(Anti)-psychiatry and Democracy
In what ways can the critics of psychiatry and psychiatric institutions teach us new ways of thinking about democracy today?
New York University’s La Maison Française is hosting an online event, ‘(Anti-)Psychiatry and Democracy’ featuring a talk by Professor Fabian Freyenhagen on ‘Against Psychiatric Power: Basaglia and Foucault’.
21 November, 3pm (UK time) - Fabian's talk begins at 4pm!
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20.11.2025 12:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Did you know you can start a Masters in Western Marxism in January 2026? Whenever you start, you'll qualify with the exact same degree.
Applications are now open! The deadlines are:
1 Dec 25 (student visa needed) OR
19 Dec 25 (no student visa needed)
www.essex.ac.uk/postgraduate...
11.11.2025 15:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Exhibition celebrates space age synthetics | University of Essex
Find out how the development of polyester and the space race revolutionised mid-20th century fashion at the latest exhibition curated by research student Amber Butchart.
A 1960's space age inspired silver dress is the centrepiece of a new exhibition curated by research student Amber Butchart.
The Synthetic Revolution at Haworth Art Gallery and Artists' Studios charts the history of polyester, from its Lancashire roots to fast fashion.
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11.11.2025 14:59 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
History PhD student Louise Rodwell is presenting at the Cambridge University Modern British History Workshop TODAY at 5:00pm with a paper titled 'Imagined Landscapes of the First World War.'
See details below or join online here: bit.ly/47saG3x
06.11.2025 09:15 — 👍 8 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
TODAY @ 3pm: Dr Jörg Schaub discusses 'Two Models of Aesthetic Freedom: Schiller, Hegel, and the Freedom of the Whole Human Being.'
Join us in TC1.10 or online (email phaispg@essex.ac.uk for link)
09.10.2025 09:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Image of badges with logo 'I know the value of history' and text 'The value and provision of history and the humanities: it's time for a political response.'
This week, the Society's President Lucy Noakes wrote in response to Bridget Phillipson's Labour conference speech - and its implications for history and the humanities in UK higher education bit.ly/3KBX7Fw
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04.10.2025 14:37 — 👍 57 🔁 25 💬 0 📌 3
Minor Criminal: The Trial of the Man Who Murdered My Grandmother
This is the annual Royal Historical Society Lecture.
Booking is now open for this year's Royal Historical Society Public History Lecture, with @greshamcollege.bsky.social:
'Minor Criminal: The Trial of the Man Who Murdered My Grandmother', with Daniel Finkelstein bit.ly/4op6Wpd
6-7pm, Tuesday 4 November: in person and online #Skystorians 1/2
05.10.2025 10:26 — 👍 28 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0
Please join the University of Essex Centre for Environment and Society on Wednesday October 15th for a panel discussion and Q&A: Renaturing: Experiences, Practices, Challenges.
Dr Jane Hindley will be on the panel. Don't miss it!
06.10.2025 14:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Virtual reality can be a healing tool for disaster-hit communities, according to new research by the REPLACE Project: www.essex.ac.uk/research-pro...
03.10.2025 09:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Emotion, agency and identity.
Professor Nadine Rossol examines flag conflicts in Germany during the 1920s and 30s, and what we can learn from history about current English 'flag wars'.
Read the @royalhistsoc.org article: brnw.ch/21wVYZq
24.09.2025 11:07 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Spaces still available for the 3rd CICSI Summer School, "SICK NORMALITIES: CHANGING PRACTICES, CHANGING SELVES"! To book your place or for more information, please click here: www.cicsi-uni.org/summer-schoo...
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FINAL REMINDER to our PGR students - survey closes on 31 August!
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Don't forget to register for the 3rd CICSI Summer School - the early bird discounted rate ends on 5 July 2025!
30.06.2025 09:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
William is standing against a white wall and is photographed from the shoulders up. You can see that he is wearing a white shirt featuring a pattern of colourful flowers.
In today’s #PeoplingPodcast we are joined by @williamcarruthers.bsky.social to talk about the construction of dams on the Nile. Listen in as we explore what it means to move entire temple complexes & whole towns while preserving the tourist’s view from the Nile: peoplingthepast.com/2025/06/24/p...
24.06.2025 13:24 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 9
Essex Philosophy proudly presents the 3rd CICSI Summer School on Mental Distress and Its Social Contexts, “Sick Normality: Changing Our Practices, Changing Our Selves” held 18-19 September 2025 on Colchester Campus. Register here: www.cicsi-uni.org/summer-schoo...
19.06.2025 09:42 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2
Donald Trump’s Authoritarian Fever Dream Is All About 1 Thing
Trump has pinned his political career on projecting a certain kind of image. His military parade, the kind usually seen in dictatorships, is the latest and most blatant attempt at enacting his vision ...
Featuring quotes from Art Historian Dr Michael Tymkiw, @huffpost.co.uk discusses Donald Trump's ability to aestheticize his politics through “social media and celebrity culture” as a uniquely American and 21st-century manifestation of authoritarianism.
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17.06.2025 09:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Weekly reminder that I direct our MA in Heritage and Museum Studies and am very happy to answer your questions about it!
07.06.2025 08:04 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
PHAIS PGR students, we need your help! Please complete the PGR Student Voice Survey to have your say on what works, and where we could make improvements.
03.06.2025 10:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Ever wondered what it’s like to be an MA student in PHAIS? Join MA Heritage & Museum Studies student Scarlett Angove for “a day in the life of!”
#heritage #mastudy #masters #curating #museumstudies #postgraduate #essex
23.05.2025 11:45 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
The Essex Lectures in Art History: Professor Caspar Pearson Lecture 1 | University of Essex
Space, Time and Representation in the Sassetti Chapel
Join us TOMORROW, 21 May, for the first of our Essex Lectures in Art History with Professor Caspar Pearson, on "Space, Time and Representation in the Sassetti Chapel."
www.essex.ac.uk/events/2025/...
20.05.2025 13:40 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
In today’s world, misinformation spreads rapidly, making critical thinking even more essential. This lecture challenges prevailing assumptions about critical thinking and explores why this fundamental skill set is vital in our daily decision-making.
📅 22 May 2025, 2pm
📍 4SW.6.18
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16.05.2025 08:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Warwick History Postgraduate Work in Progress.
Showcasing talks by PG students across departments on history-related topics.
Every Monday at 5pm during term time.
Run by the history PhD community.
Once a geographer, avid practitioner of slow scholarship, Leeds Uni prof, philhellene, loves mountains & coasts, teaches intellectual property & justice, health, food, biodiversity. Time to take the money out of politics. Living in safe South London
Art historian. Currently working on a book about visual art and Witold Gombrowicz
PhD student at DCU researching the post-conflict lives of the dependants of the Irish Revolution
AHRC-M4C funded PhD student at the University of Warwick, studying vagrancy and religious dissent in the early modern British Atlantic World
MA World Heritage student, interested in magical objects, museum collections and meaning-making. Formerly British Museum Loans and Exhibitions. (he/him)
Places of Deposit Manager at UK National Archives. Interests in archives, aircraft, hillforts, Warwickshire CCC and AFC Wimbledon.
at the crossroads of African, Islamic, European art histories and critical museology; co-convener of "Planetary Patchwork", "Material Migrations", and "Plants in Africa and the Global South: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies and Aesthetics"
Consortium for the Humanities and Arts South-east England. AHRC-funded doctoral training partnership.
The Medieval & Early Modern Research Network sponsored by CHASE DTP (AHRC). We provide a supportive and relaxed space for academic collaboration between postgraduate students. DM us and join the mailing list!
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Assistant Prof in Int History @UniUtrecht / Visiting Research Fellow @WarStudies King's College London / Into history of international law, courts and dogs. Lives in and loves Den Haag <3
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PhD Philosophy, MA Art History works in decoloniality, power structures, difference making in racialized interpretations of artists. Feminism. Changing the Subject 🥄
Assistant Professor in Moral Philosophy at
@uib.cat . Moral psychology (moral emotions, moral motivation) and applied ethics (mental health, ethics of emotion).
Podcasts: https://beacons.ai/podcast_episodis
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Political scientist at the University of Essex. Parties, voters, institutions, and representation. www.roizur.com
Historian of 18th century London; Professor Emeritus of Digital History at the University of Sussex. Just coughing in the ink to the end of time.
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