shaping the modern symposium The Dax Centre, the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800) and The University of Melbourne present: TRY WALKING IN MY SHOES: EMPATHY & PORTRAYALS OF MENTAL ILLNESS ON SCREEN Franka Potente with Kodi Smit-McPhee in Romulus, My Father. © Some rights reserved by Arenamedia. Dates: 13 & 14 February 2014 Location: The Dax Centre, Kenneth Myer Building The University of Melbourne PROGRAM TRY WALKING IN MY SHOES: EMPATHY & PORTRAYALS OF MENTAL ILLNESS ON SCREEN Dates: 13 & 14 February 2014 Location: The Dax Centre, Kenneth Myer Building, The University of Melbourne Franka Potente and Eric Bana with Bodie Janka in Romulus, My Father. © Some rights reserved by THURSDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2014 8.30-9.15 Registration 9:15-9:30 WELCOME - Professor Gillian Wigglesworth, School of Languages & Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne 9:30-10:30 KEYNOTE LECTURE - Sponsored by the Human Rights & Animal Ethics Research Network (HRAE), The University of Melbourne Associate Professor Jane Stadler, The University of Queensland - The Empath and the Psychopath: Televising Hannibal Introduction by Professor Barbara Creed, Director, HRAE 10:30-11:00 BREAK 11.00-12:30 PANEL SESSION 1 PANEL SESSION 2 PANEL SESSION 3 PANEL SESSION 4 AUDITORIUM EDUCATION ROOM LEVEL 5 SEMINAR ROOM GALLERY MULTIMEDIA ROOM CHAIR: PATRICIA DI RISIO CHAIR: TESSA DWYER CHAIR: STEPHANIE TRIGG CHAIR: MARK NICHOLLS Preview Screening: Breaking Aesthetics and Experiments Moving Pictures: Performance, Workshop: Creative the Chains, followed by Q&A in Style: Representing Mental Engagement and Empathy Collaborations: Filmmaking and with the director Illness on Screen the Lived Experience (Erminia Colucci, 2014, UK/ Indonesia/Australia 64 min) Erminia Colucci, Centre for Felicity Ford, Screen Studies, Victoria Duckett, Media Studies, Penelope Lee, Manager International Mental Health, The University of Melbourne Deakin University Professional Development, The University of Melbourne Public Programs and Hues of Depression: Visual Medically modern: Sarah Partnerships,The Dax Centre Codes of Mental Illness in Bernhardt, Queen Elizabeth, and Cate Shortland’s Somersault the moving pictures What We Have Learnt Margaret Goding, Associate Eloise Ross, Media, Screen & Jane Whiteley, History, Rick Randall, Artistic Director, Director Asia Australia Sound, La Trobe University The University of Western The Other Film Festival Mental Health Australia The Cinematic Pit of Anxiety: A Zero Sum Game? Choosing Dimensions of sound in The Dirty, troublesome and of most between authenticity and drama Snake Pit loathsome habits: Creating in the depiction of mental illness empathy for the ‘refractory’ patient. Fincina Hopgood, Screen Simon Troon, Theatre & Film Studies, The University of Studies, The University of Melbourne Canterbury Speak a Native Tongue to Me: Empathy and experimentation with cinematic convention in the films of Jonathan Caouette 12.30-1.30 LUNCH Curators in Conversation: Dax Centre Gallery Tour (Lisa Gluck and Deb Zipper) 1.30-2.30 KEYNOTE LECTURE Professor Raimond Gaita, The University of Melbourne - The Limits of Empathy Introduction by Professor Stephanie Trigg, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotion, The University of Melbourne 2.30-3.00 BREAK 3.00-4.30 PANEL SESSION 1 PANEL SESSION 2 PANEL SESSION 3 PANEL SESSION 4 AUDITORIUM EDUCATION ROOM LEVEL 5 SEMINAR ROOM GALLERY MULTIMEDIA ROOM CHAIR: ANGELA NDALIANIS CHAIR: DEB ZIPPER CHAIR: VICTORIA DUCKETT CHAIR: FINCINA HOPGOOD Small Screen Therapy: Workshop - Reel Exposure: Hollywood Stars and the 20th Dialogues on Dementia Televisual Treatments Stigma, Stereotypes and the Century Madwoman Lived Experience Terrie Waddell, Humanities, Hoa Pham, Psychologist John Benson, Social Sciences Rose Capp, Flinders University La Trobe University and Communication, La Trobe Vivid – the Lived Experience From Beare to Iron Lady: The University Shrink Wrapped Television: of Mental Illness and Media Two Maggies and changing Simulated therapy, Hollywood, Popular Genre and depictions of dementia on the disclosure, and the lure of Discourse on Mental Illness with mainstream screen ‘plausible doubt’ particular reference to Now Voyager (1942) and Spellbound (1945) Mark Nicholls, Screen Diahann Lombardozzi, Adelaide Sheridan, English, Steve Macfarlane, Caulfield Studies, The University of Filmmaker and Maria The University of Sydney Hospital Melbourne Dimopoulos, Mental Health Lilith: Sexual Derangement and Dementia on the Small Screen Network ‘A Conversation Between Female Power in 1960s Cinema Enlightened Friends’: The mutual reassurances of the Real Exposure arts and sciences in Freud (BBC TV, 1984) Claire Perkins, Film and TV Patricia Di Risio, Screen Studies, Studies, Monash University The University of Melbourne Couch Discourses: Therapy 20/20 Vision: The feminist and on television queer hindsight of Girl, Interrupted 5.00 - 6.00 RECEPTION 6.15-8.30 SCREENING - Romulus, My Father (courtesy Arenamedia) Panel Session: Professor Raimond Gaita, University of Melbourne; Dr Fincina Hopgood, Screen Studies, University of Melbourne; Dr Sam Margis, Psychiatrist, NEST Family Wellness Clinic; Katherine Fry, script supervisor, Romulus, My Father Chair: Dr Pia Brous, The Dax Centre Jeremy Oxley & Peter Oxley rehearsing (from The Sunnyboy, by K Harrison) FRIDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2014 9: 00-9:30 Registration 9:30-10:30 KEYNOTE LECTURE Professor Barbara Creed, The University of Melbourne - Animals, Empathy and Mental Illness Introduction by Associate Professor Elizabeth M Dax AM, Chair, The Dax Centre Board 10:30-11:00 BREAK 11.00-12:30 PANEL SESSION 1 PANEL SESSION 2 PANEL SESSION 3 PANEL SESSION 4 AUDITORIUM EDUCATION ROOM LEVEL 5 SEMINAR ROOM GALLERY MULTIMEDIA ROOM CHAIR: JEANETTE HOORN CHAIR: PENELOPE LEE CHAIR: STEVE MACFARLANE Siblings: Trauma, Empathy Workshop: Cultural Pedagogy and Audiences: Using Curators in Conversation: and Spectatorship Anthropology and Film to Develop Empathy Dax Centre Gallery Tour Ethnographic Filmmaking Jane Mills, Journalism & Robert Lemelson, UCLA/ Lee Allen, Austin Hospital/ Curator, Lisa Gluck and Media Research Centre, Elemental Productions The University of Melbourne Education Officer, Deb Zipper The University of NSW Representing Psychiatric Staff and Student Perceptions and Curators in Conversation – Mindfeeling the Spectator: Disorders through Reactions to the Use of Film Clips Imaginarium: works by Adam The sibling relationship and Ethnographic Film: Issues in from Cinema: A pilot study of an Knapper empathic engagement in the production of Afflictions: innovative teaching tool to enhance Sweetie Culture and Mental Illness in engagement in the delivery of the Indonesia psychiatry curriculum to the Melbourne University Doctorate in Medicine Jennifer Beckett, Journalism Erminia Colucci, Centre for Donna Nairn, Western Port & Media Research Centre at International Mental Health Secondary College The University of NSW Representing Human Rights Invoking Empathy: Redefining Stories My Sisters Told: Violations against People with the roles of adolescent girls on Negotiating trauma and Mental Illness through screen sisterhood in Rachel Perkins’ Ethnographic Film: Issues in Radiance the production of Breaking the Chains Jodi Brooks, Arts & Media, Fincina Hopgood, Screen The University of NSW Studies, The University of Melbourne Empathetic Spectatorship, The Sunnyboy, and the Sibling “Laugh Along with Me”: Using comedy and autobiography to create empathy for mental illness on screen 12.30-1.30 LUNCH 1.30-3.00 PANEL SESSION 1 PANEL SESSION 2 PANEL SESSION 3 PANEL SESSION 4 AUDITORIUM EDUCATION ROOM LEVEL 5 SEMINAR ROOM GALLERY MULTIMEDIA ROOM CHAIR: MARK NICHOLLS CHAIR: FINCINA HOPGOOD CHAIR: PATRICIA DI RISIO Psychotherapists on Screen: Workshop - Madness and Diversity, Destabilisation, and Curators in Conversation: Perspectives from Psychiatry Dreamers Difference: New Directions in Dax Centre Gallery Tour and Screen Studies Critical Research Steve Macfarlane, Caulfield Gerry Katz, headspace Kendra Marston, English, Media Curator, Lisa Gluck and Hospital/Monash University Studies & Art History, Education Officer, Deb Zipper The University of Queensland Curators in Conversation – Female Melancholia on the Imaginarium: works by Adam Psychiatry in the Cinema Contemporary Cinematic Knapper Screen: Implications for a politics of gender and race Pia Brous, The Dax Centre Meighen Katz, Historical & Jessica Balanzategui, Screen Philosophical Studies, Studies, The University “Don’t Jump Into a Whirlpool” The University of Melbourne of Melbourne or “How Barbara Went Swimming and Drowned “I Have Bad Thoughts”: Mental Instead” illness and the uncanny child Kirsty Leishman, English, Kirsten Law, Film & TV Studies, Media Studies & Art History, Monash University The University of Queensland Investigating Women: Farewell, Dr Dippy: Neurodivergence and New Reconsidering Femininities in Homeland and representations of The Bridge psychotherapists in television drama 3.00 - 3.30 BREAK 3.30-5.30 SCREENING - The Sunnyboy Panel Session: Director Kaye Harrison; Professor Patrick McGorry, Orygen Youth Health Research Centre); Dr Jodi Brooks, UNSW; Jack Heath, SANE Australia Chair: Patricia Di Risio 5.30 CLOSING REMARKS Kaye Harrison (director) & Jeremy Oxley, photo by M Oxley-Griffiths WELCOME How is mental illness represented in film and television? Cinema and television are powerful media that can take the What emotions are elicited from the viewer? How have these audience