Lectures on Tap - "A History of the Lobotomy"

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🧠 Lecture: "A History of the Lobotomy"

🎙️ Speaker: Prof. Katelyn Angell

Join us for a riveting evening as Prof. Katelyn Angell guides us through the unsettling, fascinating history of early- to mid-20th-century psychiatric treatments. Centered on the rise and fall of the lobotomy, this lecture traces how earlier somatic therapies—malaria therapy, insulin shock therapy, and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)—paved the way for one of medicine’s most infamous procedures.

Prof. Angell will explore how these controversial and often desperate interventions reflected both the limitations and ambitions of psychiatric medicine, and how they ultimately became stepping stones to modern psychopharmacological treatments. You’ll gain a deeper understanding of how medical ethics, scientific curiosity, and social attitudes toward mental illness collided in this era of experimentation.

Kate(lyn) Angell is a medical librarian and associate professor at the CUNY School of Medicine. She holds degrees in Library and Information Science and Psychology, has presented across the USA and Europe on psychiatry and information literacy, and is a longtime zinester focused on figures like Yoko Ono, Nico, and Golden Age Hollywood.

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Agenda

6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.

6:55 PM – Host introduction

7:00 PM – Lecture begins

7:45 PM – Audience Q&A

8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round

8:30 PM – Wrap up.

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