UPCOMING EVENTS
July 8-11, 2025 – Behind the Scenes: The Materialities of Images. Labour and Institutional Spaces, panel chaired by Mireille Berton and Anne-Katrin Weber, « (In)visibilités » – Septièmes Journées suisses d’histoire, Université de Lucerne. With a paper from Jessica Schüpbach, “At the borders of the film: objects, materials, and off-screen elements in medical institutional films”.
March 27-28, 2025 – Patient·e·s et personnel soignant. Interroger les rapports de pouvoir en psychiatrie et en médecine au XXe siècle à travers les archives audiovisuelles, / Patients & Medical Staff: Interrogating Power Dynamics in twentieth-century Psychiatry and Medicine through Audiovisual Archives, Université de Lausanne. Final Conference « Cinéma et (neuro)psychiatrie en Suisse : autour des collections Waldau » (FNS, 2021-2025).
October 3, 2024 – Médiatiser la psychiatrie en Suisse au XXe siècle. Cultures audiovisuelles et savoirs sur la folie – Journée d’étude / Mediatizing Psychiatry in 20th Century Switzerland: Audiovisual Cultures and Knowledge on Madness, Université de Lausanne. Organisation : Mireille Berton (Section de cinéma, faculté des lettres, UNIL) & Aude Fauvel (Institut des humanités en médecine, CHUV-UNIL) => programm
PAST EVENTS
June 6, 2024 – The Psychiatric Film Archive between Monstration and Invisibilisation – Archives Trouble Conference, University of Zurich, Seminar für Filmwissenschaft – Elodie Murtas
30 juin 2024 – Etudier les pratiques filmiques de psychiatres en Suisse. Questions de méthode. Journée d’études RomandPsy : thèses et recherches en cours sur l’histoire “psy”, HM-CHUV/UNIL, Alix Vogel & Mickhaël Moreau (dir.) – Jessica Schupbach
18 avril 2024 – Le traitement de la schizophrénie à l’aune du film utilitaire, 1930-1960, Intervention dans le cours du Prof. Alexandre Wenger, Les maladies au cinéma – Faculté de médecine, iEH2, Institut Éthique, Histoire, Humanités, UNIGE– Mireille Berton
December 14, 2023 – L’audiovisuel au service de la santé mentale. Discussion autour de quelques sources – presentation as part of a seminar at UNIL in the Contemporary History Dept. by Professor François Vallotton, Télévision et Médecine, Autumn 2023 – Mireille Berton
November 29, 2023 – Les films de patients : Cery fait son cinéma – presentation as part of a seminar at UNIL in the Film Studies Dept. by Mireille Berton, Soigner par l’image. Le cinéma au service de la santé, Autumn 2023 – Elodie Murtas
November 25, 2023 – Filmer les troubles neuropsychiatriques en Suisse. Le cas des collections Waldau – Simposio Filosofia, medicina e cinema (Fondazione John Eccles), Centro Monte Verità Ascona (in collaborazione con Palacinema, Brain Circle Lugano, Filmagogia e Locarno Film Festival), dir. Claudio Bassetti – Mireille Berton
November 8-10, 2023 – Vision dispositives to the discovery of the pathological faces of “madness”– Visions of the Sick Body. Physical and Mental Pathologies’ Representations in Photography and Early Cinema, 14th International Seminar on the Origins and History of Cinema, University of Girona (Spain)/GROC/Museum of Cinema – Tomas Mallol Collection – Elodie Murtas
1er novembre 2023 – Présentation et discussion autour des films du Groupe cinématographique des patients de Cery (1964-1981) dans le cadre des Rencontres Cinéma(s) et psychiatrie(s), chapitre 6 (A quelle heure passe le train ?), organisée au Cinéma Spoutnik à Genève par Tom Bidou & Nathan Lachavanne – Elodie Murtas
October 18, 2023 – Filmer la folie : quand les psychiatres s’emparent du cinéma – presentation as part of the general course SHC/Fac. of Arts, UNIL, Theories and Methods in Historical Sciences of Culture by Professor Philippe Kaenel, Autumn 2023 – Mireille Berton
October 10, 2023 – Poster presentation “When (Neuro)psychiatrists Embrace Cinema. Useful film and Mental Health in Switzerland. Around the Waldau Film Collections (1920-1990). A Timeline” – First edition of the Journée des Histoires, Atelier des Histoires, UNIL – Mireille Berton
June 17, 2023 – Institutional Films From the Waldau’s Psychiatric Film Collections, or the Shift From the “Cure Gaze” to the “Care Gaze” (sponsored by the Media and Mental Health wokgroup) – NECS 2023 “Care”, University of Oslo – Elodie Murtas
June 15, 2023 – Studying research and teaching films in psychiatry: What practices of care? (sponsored by the Media and Mental Health wokgroup) – NECS 2023 “Care”, University of Oslo – Mireille Berton
May 12, 2023 – From Alpine Cretinism to Idiocy: Filming Mental Retardation in Switzerland (1920s-1950s) – 96th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine (Ann Arbor, Michigan) – Raphaël Tinguely
June 13, 2023 – Psychiatric film as a historical source. The case of the Waldau collections – IMHAR Kolloquium – Institute for Medical and Health Humanities and Artistic Research (Am-Institut der HKS, Ottersberg, Germany), Monika Ankele (dir.), http:/www.ihmhar.net/ – Mireille Berton
May 5, 2023 – Film as a source for the history of psychiatry. The Waldau collections (1920-1970), HSSuisse Meeting 2023, annual meeting of the network for the history of science in Switzerland, University of Basel’s Department of Media Studies at eikones-Center for the Theory and History of the Image – Mireille Berton
April 5, 2023 – Research films in (neuro)psychiatry: Useful for what, for whom? – The Kolloquium Wissenschaftsforschung FS 2023, ETHZ, Chair of Science Studies, Prof. Michael Hagner (dir.) / History of Medicine, Science, and Anthropocene Research Colloquium, jointly hosted by the Chair for History of the Anthropocene and the Chair for History of Medicine, https://wiss.ethz.ch/lehre/forschungskolloquium.html – Mireille Berton
January 27, 2023 – Binge Watching: An Archeology of the “Addiction” to TV Series – International Conference “Psychiatry and Addictions in Europe in the 20th Century“, Marianna Scarfone & Anatole Le Bras – Raphaël Tinguely
June 24, 2022 – Narrativize Madness and its Cure. The Case of Insulin Coma Therapy in Useful Films (1930-1960) – Panel “Media and Mental Health”, NECS Conference, Epistemic Media: Atlas, Archive, Network, Bucharest, National University of Theatre and Film, 22-26 June, 2022 – Mireille Berton
March 2, 2022 – Ernst Grünthal’s Films at the Waldau. The Case of E.E.G. (1940s-1950s) – Useful Film in (Neuro)Psychiatry Europe, 1900-1950. Update on Current Research, UNIL (Mireille Berton) – Raphaël Tinguely
25 janvier 2022 – Mettre en scène la folie. L’exemple du film (neuro)psychiatrique – Les Mardis de l’Histoire Médicale, Département d’histoire des sciences de la vie et de la santé (DHVS), Faculté de médecine, Université de Strasbourg – Mireille Berton
16 septembre 2021 – Le film au service de la recherche et de l’enseignement en neuropsychiatrie. Le cas de la collection Waldau – Cycle de conférences pour les 10 ans du réseau de recherche Historien.nnes de la santé – Mireille Berton
June 10, 2021 – Cinema and Neuropsychiatry: the Waldau Collection – “Highlights der Lehrfilmanalyse. Audiovisuelle Argumentationen und Wissenskommunikation” Seminar, Berlin – Mireille Berton