All in your Head:
Reviewing the History of the Mind through Approaches, Classifications and Objects
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
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.
Arrival/Coffee & Tea (Heymans Lounge)
Opening
Prof. Kaat Wils and Fernando Gonzalez (KU Leuven)
Morning Session
Moderator: Prof. Joris Vandendriessche (KU Leuven)
Azucena Castro (Stockholm University / Stanford University)
Unruly Herbaria: Vegetal Inscriptions and Plant Agency in Latin American Literature and Art
KEYNOTE
Prof. Brigitte Adriaensen (Radboud University)
Decolonizing Drug Studies: Psychoactive Plants and the Pluriverse
Coffee & Tea (Heymans Lounge)
Franco Capozzi (KU Leuven)
Italian criminal anthropology and the criminal mind
Udodiri R. Okwandu (Harvard University)
Defending Anne Bradley: Race and the Medico-Legal Construction of Maternal Mental Illness
at the Turn of the 20th Century
Prof. Pieter Adriaens (KU Leuven)
Why we shouldn't medicalize homosexuality
Lunch (Heymans Lounge)
Afternoon Session
Moderator: Prof. Kate Kangaslahti (KU Leuven)
KEYNOTE
Paula Muhr (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Hysterical Attack and the Role of Images in its Re-emergence as a Scientific Object in
Current Neurology
Flora Lysen (Maastricht University)
Brainmedia, 20th century histories of fascination with brain science
Coffee & Tea (Heymans Lounge)
Prof. Maaheen Ahmed (Ghent University)
Children’s Minds in Comics: On Delinquent Styles
Hannah Zeavin (Indiana University)
The Cult and the Occult
General Discussion
Prof. Kaat Wils (KU Leuven) and Prof. Steven White (St. Lawrence University)
Registration and Media Event Manager: Els Minne (KU Leuven)
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Programme
Venue
This is a fully hybrid event. Register for online and in-person attendance here .
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.