26.4986, Calls: Cog Sci, General Ling, Neuroling, Philosophy of Lang, Psycholing/Switzerland

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Subject: 26.4986, Calls: Cog Sci, General Ling, Neuroling, Philosophy of Lang, Psycholing/Switzerland

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Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 12:02:47
From: Yvonne Ilg [yvonne.ilg at ds.uzh.ch]
Subject: Objects of Psychiatry: Between Thing-making, Reification & Personhood

Full Title: Objects of Psychiatry: Between Thing-making, Reification & Personhood 

Date: 08-Jun-2016 - 11-Jun-2016
Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Veronika Rall
Meeting Email: veronika.rall at fiwi.uzh.ch
Web Site: http://www.schizophrenie.uzh.ch/conference2016 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Philosophy of Language; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2015 

Meeting Description:

International Conference organised by the interdisciplinary research project: 
''Schizophrenia'': Reception, semantic shift, and criticism of a concept in the 20th century. 
University of Zurich, Psychiatric Hospital Zurich University. www.schizophrenie.uzh.ch. 

Psychiatry is situated at the interface between the natural sciences, the social sciences 
and the humanities. The ensuing hybrid nature invites inter- and transdisciplinary research 
approaches. This conference aims to give a platform to such approaches asking the central 
question: Who or what is, becomes or constitutes psychiatry's object? 

Taking its starting point from the study of concrete research objects - case notes, images, 
films and texts, diagnostic concepts and labels, research instruments and therapeutic 
procedures, doctors and patients - it invites reflection on how objects are related to 
subjects, selves and personhood. Can this relationship be conceptualized along the lines of 
the traditional Western dichotomy between object and subject or does it have to be 
fundamentally re-thought? And is it linked to other classical dichotomies e.g. the one 
between matter and meaning? Is there a role for agents as object-, subject-, 
self- or thing-makers?

OBJECTS OF PSYCHIATRY takes up current debates within psychiatry namely the debate 
about the reification of psychiatric diagnoses like ''schizophrenia'', but also deliberations 
about autonomy, human rights and participation. At the same time, it considers how the 
humanities situate psychiatric objects in wider societal contexts and discourses and bring 
into focus their historical genesis and configuration.

Confirmed keynote speakers: Peter Galison (Harvard University), Dagmar Herzog (City 
University of New York), Lutz Jäncke (University of Zurich), Norman Sartorius (University of 
Geneva)

2nd Call for Papers:

Reminder CfP: Conference OBJECTS OF PSYCHIATRY, Zurich, June 8-11, 2016

Drawing together heterogeneous traditions of thought and methods, it invites participants to 
build – and to reflect on – transdisciplinary bridges between sciences and humanities as well 
as between theory and practice. Contributions are invited, but not limited to, perspectives from 
psychiatry, philosophy, psychology, linguistics, history, history of science and medicine, 
neurosciences, as well as cultural, literary, film & visual studies. Medical Humanities 
approaches are welcome. 

Proposals (max. 250 words) for 20-minute papers should be sent to Veronika Rall, 
veronika.rall at fiwi.uzh.ch, Deadline: Dec. 1, 2015.

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