Using moments from contemporary cultural production (films, TV shows, music, etc.), this panel thinks carefully about the ways in which madness and mental health are becoming reconstituted and co-opted in the present moment to fit with neoliberal and capitalist ways of being in the world. We will also attempt at crafting “strategies” to survive, strategies to be mad, against this co-option.

Featuring:

Dr. Idil Abdillahi, Assistant Professor, X University
Dr. Christopher Smith, Research Associate, Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto
Dr. Ricky Varghese, Tanis Doe Postdoctoral Fellow, X University and Psychotherapist