Dr Lambros Malafouris hosts the EnvironMental: Material engagement and basic self-disorders in schizophrenia workshop at Hertford College
The question of the relationship between schizophrenia and our modes of engagement with the material world was the theme of a cross-disciplinary workshop that took place at Hertford College, Oxford 30th June - 3rd July 2024. The workshop, organised by Prof Lambros Malafouris, is part of an ongoing collaboration with Thomas Fuchs (University of Heidelberg), Vittorio Gallese (University of Parma), and Frank Röhricht (East London NHS Foundation Trust). This collaboration was created in the context of the HANDMADE project which is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (No. 771997). The aim of this collaboration is the development of a cross-disciplinary synergy of neuroscientific, psychiatric, psychological, philosophical, archaeological and anthropological perspectives to investigate how materiality (in the broadest sense of things, spaces, technologies and environments) relates to those aspects of embodied self-experience that we see disrupted across the schizophrenia spectrum. The ‘EnvironMental’ workshop focused on some of the current methodological challenges, obstacles and opportunities in developing new operationalizable diagnostic criteria for self-disorders as well as novel object-oriented and somatic treatments. The objective is to address the core aspects of schizophrenic psychosis by paying attention to the embodied and affective relationships of people and the material environment.
Attendees: Martina Ardizzi (Neuroscience, University of Parma), Thomas Fuchs (Psychiatry & Phenomenology, University of Heidelberg), Vittorio Gallese (Neuroscience, University of Parma), Konstantina Kilteni (Neuroscience, Donders Institute & Karolinska Institute), Maria Danae Koukouti (Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Oxford), Hedda Lausberg (Neurology & Psychiatry, German Sport University Cologne), Lambros Malafouris (Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Oxford), Paul March (Art & Archaeology, University of Oxford), Lily Martin (Psychiatry & Phenomenology, University of Heidelberg), Andrea Raballo (Psychiatry, University of Lugano), Frank Röhricht (Psychiatry, East London NHS Foundation Trust), Wendy Ross (Psychology, London Metropolitan University), Martin Voss (Psychiatry, Charité University Hospital & St. Hedwig-Hospital).
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‘EnvironMental’ workshop participants (from left to right): Paul March, Hedda Lausberg, Thomas Fuchs, Lambros Malafouris, Frank Röhricht, Maria Danae Koukouti, Wendy Ross, Lily Martin, Andrea Raballo, and Marin Voss.
