Event Info UnrulyMinds: Mental Health and the Human Sciences in Chinese Contexts Overview For the past three decades, abundant research on mentaldisorders and mental health in East Asia has focused on the power-relationsbetween the colonizers and the colonized, and the exploitation of Westernhegemonic scientific knowledge on ‘Eastern’ subjects. With the emergence ofnewfangled critical theories, post-colonial and orientalist approaches seem notable to catch up with the pace of studies in transnational history, Sinophonestudies and research that uses Asia as methods. Organised by Asst Professor (History, LKCSoM) Harry Wu, generously funded by a Arts andHumanities Research Council (AHRC) research grant co-directed by Dr. HowardChiang (Warwick) and Dr. Hsiu-fen Chen (NCCU), and supported by the researchcluster Humanities, Science and Society (HSS@HSS) of NTU, this workshop,therefore, aims to bring together scholars who have been working on mentaldisorders and mental health issues in broadly defined Chinese contexts withdevelopmental feedback on either their site-specific case studies or conceptualenquiries on an informal platform. Participants are encouraged to examine howcategories of mental disorders, notions of mental health and formations ofmental health professions are open to a myriad of interpretations determined byclass, race, gender, institutions and the state in Chinese national and transnationalbackgrounds. Through this one-day discussion, we expect participants tomutually inspire one another, generate cutting-edge research and form potentialcollaboration networks in the field. The workshop will also advertise toattract clinicians, mental health professionals and other human sciencespractitioners in order to foster interdisciplinary dialogues. This workshop willformalize the public impact of the AHRC-funded research network project titled‘China and the Human Sciences: 1600 to the Present’, with the aim of aidingpractitioners and researchers in the human sciences (including the healthprofession) foster a stronger appreciation of the humanistic dimensions oftheir work, including its historical, social, cultural, and political underpinnings,which would in turn benefit their subsequent interactions with people outsidetheir specialty. Details of the workshop programme can be found HERE. Registration for this event has closed. |