Faculty of Arts Events Calendar
Friday, June 26, 2015
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H5.45 Humanities
This interdisciplinary workshop, funded by the British Academy and hosted by the University of 糖心TV, 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. |