Too Mad to be True IV - Madness and its Expressions

Secher, M. T. (Introductory speaker)
Jørgensen, G. H. (Introductory speaker)

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture or presentation

Period	14 May 2026 → 15 May 2026
Event title	Too Mad to be True IV : - Madness and its Expressions
Event type	Conference
Degree of Recognition	International

Keywords

learning, educational science and teaching
research designs, theory and method
health, nutrition and quality of life
schools, courses and institutions
social work and social conditions
children and youth
management, organizational development and innovation
education, professions and jobs
aesthetics, design and media
Media, communication and languages

Documents & Links

All speakers abstracts and bios 19 april 2026
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Program TMTBT April 16
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Madness has been a privileged object of interest across a broad range of disciplines, including the mental health sciences (psychiatry/psychology), philosophy, mad studies, religion studies, aesthetics and anthropology. In each of these disciplines, madness acquires a different expression and meaning, partly determined by prevailing assumptions, aims, fears and desires: madness as the expression of pathology and explanatory or therapeutic ambition in the mental health sciences; as a real-life thought experiment or as circumscribing the bounds of reason and sense in philosophy; as a site for revolution, political critique and emancipation in mad studies; as (a potential threat to) authentic belief or divine inspiration in religion; as embodying (the limits to) artistic creativity and cultural exploitation in aesthetics; or as a cultural construct that provides a mirror into particular cultures and societies. Alongside, and through, these diverse disciplinary expressions, there is the expression of madness by mad individuals themselves, whose voice is muffled, amplified, transformed and appropriated. In this fourth edition of the Too Mad to be True conference, we interrogate and offer a forum for these different expressions and configurations of madness, around six subthemes (see here).

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