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In association with IAS Early Career Fellow, John Sidda

Event organised by Susannah Wilson and Hannah Grayson, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University Of ÌÇÐÄTV (a follow-on from the IAS Speculative Lunch: '', held October 2014).

An interdisciplinary workshop on the construction of cultural beliefs about addiction, from the birth of the psychological sciences to the present. All are welcome to attend.

This interdisciplinary workshop, funded by the British Academy and hosted by the University of ÌÇÐÄTV, will examine the cultural representation of addiction across time, with a focus on the post-1800 era and the emergence of the psychological sciences and medical psychiatry. It will consider how behaviours now commonly termed 'addictions' have been framed culturally over the past 200 years, and the ideological cross-fertilisation that occurs between medical and public policy discourses and the cultural sphere. Drawing on historical archive material, philosophy, clinical psychology, novels, plays, the visual arts, film, journalism and radical writing the various speakers will consider the evolution of the concept of addiction through time within different cultural contexts. The workshop is intended to launch an early-career research network and more events in this series will be advertised over the course of the next year.

The keynote lecture will be given by cultural historian, journalist and critic Stuart Walton at 2pm.

Losing Control: Morphologies of Addiction from the Invisible Enemy to Modern Maladjustment

 An interdisciplinary workshop on the construction of cultural ideas about addiction, from the birth of the psychological sciences to the present.

This interdisciplinary half-day workshop will bring together leading oral history practitioners from a variety of disciplines to explore the key methodologies, insights and difficulties involved in conducting oral histories of universities.