Scientific Programme

                                

                             Programme
           of  the 2nd International Conference
  on Psychiatric Museums and History of Psychiatry

October 29- 31, 2009, Prague, Czech Republic

 

29 October - Afternoon     chairpersons: Brügemann, Looijen

18.00   Ceremonial opening of the plenary session with two presentations of

Ivan David (Prague): Psychiatric museums as a part of the culture and education
Rolf Brüggemann (Göppingen): Why psychiatry needs a museum?
Hans Looijen (Haarlem): How to bring the psychiatric heritage to the public and the
                       role of a museum on the history of psychiatry in our society
Pompeo Martelli (Roma): Pompeo Martelli (Roma): Up close, no one is normal:
                       the Museo Laboratorio della Mente

29 October - Evening
                                                             20.30 -   Gala raut

30 October - Morning:         chairpersons: Alegaert, Phillips

  9.00-   9.30  Mathilda Wu (Taiwan): Museums and Psychiatry
  9.30- 10.00  Patrick Allegaert (Gent): The history of psychiatry in Ghent/Belgium:
                     The Museum Dr. Guislain History and works of the Museum Dr. Guislain
10.00- 10.30 Octavian Buda (Bucharest): Crime as a ‘psycho-social disease':
                      the Influence of Emil Kraepelin' Eugenics in Eastern Europe
10.30- 11.00 J Michael Phillips (London): Exhibiting Psychiatric Art
11.00- 11.30 Rolf Brüggemann, Gisela Schmid-Krebs (Göppingen): "Shockheaded
                     Peter" from Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann (1809-1894), the psychiatry of
                     childhood and adolescence. A museums approach
11.30- 12.00 Kate Forde (London): Madness & Modernity: Mental illness and the visual
                     arts in Vienna 1900 and Bobby Baker's Diary Drawings: Mental illness and
                     me, 1997-2008

                                                             12.00- 13.00 Common lunch

30 October - Afternoon           

13.00- 16.00   Sightseeing tour in Prague Castle
16.00- 17.00   Poster Session and Discussion
                       (posters will be exhibited during the whole period of the congress)       
Emel Bahadir-Yilmaz, Leyla Ozdemir (Ankara):  Sultan 2nd Bayezid Hospital:
                       A Psychiatric Hospital Model from Otoman Empire Period
Pavol Džodla (Plešivec): 111 years of the Samuel Blum Psychiatric 
                       Hospital in Plešivec.
Ivan David (Praha): Mental illness in the course of ages
                        - on exhibition at the National Museum in Prague 2010
Ivan David (Praha): The First Mental Health Care Institution in Prague
Eddie Danielsen (Aarhus): European Connections (Constantin Hansen's painting)
Eddie Danielsen (Aarhus): The Museum, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Denmark"
                       (General information)
William Fan (Hong Kong): History of Mental Health in Hong Kong

Oral session:    chairpersons: Gonçalves, Danielsen

17.00-  17.30  Hans Looijen (Haarlem): 'Leprosy, Black death and madness, the 
                       architecture of exclusion' The role of the Dolhuys museum of psychiatry,  
                       a modern museum in a very historic building
17.30-  18.00  Enver Sengul, Nehir Agirseven (Edirne): From the 500-Year Hospital to
                       the Awarded Museum, Edirne Health Museum                                                        
18.00-  18.30  Eddie Danielsen and Mia Lejsted (Aarhus): "The Aesthetics of Insanity
                       and the Significance of Beauty".
18.30-  19.00              Tatiana Gonçalves (Campinas): Images of Unconscious Museum:
                       The History and Constitution of a Psychopathologic Art Archive

 30 October - Evening

                                                         19.00    Common dinner


19.30  Conference of „Culture 2007" participants

 31 October - Morning:             chairpersons: Kragh, Vanja
 
  9.00-    9.30  Jesper Vaczy Kragh (Copenhagen): Shock Therapy in Danish Psychiatry
  9.30-  10.00  Christina Vanja (Kassel): Psychiatric Museum in Hesse
10.00-  10.30  Bert Boeckx (Geel): Seven centuries of the Geel's psychiatric family care
10.30-  11.00  Pavel Kalvach, Zdenek Kalvach (Prague): History of understanding
                           dementia

11.00-  13.00  Memorial Terezín- Exhibition "Not Worth Living" T4- Action- Nacistic
                            Euthanasia in Bohemia (in English, German and Czech)

 13.00- 14.00 Common lunch

                        End of the scientific part of the congress

 31 October - Afternoon 
 14.00- 16.00  Visit of the Psychiatric Hospital Bohnice

LANGUAGE

The official language of the Congress is English, therefore all abstracts and presentations must be in English.

REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION DESK

 

You will register yourself in the theatre building of the Psychiatric Hospital Bohnice, where will be situated a registration and information desk. To pick up your congress documents and name badge, please bring along your letter of confirmation.

POSTER AREA

Posters will be on display in the poster area - probably in the corridors and the lobby on the 1st floor of the administrative building of the hospital. Dimensions of the poster boards (including frames) are 100 cm in width and 180 cm in height. To ensure good legibility of your poster, we recommend a maximum size of 95 cm in width and 100 cm in length. Pins for fastening the posters will be available in the poster area.

EXHIBITION

A large space is available for the exhibition, which will take place during the Congress. Its location will be integrated with the main congress areas - probably in the Theatre (Divadlo Za plotem) within the area of the Psychiatric Hospital Bohnice. Companies interested in participating are requested to contact the Congress Administration. Details will be available in the 2nd announcement.
More information here