The Bethlem Salon 'Art and the Other' will be a discussion of the work of Emmanuel Levinas in relation to art, psychiatry, subjectivity and the ethics of relations with others.


Speakers:


David Beales, artist
David Beales studied art at Croydon School of Art before he was admitted to psychiatric hospital. He has painted and drawn pictures of the old asylums and the world of the care in the community patient. He has written 'The Road to the Asylum', a study of some of the alienated outsiders in London who were patients on the psychiatric wards.


Dr Juliette Brown, psychiatrist at East London NHS Trust
Dr Juliette Brown is a Specialist Registrar in General Adult and Older Adult Psychiatry at East London NHS Foundation Trust. She completed undergraduate study in English Literature at Leeds and a Masters in Gender at Birkbeck and wrote on art before studying Medicine at St George's. She has published on Kristeva and has an interest in continental philosophy as it relates to experiences of and understanding of mental illness.  In 2014/15 she is Darzi Fellow in Clinical Leadership at UCL Partners.


Dr Tania Gergel, visiting research fellow in Philosophy and Psychiatry, King's College London
Dr Tania Gergel came to King's in 1996 and became a lecturer in Classics and Ancient Philosophy after completing her doctorate on Plato. Following an extended career break, she re-joined Classics in 2011, as well as developing new research interests in philosophy of medicine and psychiatry through the Centre for Humanities and Health.  She now works closely with clinicians from the Institute of Psychiatry and various Mental Health research committees, and her current research focuses on ethics, capacity and advance decision-making in psychiatry, as well as the more general applications of phenomenology within a medical context.   


﻿Dr Alana Jelinek, artist and senior researcher at the University of Cambridge﻿
Alana Jelinek has been a practicing artist for 25 years, exhibiting both nationally and internationally. Her recent and ongoing participatory work, The Field (2008-ongoing) is an art experiment in Levinasian ethics and she has written about the challenges in engaging the other as Other, including both human and non-human other.  Her PhD was in 'Art as a Democratic Act' (Oxford Brookes University 2004-2008) and she is currently working at the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge on knowledge, collections and their interpretations. 

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