Mad Knowledge as Methodology: Countering Sanism and Creating Change through Mad Studies
Venue
Room 1.12, Lister Learning and Teaching Centre5 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9SU
Description
This seminar will entail an exploration of the field of Mad Studies, including a discussion of its emergence, its goals and its foundational theoretical understandings.
Sanism, the oppression experienced by mad people and mad communities, will be highlighted along with a preliminary discussion of the anti-sanist and anti-racist praxis that attending to Mad knowledge opens up for us.
Speaker: Professor Bren Lefrancois
Bren A. LeFrançois is a University Research Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada. Their scholarship focusses on the psychiatrisation of young people and on anti-sanist, anti-colonial and anti-racist praxis. They are a co-editor (along with Geoffrey Reaume and Robert Menzies) of the edited volume Mad Matters which is currently being developed into its second edition (along with a new co-editor, Idil Abdillahi).
Key speakers
- Bren Lefrancois, University Research Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada