Before Depression
1660 - 1800
Second Public Lecture Series, 2008-2009
Lectures, except where indicated, take place in the Lipman Building of the University of Northumbria, ground floor lecture theatre room 031. All lectures begin at 6.30 and admission is free.
All these lecture are now available as mp3 audio files - just follow the links
23 September 2008: Professor Joel Faflak (University
of Western Ontario)
'Get Happy! Romantic Psychiatry and the Addiction
to Wellness'
7 October 2008: Professor Peter Wagner (University of
Koblenz-Landau)
'Engraving the 18th-Century Blues: Hogarth's
Representation of Depression
11 November 2008: Professor RAB Houston (University
of St Andrews)
'The Limits of Sympathy: Newspaper Reporting
of Suicide in Scotland and the North of England, c.1750-1830'
10 February 2009: Professor Jenny Richards (University
of Newcastle)
'Melancholy and the Talking Cure in the
Sixteenth Century'
17 March 2009: Professor Jeffrey Hopes (Université
du Maine)
'"La maladie anglaise":
French views of depression and suicide in eighteenth-century England'
31 March 2009: Patrick Wildgust (Curator, Shandy Hall)
'Poor Maria & My Friend, Mr Shandy'
(This
lecture took place in the lecture theatre of The Lit & Phil, 23
Westgate Road, Newcastle)
12 May 2009: Dr Jonathan Andrews (University of Newcastle
'Diagnosing and Treating Melancholy
in Georgian England'
20 October 2009: Dr Katharine Hodgkin (University of East London)
'Religion and the Body in Seventeenth-Century
Women's Melancholy'
3 November 2009: Professor W.R. Owens (Open University)
'The Ordeal of John Bunyan'