GE2020-33
| Date 日期: | 28 Jan 2021 | |
| Time 時間: | 3:45pm - 5:15pm | |
| Venue 地點: | CBA, Chow Yei Ching Building, HKU | |
| Medium 語言: | English | |
| Speaker(s) 講師: | Dr. Harry Wu （吳易叡博士） |
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| Summary 內容: | In this talk, we will discuss the relationship between film and psychiatric sciences over the past century. From optic unconscious to mental imagery, film technologies kept inspiring scientists in developing theories to explain mental disorders. On the contrary, filmmakers have been obsessed with themes portraying lunatics and doctors who tried to cure them. These narratives are woven with multiple storylines: How were psychiatrists and mental patients represented over time on the silver screen? How have professional and lay perception over insanity changed because of films? In what ways have films and psychiatrists mutually improved or obliterated each other? Combining his research in the development of traumatic psychiatry and general interest in films, Dr. Harry Wu will take the audience through a century-long journey of cinema technology by watching clips extracted from more than a dozen classic movies produced worldwide. Participants are expected to obtain resources to reflect upon humanity, fragility, and hope when darkness raids. Co-organiser: Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, HKU Online registration starts at 10:00 on 20/1 (Wed): ► HKU students only - https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=73258 |
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| Bio of Speaker(s) 講者簡介: | Harry Yi-Jui Wu is currently Assistant Professor and Director of Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit, HKU. He studies mental health from the perspectives of history of science and “science, technology and society (STS). His book, Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization, will be published by MIT Press in 2021. |
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