Welcome to the research portfolio of the ERC StG project MaDAf “A History of Madness in West Africa: Governing Mental Disorder during Décolonisation (1940s-1970s)” (2021-2025).
MaDAf traces the history of madness in West Africa during the period of decolonization and after independence. The project focuses on three main areas related to the history of Africa, decolonization, and the history of madness. By examining the decolonization and post-independence periods, the project aims first to emphasize the ruptures but also the continuities in the everyday governing of madness. Read more
Upcoming ERC events
Thursday 03 October, from 3 to 5 PM (CET). We will have the pleasure to hear Marion Gronier, photographer, talk about her photographic project carried out between four psychiatric centers in France and Senegal.
This talk will be the last one of the associated researchers’ seminar.
Campus Condorcet Paris, Colloque final ANR AMIAF : L’autre aliéné. Histoire(s) juridique(e) de la folie en Afrique (XIXe-XXe) (coord. par Silvia Falconnieri). With Romain Tiquet, Raphaël Gallien, Paul Marquis.
Paul Marquis wins the Prix Yseult Schwarzbach, Concours de la Société Française d’histoire des hôpitaux, 2024. Congratulations to him!
April 11th, Paris, from 9 am to 6 pm.
Folie et psychiatrie. Pendant et après les guerres de décolonisation (XXe-XXe siècles).
March 22nd – Questioning the trauma. Journée organisée par Camille Evrard.
Having brought together historians, political scientists and clinicians working on colonial and post-colonial combat experiences, this meeting continues through a dynamic of collective exchanges which aim to extend reflection. The discussions are in French and English.
Latest news from the MaDAf team
[New Publication] Gina Aïtmehdi, Camille Evrard, Raphaël Gallien and Paul Marquis, “Introduction. Sur les traces de la folie : sources et terrains africains (xxe-xxie siècle)”, Sources. Matériaux & Terrains en études africaines, 2024, n°8.
Raphaël Gallien on French radio about psychoanalysis and colonisation. “Le monde est fou ! La psychanalyse décolonisée”, Les rendez-vous de l’histoire, France Culture, May 7, 2024.
[New Publication] “De l’idéal de soi au corps déclassé. Corps et internement psychiatrique (Madagascar, années 1920-1930)”, Monde(s), vol. 24, no. 2, 2023, by Raphaël Gallien
[New Publication] Routines punitives. Les sanctions du quotidien, XIXe-XXe siècle, ed. Elsa Génard & Mathilde Rossigneux-Méheust, with Paul Marquis.
Romain Tiquet on French radio about Seydou Keïta. “L’économie selon Seydou Keïta”, Entendez-vous l’éco ?France Culture, May 26, 2023.
[New Publication] Psychanalyse du reste du monde. Géo-histoire d’une subversion, ed. Livio Boni & Sophie Mendelsohn, with Raphaël Gallien.
Geography of the project