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Cultures of the Internet:Identity, Community and Mental
HealthThe Internet and World Wide Web have woven together
humanityin new ways creating global communities, new possibilities
ofexchange, new forms of pathology and new modes of
intervention.This workshop and conference will explore the
implicationsof the internet for cultural psychiatry. Sessions will
addressfour broad areas:
How the internet is transforming human functioning,
personhood
and identity, e,g, blogging and autobiographical narration,
virtualidentities, new functional organizations of memory,
cognition,sensorial worlds, and relatedness to others, shifting
notions ofpublic and private;
How the new forms of electronic networking give rise to newtypes
of groups and forms of community, e.g. social
networking,transnational connections of migrants, communities of
interestand common concern;
Pathologies of the internet, e,g, internetaddiction, internet
suicide, sexual exploi-tation, cyberbullying, social isolation,
and
The uses of the internet in mental healthcare, e.g. delivery of
health information,web-based consultation, treatment
intervention and mental health promotion.Particular attention
will be given to theseissues as they apply to indigenous peoplesin
rural and remote communities, to migrantpopulations, and in global
mental health.
This two-day conference is directed tohealth practitioners,
social scientists andpolicy makers.
Thursday April 28
08:30-09:00
Welcome and IntroductionLaurence Kirmayer
Session 1.Identity and Virtuality
09:00-09:30
Extended Minds and ProstheticSouls: Some PossibleImplications of
the Internet forthe Concept of Person
Justin E. H. SmithConcordia University
09:30-10:00
Every Click You Make, I Will
Be Watching You: Romanceand Neoliberal Technologies
Ilana GershonIndiana University
10:00-10:30
Internet Trolls: Sociopathsor Liberal Tricksters?
Gabriella ColemanNYU
10:30-11:00 break
11:00-11:30
Contrived Selves: SecondLife and the Architecting of
Technoliberal IdentityThomas MalabyUniversity of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
11:30-12:00
Inhabiting the Virtual World:a Subject Position?
Ccile Rousseau &Ellen CorinMcGill University
12:00-12:30 panel
12:30-14:00 lunch
Session 2.Community and Networking
14:00-14:30
The Impact of e- and Web-Resources on the Negotiation
ofIndividual and Group Identity,Social Exclusion andPolitical
Protest
Kamaldeep BhuiUniversity of London
14:30-15:00
The Center That Did Not Hold:The Internet and Shifting
Sub-jectivities in Contemporary Iran
Sadeq Rahimi
University of Saskatchewan15:00-15:30
Our lives begin to end themoment we become silentabout things
that matter:Building a Global Movementfor Advocacy and Support
Farah N. MawaniMental Health Commissionof Canada
15:30-16:00 break
16:00-16:30
Todos somos dateros(We are all data-providers):
Internet-based participatorystrategies to strengthencitizenship,
promote healthand quality of life in Peru
NYU
16:30-17:00
Hello Facebook world...its been a while, yagoh,ey???: An
Examination of theTransforming Landscapes ofICTs, Health and
Identity
Naomi AdelsonYork University
17:00-17:30 panel
17:30-19:00 poster session
and reception
Friday April 29
Session 3.Pathologies of the Internet
08:30-09:00
Hyper-networkingand Attention
Alberto Sanchez-AllredMcGill University
09:00-09:30
The Neurological Adolescentand the Digital Age
Suparna ChoudhuryMax Planck Institute
09:30-10:00
Internet Addiction and
Tropes of Techno-pathologyin the 21st Century
Eugene RaikhelUniversity of Chicago
10:00-10:30 break
10:30-11:00
Cyber-bullying, On-line Jokes,Threats or Serious MentalIllness?:
Navigating the LineBetween Free Speech and Inter-ventions to
Protect Public Safety
Shaheen ShariffMcGill University
11:00-11:30Suicide Forums andInternet Identity
Ronald NiezenMcGill University
11:30-12:00
Facebook Loves: Psychosis,Virtuality or Reality?
Kemal SayarFatih University
12:00-12:30 panel
12:30-14:00 lunch
Session 4.Uses of the Internet inMental Health Care
14:00-14:30
The Internet as AuthoritativeKnowledge?An Ethno-cultural
Comparisonof Parenting Experience
Rob WhitleyMcGill University
14:30-15:00
Internet Inputs to theCultural Formulation on aCultural
Consultation Service
G. Eric Jarvis
McGill University
15:00-15:30
Can the Internet Provide aTransitional Space for YoungPeople in
Therapy?
Radhika Santhanam-MartinVictorian AboriginalHealth Service
15:30-16:00 break
16:00-16:30
Telepsychotherapy:Applications and Acceptancein Aboriginal
Communities
Stphane BouchardUniversit du Qubecen Outaouais
16:30-17:00
Creating a Global Primary CareMental Health Presence for
theCaribbean via Cyberspace
Frederick W. Hickling,Vanessa Paisley,Hilary
Robertson-HicklingUniversity of the West Indies
17:00-17:30 panel andclosing
Papers presented at the2011 ASI will appearin a special issue
ofTranscultural Psychiatry
http://tps.sagepub.com
conference programAll sessions will be held in the auditorium of
theInstitute of Community & Family Psychiatry
4333 Cte Ste-Catherine Rd., Montreal, Que.
19:00-20:30 special presentation
Changing Time, Changing Skins
TimeTraveller is a series of Machinimaepisodes about a Mohawk
person livingin 2121 using glasses to view historical
Second Life, a shared virtual space whichallows one to construct
custom avatarsand environments.
Jason E. Lewis & Skawennati Fragnito
Concordia University
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