily be confined to, the following areas:

Historical legacies of human rights and abuses
Advancing and entrenching human rights for users/survivors
Media representations and public perceptions of madness
Sanity and madness in literature, art and cinema
Gender, race, ethnicity, Aboriginality, sexuality, generation, (dis)ability and psychiatry
The new biological psychiatry
DSM-IV-TR, organized psychiatry and the classification of madness
The syndromization phenomenon
The psychiatrization of modern life
Psychiatric power and the ‘new legalism’
Regulating madness in the ‘risk society’
Trends in the treatment and governance of psychiatric affliction
Criminalizing madness
The legacy of the ‘deinstitutionalization’ movement
Back to the asylum?
Madness in the 21st century

Interim Participants List

Distinguished Guest:

Frederick Wiseman Filmmaker, Director

Presenters, Performers and Chairs:

Arthur Allen Architect and Author, West Vancouver, BC
Tom Allen Criminology, Kwantlen University College
Seantel Anaïs Sociology, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Norbert Andersch Maudsley Hospital (SLaM), London, England
Bruce A. Arrigo Criminal Justice, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Eileen Baldry Social Sciences and International Studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Lourdes Rodriguez del Barrio Social Work, Université de Montréal
Christie Barron Sociology, University of Calgary
Lupin Battersby Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Peter Beresford Centre for Citizen Participation, Brunel University
Greg Bowden Sociology, University of Alberta
Geraldine Boyle Health Studies, University of Bradford, England
Joan Brockman Criminology, Simon Fraser University
Tara Caffrey MSW Patients’ Right Advocate, San Francisco, CA
Ronald Carten Vancouver/Richmond Mental Health Network, Vancouver, BC
Linda Carter Friendly Spike Theatre Band, Toronto, Ontario
Monique Cartesan Filmmaker, Victoria, BC
Wendy Chan Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
Howard Hsueh-Hao Chiang History of Science, Princeton University, New Jersey
Dorothy E. Chunn Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
Sue Clark-Wittenberg Wittenberg Center to End Electroshock, Ottawa, Ontario
Lucy Costa Outreach Worker, Empowerment Council, CAMH, Toronto; Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto
Céline Cyr Social Work, Université de Montréal
Bernadette Dallaire Service social, Université Laval
Andrea Daley Social Work, York University
Simon Davis Vancouver Community Mental Health Services, and Social Work and Family Studies, University of British Columbia
Daniela De Vito Crucible Centre, Roehampton University
Shaindl Diamond Coalition Against Psychiatric Assault; Counselling Psychology, University of Toronto
Erin Donohue Law, Carleton University
Helen Douglas Philosophy in Practice, Kalk Bay, South Africa
Leanne Dowse Social Sciences and International Studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Zoë Druick Communication, Simon Fraser University
Erick Fabris Activist and Teacher, Toronto, Ontario
Cathy Fillmore Sociology, University of Winnipeg
Lilith Finkler Disabilities Advocate; Trudeau Scholar; School of Planning, Law, Dalhousie University
Diana Wendy Fitzgibbon Criminal Justice, Hertfordshire University, England
Rebecca Godderis Sociology, University of Calgary
David Granirer Founder, Stand Up for Mental Health, Vancouver, BC
Larry Green Faculty of Education and Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser University
Michael Gulayets Sociology, Grant MacEwan College
Helen P. Hamer Nursing, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Richard A. Ingram Disability Studies, Toronto, Ontario
Margaret Jackson Criminology, Simon Fraser University
Vanessa Jackson Healing Circles, Social Worker, Author, Atlanta, Georgia
Brenda Jamer Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Michael Johnson, Jr. Humanities and American Studies, Center for Social and Political Thought, University of South Florida
Tiffany F. Jones History, California State University, San Bernardino
Viviane Josewski Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Harry Karlinsky Psychiatry, University of British Columbia; Frames of Mind Monthly Mental Health Film Series and Annual Festival
Anupma Kaushik Political Science, Banasthali University, Rajasthan, India
Tim Keane Comparative Literature Program, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
Kathleen A. Kendall School of Medicine, University of Southampton
Debbie Kilroy Sisters Inside, Brisbane, Australia
Jennifer M. Kilty Criminology, University of Ottawa
Stuart Kirk Social Welfare, University of California at Los Angeles
Amy Klassen Sociology, University of Alberta
Endre Koritar Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst, Western Branch Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, Vancouver, BC
Andrea Kovalesky Nursing, University of Washington Bothell
Caroline Fei-Yeng Kwok Author, Lecturer and Teacher, Toronto, Ontario
Dany Lacombe Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
Christine Lamont Strength in Sisterhood, Vancouver, BC
Brenda LeFrançois Social Work, Laurentian University, Editor, Radical Psychology
Alain Lesage Centre de recherche Fernand-Seguin Louis-H. Lafontaine Hospital, Montréal, Québec
Lydia Lewis Sociology, University of Warwick
Maria Liegghio Social Work, Wilfred Laurier University
Elly Litvak Counselor; Performance Artist; Founder, Who’s Crazy Now?, Vancouver, BC
Lane Mandlis Sociology, University of Alberta
Les Marple Counselling Psychology, University of Toronto
Christina Martens Human and Social Development, University of Victoria
Kathryn McKay History, Simon Fraser University
Michael McCubbin Nursing Sciences, Université Laval; Quebec Health Research Fund Scholar
Robert Menzies Sociology and Anthropology and Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser University
Elizabeth Metcalf Disability Studies and Women’s Studies, Syracuse University
Jonathan M. Metzl Psychiatry and Women’s Studies, Director, Program in Culture, Health, and Medicine, University of Michigan
Tina Minkowitz World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, Chestertown, NY
Dawn Moore Law, Carleton University
Marina Morrow Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Judith Mosoff Law, University of British Columbia
Lisa Neve Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies
David Oaks MindFreedom International, Eugene, Oregon
Megan Oleson Mental Health Political Action Group, Vancouver, BC
Kim Pate Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies
Shaista Patel Sociology in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Lora M. Patton Community and Legal Aid Services Programme, Osgoode Hall Law School, Critical Disability Studies, University
Ann Pederson BC Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre
Michael L. Perlin International Disability Law Reform Project, New York Law School
Shoshana Pollack Social Work, Wilfred Laurier University
Helen Posno Friendly Spike Theatre Band, Toronto, Ontario
Dorothy Proctor Activist and Author, Toronto, Ontario
Leon Redler Diorama Arts, London, England
Geoffrey Reaume Critical Disability Studies, York University, Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto
Edith Regier The Crossing Communities Art Project, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Leslie Roman Educational Studies, University of British Columbia
Bobby Saini Brampton, Ontario
J.T. Sandhu, AKA Ruby Diamond Activist and Author, Vancouver, BC
Howard Sapers Office of the Correctional Investigator, Government of Canada
Myrna Schecherl Friendly Spike Theatre Band, Toronto, Ontario
Barbara Schneider Communication and Culture, University of Calgary
Jeffrey Shantz Criminology, Kwantlen University College
Jules Smith Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Ruth Ruth Stackhouse Friendly Spike Theatre Band, Toronto, Ontario
Mel Starkman Friendly Spike Theatre Band, Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto
Ana Stefancic Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Kathleen Sumilas Advocate and Activist, Victoria, BC
Tonya Tabobondung Facilitator, Crossing Communities Art Project, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Kathy Teghtsoonian Studies in Policy and Practice, University of Victoria
Onar Usar Critical Disability Studies, York University
Jane Ussher Gender, Culture and Health Research Unit, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Chris Vogt Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
Jiji Voronka Disability Studies, Ryerson University
Gordon Warme Author, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, CAMH, University of Toronto
Michael Wearing Social Sciences and International Studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Don Weitz Activist, Writer, Broadcaster, Toronto, Ontario
Andrea White Social Work, York University
Kimberley White Law and Society Program, York University
Rob Wipond Freelance Writer, Victoria, BC
Lisa Wulwik Mental Health Political Action Group, Vancouver, BC
Jerald Zaslove English and Humanities, Simon Fraser University

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