Thursday, December 8th

8:45 am to 9:15 am

Doors Open

Registration & Breakfast

9:15 am 

Opening Remarks: Rachel D’Agostino and Sophia Dahab

9:30 am to 11:00 am

PANEL ONE: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Liana Kathleen Glew, “Memoirs of Madness: Asylum Reform and Patient Memoirists in the Nineteenth Century”

Diana M. Louis, “The ‘Method in Her Madness’: Harriet Tubman and Nineteenth-Century Conceptions of Insanity”

Moderator: Sophia Dahab

11:00 am to 11:30 am

Refreshment break

11:30 am to 1:00 pm

PANEL TWO: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Martin Summers, “When Community Mental Health Met Community Control: Chicago’s Woodlawn Mental Health Center and the Black Freedom Struggle”

Anne Parsons, “Asylums and the Carceral State”

Moderator: Stephen Fried

1:00 pm to 2:30 pm 

Lunch on your own

2:30 pm to 3:00 pm 

Meditation session with Nicole Taylor, founder of A Joyful Pause

Note: we will close the Reading Room door when the meditation session begins in order to avoid disruption, so please make sure you return from lunch on time if you wish to attend. 

3:00 pm to 4:30 pm

ROUNDTABLE: THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Marc Herzog – National Coordinator, Irreverent Warriors Inc.

Shelby Arnold – Staff Psychologist specializing in Forensic Psychology, Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Paul Grant – Director of Research, Innovation, and Practice at the Beck Institute Center for Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy

Lamya Broussard – Senior Clinician at Uplift Center for Grieving Children

Consuelo Corazon Cagande – Division Chief of the Community Care and Wellness Program at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Moderator: Rachel D’Agostino