Mad Studies and an Ethics of Unruliness

5 Sep 2024

Happening On 17/09/2024

Co-hosted by ISS21 and UCC Collective Social Futures in association with the School of Applied Social Science, join us for a talk from Professor Bren A. LeFrançois, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada on Mad Studies and an Ethics of Unruliness. NOTE: This event is now full and registration has closed.

Speaker: Professor Bren A. LeFrançois, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Date: Tuesday 17 September, 14:00-16:00

Venue: CACSSS Seminar Room, O'Rahilly Building, UCC

Hosted by: the ISS21 Disability & Mental Health Cluster and UCC Futures - Collective Social Futures in association with the School of Applied Social Studies. 

REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS FULL

Abstract

The overwhelming presence of inequitable power relations and epistemic injustice continue to buoy our need to change how madness is understood and how mad people are treated and researched. This talk will provide an overview of Mad Studies as a theoretical lens, a methodology and an ethical practice. The concept of unruliness will be detailed along with an analysis of its importance in research, care work, activism and our day-to-day relations with each other.

Following this talk, there will be a discussion with social work students and other participants on the implications of mad studies for professional practice.

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).

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