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01:20 Introduction by Tatiana Bazzichelli 04:46 Introduction to the conference by Elena Veljanovska 16:38 Introduction to the Panel by Elena Veljanovska 19:07 Jasna Russo 40:35 Colin King 56:44 Discussion and Q&A What is madness and who has the right to tell its story? The first keynote with Jasna Russo and Colin King introduces the complexity of the conference topic by viewing the multifaceted stories of madness – as a social construct, as a historical development, and as a system of oppression. It gives an insight into the current theory and practice, as well as on the efforts to organize and protest. It gives shape to the possibilities to have a voice and to claim knowledge within structures where the perspectives of those labelled as mad have been historically suppressed and denied. It addresses the need for epistemic, as well as social justice, and directly address the inherent racism in the state institutions of health and justice, which instead of protecting, perpetually harm individuals. The speakers look at the topic from their activist and theoretical points of view, but also from their personal experiences. They discuss emancipation strategies that can be acquired through research, political organizing and advocacy. Lastly, they are exploring the possibilities for transformative practices that center marginalized and oppressed lives.  In her keynote, Jasna Russo situates the institution of psychiatry within wider oppressive social structures. She briefly presents its history, its social mandate and the formation of the “psychiatric industrial complex.” At the same time, she highlights a parallel but far less visible phenomenon that has existed since the very beginning of psychiatry: political organizing by people declared mad, psychiatrically disordered or mentally ill. Their dual purpose is to claim their fundamental rights and to document their own truths and knowledge. She discusses dominant approaches to this distinctive knowledge base, raising questions of silencing, epistemic injustice and epistemic violence. She is critically engaging with initiatives to “humanize” psychiatry and argues for the potential and power of collective first-person knowledge to radically revisit the dominant understandings of madness and distress – and, most importantly, to transform societal responses to these human experiences. Colin King talks about race and injustice in Mental Health in his keynote address. Data on mental health and race injustice in the UK shows that black Caribbean men are significantly more likely to be detained than those of white ethnic groups (odds ratio 2.53). Black African patients are significantly more likely to be detained than those of white ethnic groups (odds ratio 2.27). South Asian Patients are slightly more likely to be admitted compulsorily compared to white ethnic groups (odds ratio 1.33). Black Caribbean patients are significantly more likely to be re-admitted compared to white ethnic groups (odds ratio 2.30). The keynote looks at mental health as a modern Drapetomania that is apparent in the criminalization of the black experience in the neo-liberal mental health systems in modern Britain. Colin then confronts the concepts of European whiteness vs. the black body seen as madness, and talks about his personal experiences of injustice he faced in the educational and the mental health care system in the UK. At the end of his talk, he discusses this year’s article in Lancet Psychiatry “Black men wanted for restraint and research?” as a call for people working in the mental health system to become aware that death is often a consequence of diagnosing the Black body, and to stop the state criminalization of the victims’ distress in official reports, rather than holding people accountable for state killings. With Jasna Russo (Independent Researcher & Consultant, DE), Colin King (Teacher, Lecturer, Researcher, UK). Moderated by Elena Veljanovska (Curator, Disruption Network Lab, MK/DE). More: https://www.disruptionlab.org/madness