All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
Programme
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Problematised Sexual Identities: Individual Responses in the Context of Psychiatric Institutions
| This paper proposes to look at sexual identities and personal narratives in the context of psychiatric interventions during the first half of the twentieth century. Examining the accounts of people who had experienced welfare interventions in psychiatric and “mental deficiency” institutions in Britain and in Switzerland, this paper tries to address possibilities for agency in the context of eugenic practices. Having emerged during the second half of the nineteenth century and having gained international acceptance and popularity, the ‘science’ of eugenics was used to assist nation-states in formulating social policies which would improve the ‘quality’ of the population. The growth of modern health and social policies from the turn of the twentieth century provided the institutional conditions for translating the eugenic rhetoric into practice. Far from merely being inscribed into official and semi-official policies of sterilisation, eugenic thinking heavily influenced institutional care for those deviating from standards of intelligence, gender norms/expectations, sexual behaviour, criminal behaviour and so on. The paper examines how people whose life was influenced and shaped by short-term and long-term institutionalisation and/or sterilisation managed the interventions in their lives.
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