Transitions Symposium: Psychiatric Deinstitutionalisation in Latin America

Join us for the Transitions Symposium: Psychiatric Deinstitutionalisation in Latin America: Memory, Reform, and Community
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)