UPDATE: Men and Madness (UK) (2/1/07; 6/28/07-6/30/07)
MEN AND MADNESS: Representing Male Psychopathology and Mental Disorder in
Modern and Contemporary Culture
English Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
28 - 30 June 2007
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Susan Bordo, University of Kentucky
Elisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich
Richard Collier, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Mark Micale, University of Illnois
Sally Shuttleworth, University of Oxford
Traditionally it has been women and other social groups marked by an alleged
Œdifference¹ from standards of sanity and reason who have been most
vulnerable to designations of Œmadness¹. The twentieth-century rise of