The Madness gathering having come and gone, another one is brewing. The first Global Conference (called Madness – Probing the boundaries”) happened in September 2008. Now comes the second (on Monday 14th September – Thursday 17th September 2009, at Mansfield College, Oxford). The organizers calmly say:
This inter-disciplinary research conference seeks to explore issues of madness across historical periods and within cultural, political and social contexts. We are also interested in exploring the place of madness in persons and interpersonal relationships and across a range of critical perspectives.
One featured topic is: “The Value of Madness or Why is it that We Need Madness?”
(Thanks to investigator Martin Kaluza for bringing this to our attention.)