For anyone interested in Griesinger from discussions at #FiR2018, @matthewrbroome has picked up on some of his work, esp. in positioning Karl Jaspers' thinking. See for example: https://bit.ly/2uGBauz #HistNeuro #HistPsych
My final #FiR2018 Tweet to thank everyone for yesterday - speakers, panel chairs, participants, co-organisers @harbottlestores & @RE_histories, & those who supported event: @UoB_IAHR, @HistoryatHud, @SSHMedicine, & @emotionshistory @QMHistory. Watch this space for developments...
WHY DOESNT MY TWITTER APP NOTIFY ME OF NOTIFICATIONS??!! Again I have to apologise to everyone who must think me ignorant - ur responses have just come thru #FiR2018
So, we're now in discussion territory. Everyone is in the common room on comfy seats and we've split down into smaller chatting groups to talk thru the day & its themes, & abt what the next step #FiR2018
Spking of dangers of constructing the institution as idyllic - as the romanticising nostalgia. The is one voice. In South Asian history there is a push for patient voices still; that they are absent - but how to access the authentic voice? #FiR2018
Tlking abt the sources used in today's papers, what they say, how we use them, the absences they have. With such an international range of speakers, we come from different national historiographies - e.g. German preoccupation on biography, Holocaust & its perpetrators #FiR2018
After Estates business, am in our final plenary slot, with Waltraud Ernst offering her thoughts on the themes of the day #FiR2018
How do Nelson & her history colleagues remember these patients? Is talking abt tensions around using images; most not, clearly, but there are photos that have been previously published - can they use those? They decided not #FiR2018
Many of the patients in the DD section died in the years immediately after the closure. They were left without support. Their voices are absent #FiR2018
There's an overwhelming sense of nostalgia when Nelson and other meet with and interview former patients. There is a sense of injustice in its closure. But closed as a result of avoidable patient deaths in 1991 and 1992 - none in the DDU section of the hospital #FiR2018
Ultimately the magazine was a co-production between patients and staff, as the pieces were compiled by a structured conversation #FiR2018
The magazine was part of a recreation therapy programme that they called 'The Newspaper Club'. The magazine, Nelson argues, was an example of what Foucault calls the technologies of the self; a means for patients to reflect on their experiences #FiR2018
The paper is based on the closure of Indiana Central State Hospital, which closed in 1994. The hospital was a site for ppl diagnosed with intellectual disability #FiR2018
Wonderful Elizabeth Nelson has battled & made it frm the US & thru many travel issues :) She's spking abt 'Disability & Deinstotuionalization: Under Deconstruction' #FiR2018
Whose job is it to remember? Not developers - they only think of the future, and the past as a source of (material) contamination #FiR2018
Now describing developments that knocked the old buildings down & rebuilding housing. Uses same sort of terminology to describe, e.g. idyllic. The history generally lost. But there are egs of new roads named after former drs at the asylum that used to stand there #FiR2018
Speaking abt re/naming & marketing. Logos use red, gold, green; seems to represent heritage. Descriptions include 'historic parkland', 'Majestic Victorian splendour', 'idyllic private setting' #FiR2018
Looking at how the sites are described in sales brochures, 'unique' comes up a lot #FiR2018
Gibbeson talking abt whether or how redeveloped asylum sites remember their past #FiR2018
Next up, Carol Gibbeson, 'Memorialising the Afterlives of Asylums: Reuse, Renovation and Remembrance' #FiR2018
They're currently thinking abt reinterpretation and how they weave stories of Anna Freud, & the challenges to him & his behaviour and work; are they 'Fortress Freud', or acknowledgers of controversy? #FiR2018
The story told by the Vienna Freud Museum is quite different, as the flat, once Freud had fled to the UK from the Nazis, was used as a holding site for Jews rounded up before being sent East to concentration camps #FiR2018
Not unusual that ppl visit & burst into tears, overwhelmed by visiting Freud's house. Half of visitors each year from overseas, and the visit is in many ways for many ppl a pilgrimage #FiR2018
Freud only lived for a yr in the premises of what became the Freud Museum (opened 1986), but it contains his belongings (& he was an 'inveterate collector') #FiR2018
Final panel. First paper, Carol Seigel, 'Freud's Legacy: History and Interpretation at the Freud Museum, London' #FiR2018
Rob finishing with question abt the theme of loss in the last three papers #FiR2018
Kat speaking to question abt photographs as public/scholarly currency. She describes historian or archivist as gatekeeper for images of atrocity, but also that this may not be right, that the emphasis shd maybe be on viewers' decisions as to whether they want to look #FiR2018
The oral histories are a means of remembering & participants are proud of the importance placed on their words.
Facebook is being used as a place to remember by Nottingham mental health nurses #FiR2018
Oral history can disrupt dominant narratives - offers memory based on experience not hearsay or myth #FiR2018
