About this Event
This symposium presents emerging comparative findings from the Wellcome-funded Transitions project, examining psychiatric deinstitutionalisation in Latin America through historical, political, and transnational perspectives.
Bringing together work on Brazil, Chile, and regional/global reform dynamics, the event explores deinstitutionalisation not simply as technical service reform, but as a contested ethical and political process shaped by democratic transitions, institutional change, memory, and the circulation of ideas.
The symposium is organised around two thematic panels addressing:
* national trajectories of psychiatric reform,
* and transnational and regional reconfigurations of deinstitutionalisation.
The event will conclude with informal discussion and drinks.
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Programme
- Panel I – National Trajectories of Psychiatric Reform
Chair: Francisco Ortega (ICREA / Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
Felipe Szabzon (IMS (UERJ / Transitions) Beyond Rupture: Continuities, Frictions and Synergies in the Making of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform
Sofía Bowen (Universidad de Chile / Transitions) Deinstitutionalisation from the Outside In: Social Medicine, Democracy, and Community Mental Health in Chile
- Panel II – Memory, Circulation and Regional Reconfigurations
Chair: Dominique Behague (Vanderbilt University)
Delia Da Mosto (King’s College London / Transitions) Contesting Epistemic Encounters: Italy, Brazil and the Global Assembling of Psychiatric Deinstitutionalisation
Cristian Montenegro (King’s College London / Transitions) From Experiment to Consensus: Policy, Memory and the Distributed Genealogy of Global Mental Health
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Registration
Free event | Limited capacity
Please register in advance.
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Organisers
Hosted by the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, King’s College London. Part of the Wellcome-funded project (Transitions: The Ethics and Politics of Psychiatric Deinstitutionalisation in South America)
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Franklin Wilkins Building, Waterloo Campus (room FWB 2.40), Stamford Street, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
