Psychiatrist Sean Baumann will present a film screening of the live production of his cantata Madness: Songs of Hope and Despair on Wednesday 20 September from 6pm.
The annual series is presented in collaboration with the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, as the final instalment of the ICA’s current Medical Humanities lecture series.
The project arose from Baumann’s concern that the plight of the seriously mentally ill is either ignored or profoundly misunderstood, and that this contributes significantly to the suffering of those deemed insane. Madness uses a combination of music (both live and recorded), song and imagery in an attempt to portray the complexities and also the wonder of these strange and ultimately unknowable worlds. The cantata showed at the Baxter Theatre in 2016 to critical acclaim.
Sean Baumann is a senior specialist psychiatrist with a special interest in schizophrenia. He recently retired as the Senior Consultant for the Male Acute Service at Valkenberg Hospital, and as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health at UCT.
The 75 min film screening will be followed by an open question and answer session.
WHEN & WHERE: The event will run from 6:00–7:30pm on Wednesday 20 September 2017 in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School Building, UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 – 37 Orange Street, Cape Town 8001
Refreshments served from 5:30pm. RSVP at ica@uct.ac.za
INFO: ICA office: +27 21 650 7156 or ica@uct.ac.za.
About Medical Humanities
The Medical Humanities lecture series grows out of Medicine and the Arts – a post graduate course jointly offered every second year by Associate Professor of Anthropology (housed in the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics) Susan Levine and Professor Steve Reid of the Primary Health Care Directorate. The course aims to facilitate exploration and engagement within a peer group that transcends the disciplinary borders that shape knowledge production in the health sciences, the social sciences, and the arts, and to instil in students an appreciation of the international literature pertaining to health and the medical humanities.
