Here are the latest updates from the Transitions Project.
Transitions is pleased to share the Call for Papers for Modelling Reform: Psychiatric Reform Across Histories, Contexts, and Circulations, an international workshop taking place at Sapienza University of Rome on 20–21 May 2027.
Marking the first year of Transitions, the symposium brought together emerging research on the histories, movements and circulation of psychiatric deinstitutionalisation across Latin America.
What does psychiatric deinstitutionalisation look like when approached not primarily through law, policy, or institutional archives, but through wet streets, samba rehearsals, cigarette breaks, improvised costumes, and the smell of rain-soaked bodies returning to a psychiatric hospital after a parade?
Exploring the debates, innovations and visions for transformation developed in Brazil and Chile in response to movements for reform in the USA and Western Europe in the second half of the 20th century.