All in your Head:
Reviewing the History of the Mind through Approaches, Classifications and Objects
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20th of April 2023
KU Leuven / Online
Banisteriopsis caapi scanned at St. Lawrence University's Microscopy and Imagery Center, from Microcosms: A Homage to Sacred Plants of the Americas (https://www.microcosmssacredplants.org/), used with the permission of Jill Pflugheber and Steven F. White, © 2022.
Organiser: Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez
Co-Organiser: Prof. Kaat Wils
Event Media Manager: Els Minne
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This is a reMEDIAL NATURE event,
a project funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under the
Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101026198.
Keynote Speakers
Prof. Brigitte Adriaensen (Radboud University)
"Decolonizing Drug Studies:
Psychoactive Plants and the Pluriverse."
Paula Muhr (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
"Hysterical Attack and the Role of Images in its Re-emergence
as a Scientific Object in Current Neurology."
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Discussants
Prof. Steven White (St. Lawrence University)
Prof. Kaat Wils (KU Leuven)
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Confirmed Presenters
Prof. Pieter Adriaens (KU Leuven)
"Why we shouldn't medicalize homosexuality."
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Prof. Maaheen Ahmed (Ghent University)
"Children’s Minds in Comics:
On Delinquent Styles."
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Franco Capozzi (KU Leuven)
"Italian Criminal Anthropology and the Criminal Mind."
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Azucena Castro (Stockholm University/ Stanford University)
"Unruly Herbaria:
Vegetal Inscriptions and Plant Agency in Latin American Literature." "Un
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Flora Lysen (Maastricht University)
"Brainmedia, 20th Century Histories of Fascination with
Brain Science."
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Udodiri Okwandu (Harvard University)
"Defending Anne Bradley: Race and the Medico-Legal Construction of Maternal Mental Illness at the Turn of the 20th Century."
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Hannah Zeavin (Indiana University)
"The Cult and the Occult."
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Venue
This is a free-of-charge fully hybrid event, but both in-person and online registration are required.
Georges Lemaître Room and
Heymans Room,
Faculty Club
Groot Begijnhof 14
3000 Leuven, Belgium
About
The objective of this one-day seminar is to create an interdisciplinary space for the exchange of ideas about the mind as a receptacle and catalyser of classificatory practices, approaches and objects commonly silenced, misinterpreted, (mis)framed, misused, misread, or excluded from the dominant global public and scientific discourse, despite their implications at a legal, medical, political, economic and social level, or their presence in popular and visual culture, literature and environmental debates.