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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
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***NOTE CHANGES OF VENUE***
Due to interest, we have booked larger venues whenever possible.
The conference will now be held in the following locations:
FRANKE INSTITUTE, ORIENTAL INSTITUTE, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES.
Thursday, March 11
8:00 pm
Video Program: "Depression: What Is It Good For?"
Including short works by Ximena Cuevas, Ben Coonley, Miranda
July, Paul Bush, Sterling Ruby, Janice Tanaka, Les Leveque, Julie
Zando, and others. Gene Siskel Film Center, School of the
Art Institute of Chicago, 164 N. State (at Randolph), 312-846-2600.
Friday, March 12
The Franke Institute for the Humanities, Regenstein Library, Room
S102, 1100 East 57th Street
"Because we are men." Photographs by Carrie Yury.
March 12-19 (Franke)
8:00-9:00 am
Registration, Bagels, and Coffee (Franke)
9:00-9:15
Introductory Remarks (Franke)
9:15-10:45
PANEL 1
Depathologizing Depression: Affect, Identity, and the Everyday
(Franke)
- Chair: Mike Millner
- Ann Cvetkovich, "On Feeling Bad"
- Melissa Harris-Lacewell, "Black Women's
Depression and Resisting the Myth of Strength"
11:00-1:00 pm
Panel 2
States of Mood: The Social Space of Depression (Franke)
- Chair: Tanya Luhrmann
- Susan Roxburgh, "Time Flies But Are We Having
Fun? The Mental Health Consequences of Time Pressures"
- Irmeli Laitinen and Elizabeth Ettorre,
"Women and Depression Project in Finland: Feminist Action Research,
Women Friendly Groups and Welfare Dynamics"
- Stephanie Snyder, "Depression: The Pathology
of Affective Discourse"
- Felicity Callard, "The Shape of Depression"
1:00-2:00
Lunch (Franke)
The Oriental Institute, Breasted Hall, First Floor, 1155 East 58th Street
2:15-3:30
Panel 3
Private Demons and Public Scripts: Representing the Depressed Self (Oriental Institute)
- Chair: Carla Mazzio
- Preston Edwards, "An Odyssey of Despair:
Gregory of Nazianzus' On Human Nature"
- Wayne D. Woodward and Claire M. Woodward,
"Making Sense of Depression: Disciplinary, Popular, and Personal
Meanings
- Petra Kuppers, "Mental Health Difference:
Art, Aesthetics, and Difference"
4:00-5:30
Panel 4
Imaging and Imagining Affect (Oriental Institute)
- Chair: Barbara Stafford
- Wendy Heller with Rebecca Levin, "The Brain and Mind of Depression."
- Gregg Bordowitz, "The Temperaments and Their
Sway"
5:30-7:30
Reception and Viewing of "Counter/Depression."
Art Exhibit at the Center for Gender Studies, The University of
Chicago, 5733 South University Avenue.
8:00 pm
Performance by Jackie Orr, "daddy does cybernetics:
Diary of a Mental Patient." Cochrane-Woods Art Center,
Room 157, The University of Chicago, 5540 S. Greenwood Avenue. Enter
at North Door (facing parking garage). No entry after 8 pm.
Saturday, March 13
Social Science Research Building, Room SS122, 1126 East 59th Street
8:30-9:00 am
Bagels and Coffee (SS122)
9:00-10:30 am
Panel 5
Selling Symptoms (SS122)
- Chair: Sarah Van Orman
- Jonathan Metzl, "Prescribing Gender in the
Era of Wonder Drugs"
- Allan Horwitz, "The Social Construction of
Ubiquitous Major Depression"
10:45-12:15
Panel 6
Anti-Depressants (SS122)
- Chair: Peter Homans
- Lynn M. Sanders, "Political Protest as Anti-Depressant"
- Benjamin W. Van Voorhees with Justin Ellis, "A Community Based
Depression Prevention Intervention for Young Adults: An Alternative
to the Chronic Disease Management Model (CATCH-IT)"
- Jeffrey Skoller, "Memories of the Revolution:
Filmmaking as Mourning Work in Recent Latin American Cinema"
12:15-1:30 pm
Lunch (Franke)
1:30-3:30
Panel 7
What Is It Good For? (I) (Regenstein A-11)
- Chair: Patricia Nordeen
- Bethany Albertson, "Emotions and Political
Attitudes in the Aftermath of the September 11th Terrorist Attacks"
- Jackie Orr, "Thinking on Drugs: PSYCHOpower,
Psychopharmacology, and National Security"
- Winifred L. Amaturo, "Depression as
Contestation of American Political Ideals"
Panel 8
What Is It Good For? (II) (Franke)
- Chair: Vanalyne Green
- Alyssa Harad, "That Tired Feeling"
- Ferd Eggan, "Playing with Depression: The
Story Continues…"
- Caitlin Delohery, "Break Down: Language Rupture
and Resistance in Depressed Girls"
- Raj Ramanathapillai, "Social Depression:
The Politics of Trauma"
Social Science Research Building, Room SS122, 1126 East 59th Street
3:45-5:15
Panel 9
Structures and Feelings (SS122)
- Chair: Rebecca Zorach
- Jose Muñoz, "Feeling Brown, Feeling
Down"
- Lauren Berlant, "Slow Death"
5:30-6:30
Roundtable and Concluding Remarks (SS122)
8:00 pm
The first public reading of Sarah Schulman's new
play, Mercy. A play about healing, psychiatry,
and the history of the Jewish family. Schulman will be present.
Ida Noyes Hall, Third Floor Theater, The University of Chicago,
1212 East 59th Street.
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