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Join us at HU Berlin for a conference exploring the intersections of literature and psychiatry between 1920 and 1970. Elena Vogman and Marlon Miguel will contribute a talk entitled "Poetics of the Lived Experience: Frantz Fanon's Theatre Plays". It will take place on Thursday May 16 at 09:45h. For the full program and information on how to attend, follow the link to the site of the HU.

Elena Vogman's newly released article is included in the collection of essays "Cinéma du corps, cinéma du cerveau. Deleuze aux frontières de la spectatorialité", edited by ed. Marie Rebecchi, Stanislas de Courville and Jacopo Bodini. The collection is published by Éditions Mimesis in the series "L'œil et l'esprit". The full text of the article is available under "Publications".

Marlon Miguel's essay focuses on the work of Brazilian doctor Nise da Silveira, a pioneer in psychiatry who introduced artistic tools to work with psychiatric patients, especially those diagnosed as psychotic. She founded the Museum of Images from the Unconscious in 1952 inside an asylum in Rio de Janeiro to assemble and exhibit the works produced by her patients.

The essay has just been published in the open access collection "Displacing Theory Through the Global South", edited by Iracema Dulley and Özgün Eylül İşcen, ICI Berlin Press.

On Saturday, April 27th at 4:00 PM Paris time Marlon Miguel, co-PI of the project "Madness, Media, Milieus: Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe" at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, will delve into Fernand Deligny's engagement with Jacques Lacan's concepts of the "symbolic" and the "real."

His presentation will take place within the framework of a series of reading workshops organized and moderated by Verónica Diez. For further information and the link for online participation, visit the linked page of École lacanienne.

Join us at ici Berlin on May 2nd and 3rd, 2024, for a conference exploring the global history of psychoanalysis and its politics of translation. Marlon Miguel, co-PI of the project "Madness, Media, Milieus," will present a talk titled "Psychosis and Images: Translating the Non-Verbal". Click "more" for the event's full program and registration for in-person attendance on the ici website.

From November 23 to November 25, 2023, in Paris, the three-day workshop titled "L’exclusion, aux frontières de l’humain?" will delve into the challenges posed by exclusion, examining its impact on individuals and society amidst economic transformations, political crises, natural disasters, and social changes. Principal investigators of the project "Madness, Media, Milieus" Elena Vogman and Marlon Miguel will be attending and participating in roundtable discussions.

On Friday, November 17, 2023, Elena Vogman (Principal Investigator of the project "Media, Madness, Milieus. Reconfiguring the Humanities in postwar Europe") and Olexii Kuchanskyi (PhD research fellow of the project) will be participating in a workshop at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. The workshop is devoted to the topic "The Digital Revolution as Counter-Revolution". Elena Vogman and Olexii Kuchanskyi will discuss "Mental Ecologies of War: A Proposition for an Ecosophic Gaze". For further information on how to attend, follow the link.

On Wednesday, November 1, 2023, Marlon Miguel will be speaking about "Bispo do Rosário's Ecology of the Ship". The talk is part of a workshop on Psychoanalysis and Decoloniality and will take place at Humboldt-Universität Berlin. For further information about the event, including online participation info, follow the link.

On Wednesday, October 25, 2023, Elena Vogman will speak about "Geo-​psychiatry: Media, Milieus and the Politics of Madness with François Tosquelles and Frantz Fanon" at the Sciences Studies Colloquium at ETH Zurich. Follow the link for further information on the event.