News and events
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Imagining other psychiatries: history and mental health policy in Brazil
On 11 November 2026, Felipe Szabzon, a postdoctoral researcher at IMS-UERJ and researcher on the project Transitions: The Ethics and Politics of Psychiatric Deinstitutionalisation in South America, will present preliminary findings from his research on the history of psychiatric care in Brazil.
Transitions photography exhibition
The photographs on display are part of the Transitions project, a study of psychiatric deinstitutionalisation in Brazil and Chile carried out across historical ethnographic and transnational research.
Deinstitutionalisation in imperfect conditions: learning from trajectories of reform
The World Health Organization has released a new practical guide, Supporting the transition to community-based mental health and social care: practical guide to the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric hospitals.
Call for Papers for Modelling Reform
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.
Psychiatric Deinstitutionalisation in Latin America: Movement, Memory and Circulation
Marking the first year of Transitions, the symposium brought together emerging research on the histories, movements and circulation of psychiatric deinstitutionalisation across Latin America.
From Trieste to Rio: Marco Cavallo and the Afterlives of Deinstitutionalisation
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?
Where carnival becomes care
Where Carnival Becomes Care, a photograph by Delia Da Mosto, has won first prize in the “Research in Action” Photography Competition organised by the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy at King’s College London.
Trieste as Symbol and Place: Reflections on the 'In and Out of the Asylum' Workshop
What does it mean to rethink psychiatric reform from a borderland? This was the question that stayed with me throughout In and Out of the Asylum: Psychiatric Critiques and Reforms in Historical Perspective, a two-day workshop held at the University of Trieste this February.
Gorizia and the Global South: Transitions at the Basaglia Beyond Borders Conference
Between 12–14 November 2025, Cristian Montenegro and Delia da Mosto participated in the international conference Franco Basaglia Beyond the Borders: Practices of Freedom.
Voces y Trayectorias: In Conversation with Benedetto Saraceno
Conversations on psychiatric deinstitutionalisation in South America with Benedetto Saraceno. An online event Thursday, November 27, 2 to 3pm GMT
Launch in Chile of the "Transitions" project on the ethics and politics of psychiatric deinstitutionalisation in South America
At a seminar held on 18 August at the School of Public Health, University of Chile, the international Transitions project, funded by the Wellcome Trust and coordinated by King's College London, was officially presented in the country.