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Interdisciplinary Lecture: “Letting Tourette’s be?” by Jo Bervoets, Diana Beljaars & Hanne De Jaegher
November 18, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
This online lecture will take place Thursday 18/11/2021 from 16:00 to 18:00 Central European Standard Time.
If you want to join, please send a mail to jo.bervoets@uantwerpen.be. Zoom details will be sent a couple of days prior to the event.
Abstract:
The focus in Tourette’s research and therapy lies on the question ‘how to combat tics?’. in this talk, Jo Bervoets, Diana Beljaars & Hanne De Jaegher argue that innovative person-centred research into Tourette’s – in line with taking up Tourette’s as part of neurodiversity – allows reorienting from a purely negative framing towards one productive of a better positive understanding of it. Insights of human geography and enactive philosophy together with lived experience reports result in the title question, which is both a provocation and a way out of the clinical, empirical and ethical stalemate in which the reality of Tourette’s is reduced to stereotypical tics.
After this talk, three respondents will engage with the argument and its conclusion: Jean Steyaert – professor neurodevelopmental disorders, child psychiatrist and Tourette’s expert, Christine Conelea – professor child mental health, clinical psychologist and Tourette’s researcher & Daniel Jones – PhD researcher human geography, Tourette’s researcher and expert with experience. There’s time for a Q&A of at least 30′ from the audience.
A short 8′ introduction to the topic is available here.
Agenda:
16:00-16:10: Welcome and Introductions Kristien Hens
16:10-16:45: Letting Tourette’s be? Jo Bervoets, Diana Beljaars, Hanne De Jaegher
16:45-17:00: response Jean Steyaert
17:00-17:15: response Christine Conelea
17:15-17:30: response Daniel Jones
17:30-18:00: Q&A