Photographic Histories of Psychology
One-day postgraduate symposium
25 November, 2014
Trinity House, PHRC, de Montfort University, Leicester
Registration now open (registration fee includes sandwich lunch, tea and coffee)
*£0: PHRC students and speakers
*£10: de Montfort University students
*£20: students
*£26: non students
The registration link is here.
Program: Photographic Histories Of Psychology
10:00 Registration
10:30 Welcome and Introduction Beatriz Pichel
11:00 First Session
- Cristina Moraru (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University): “Post-Memory Processes. The Reproduction of Psychological Past Through Photography”
- Allison Heutz (Ecole du Louvre): “The Scientific Study of Emotions in France at the Turn of the Century”
- David Keller (Universitat zu Lubeck): “Picturing a Person’s Essence: Photographic Materials as Epistemic Instruments in the History of Early Personality Diagnosis”
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Keynote Lecture: Dr. Mathew Thomson (University of Warwick): “Photography and the Landscape of the Child in Twentieth Century Britain”
14:30 Coffee Break
15:00 Second session
- Leticia Fernandez (University of Greenwich): “Imagining the Uprooted Child: Pain, Separation anxiety and the Second World War”
- Julie Mazaleigue (Universite de Picardie Jules Verne): “Mental Disorders, Degeneration and Criminality (1880-1910): The Photographs of “Stigmata of Degeneration”, a History Between Psychology, Criminology, Police and Collective Representations”
- Katherine Rawling (Royal Holloway): ““The Photographs Illustrating the Book are Good and Well Chosen”. Photography and the Configuration of Psychiatric Knowledge in Late-Nineteenth Century Books”
- David Gentilcore, Edigio Priani (University of Leicester): “Towards an Iconography of Pellagrous Insanity in Venice, 1873-1912”
17:00 Final Discussion
17:30 Wine Reception
More information is here or please contact Dr. Beatriz Pichel.