History of scientific and educational film in the ‘neuro’ and ‘psy’ disciplines
Symposium
March 19th 2021 9:45-4:30 GMT Online
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/film-observation-and-the-mind-tickets-138932411583
Symposium organisers: Dr Bonnie Evans & Professor Janet Harbord
The history of ‘neuro’ and ‘psy’ disciplines has often been told with a focus on written materials including case studies and publications. Yet, the advent of cinema brought with it new techniques and methods through which to observe and study the workings of the mind via bodily gestures and behaviour. This one-day symposium will consider the significance of film to the establishment and development of neurology, psychology, psychoanalysis, psychiatry and related disciplines. It will focus on how film observational techniques were employed to validate scientific knowledge and how literary and artistic representations of the self-influenced new scientific models from the late-19th century.
The symposium aims to bring together historians of science and film studies scholars to think critically about new ways to approach the history of scientific and educational film in the ‘neuro’ and ‘psy’ disciplines. It creates a forum to consider a number of questions. How were the techniques of early cinema used to create new ways to approach individual case studies? How did film inform statistical analyses? What role did film play in the distinction between atypical and typical states of mind and how were claims of atypicality justified? How did child observational films influence theories of developmental psychology and typical and atypical child development? Conversely, how were films used to challenge and question scientific narratives via approaches influenced by anti-psychiatry and neurodiversity movements. The symposium will be held over one day with the aim of papers leading to an edited volume or journal special issue.
Confirmed speakers: Professor Des O'Rawe (Queen's University Belfast), Professor Janet Harbord (Queen Mary, University of London), Dr Kim Hajek (LSE), Dr Mathias Winter (Ecole Normale supérieure de Lyon), Dr Bonnie Evans (Queen Mary, University of London), Katie Joice (Birkbeck), Dr Felix Rietmann (University of Fribourg).
Presenters will speak for twenty minutes each followed by twenty minutes of questions and discussion. For more information, please contact Dr Bonnie Evans (b.evans@qmul.ac.uk).
Schedule
9:45-10:00: Welcome from Janet Harbord (Autism through Cinema)
10:00-11:00: Case Studies: Texts, Observations and Early Film
Bonnie Evans: Cinema, the Body and the Mind in its Inception
Kim Hajek: ‘She speaks correctly today’: Observations of States of ‘Personality’, 1870–1910
11:00: Break
11:30-12.30: Microanalysis and the Use of Film
Katie Joice: Mothering in the Frame: Cinematic Microanalysis and the Pathogenic Mother 1945-67
Felix Rietmann: Narrating Infant Experiences: Video-based Microanalysis as a Clinical Tool
12:30-13:30: Lunch
13:30-14:30: Psychoanalysis and Film as Pedagogic Tool
Film extracts from Fernand Deligny’s Le Moindre Geste (1971) and François Truffaut's The Wild Child (1970)
Mathias Winter: Psychoanalysis, pedagogy, and cinema: François Truffaut's The Wild Child and the French history of autism
14:30: Break
15:00-16:00: Observational Styles of Filmmaking
Janet Harbord: Filming in clinical settings: negotiating film grammar (1950-1969)
Des O’Rawe: Alternative Treatments: Documentary Film and the End of the Asylum
16:00-16:30: Concluding remarks
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/film-observation-and-the-mind-tickets-138932411583
The symposium aims to bring together historians of science and film studies scholars to think critically about new ways to approach the history of scientific and educational film in the ‘neuro’ and ‘psy’ disciplines. It creates a forum to consider a number of questions. How were the techniques of early cinema used to create new ways to approach individual case studies? How did film inform statistical analyses? What role did film play in the distinction between atypical and typical states of mind and how were claims of atypicality justified? How did child observational films influence theories of developmental psychology and typical and atypical child development? Conversely, how were films used to challenge and question scientific narratives via approaches influenced by anti-psychiatry and neurodiversity movements. The symposium will be held over one day with the aim of papers leading to an edited volume or journal special issue.
Confirmed speakers: Professor Des O'Rawe (Queen's University Belfast), Professor Janet Harbord (Queen Mary, University of London), Dr Kim Hajek (LSE), Dr Mathias Winter (Ecole Normale supérieure de Lyon), Dr Bonnie Evans (Queen Mary, University of London), Katie Joice (Birkbeck), Dr Felix Rietmann (University of Fribourg).
Presenters will speak for twenty minutes each followed by twenty minutes of questions and discussion. For more information, please contact Dr Bonnie Evans (b.evans@qmul.ac.uk).
Schedule
9:45-10:00: Welcome from Janet Harbord (Autism through Cinema)
10:00-11:00: Case Studies: Texts, Observations and Early Film
Bonnie Evans: Cinema, the Body and the Mind in its Inception
Kim Hajek: ‘She speaks correctly today’: Observations of States of ‘Personality’, 1870–1910
11:00: Break
11:30-12.30: Microanalysis and the Use of Film
Katie Joice: Mothering in the Frame: Cinematic Microanalysis and the Pathogenic Mother 1945-67
Felix Rietmann: Narrating Infant Experiences: Video-based Microanalysis as a Clinical Tool
12:30-13:30: Lunch
13:30-14:30: Psychoanalysis and Film as Pedagogic Tool
Film extracts from Fernand Deligny’s Le Moindre Geste (1971) and François Truffaut's The Wild Child (1970)
Mathias Winter: Psychoanalysis, pedagogy, and cinema: François Truffaut's The Wild Child and the French history of autism
14:30: Break
15:00-16:00: Observational Styles of Filmmaking
Janet Harbord: Filming in clinical settings: negotiating film grammar (1950-1969)
Des O’Rawe: Alternative Treatments: Documentary Film and the End of the Asylum
16:00-16:30: Concluding remarks
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/film-observation-and-the-mind-tickets-138932411583
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