International conference: "Memories of Deinstitutionalization in Italy. Oral testimony, subjectivity and public narratives of liberation from the Asylum"

The international conference Memories of Deinstitutionalization in Italy. Oral testimony, subjectivity and public narratives of liberation from the Asylum takes places from 9th to 11th October 2024 at Campus Luigi Einaudi (Sala lauree blu grande, Lungo Dora Siena 100, Torino - 9th and 10th October) and Polo del ’900 (11th October - Palazzo San Daniele, Spazio Incontri, Piazzetta Franco Antonicelli, Torino).

The conference focuses on the memories and narratives around practices of deinstitutionalization in Italy and it aims to discuss forms and times through which individual stories and personal testimonies of the asylum, and its overcoming, have been collected and used from the 1960s to date. 

The conference is part of the actions of the PRIN 2022 “Narration and care. The deinstitutionalization of the psychiatric system in Italy: history, imagery, projects (from 1961 to the present)”, organized by the Department of Letters, Languages, and Cultural Heritage at the University of Cagliari, the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Turin and the Department of Civilization and Forms of Knowledge at the University of Pisa.