{"title": "Psychiatrist, Pharmacist, Executioner: The social life of acute behavioural disturbance", "start": "2026-11-03T17:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T20:00:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck College", "address": "WC1E 7HX London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/medicine/psychiatry"], "description": "A public lecture examining how psychiatric categories like Excited Delirium and Acute Behavioural Disturbance are used by state agents to justify violent force against people in mental health crises. It is delivered by Dr Adam Elliott-Cooper, Senior Lecturer in Social and Public Policy at Queen Mary University of London, with Carson Cole Arthur, Lecturer of Criminology at the University of Law, as discussant. Using the case of Darren Cumberbatch, who died in such circumstances, it analyses how the legitimating power of medicalisation is deployed by police and those challenging it. Elliott-Cooper is author of Black Resistance to British Policing and co-author of Empire's Endgame: Racism and the British State.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/psychiatrist-pharmacist-executioner-the-social-life-of-acute-80515/", "official_url": "https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/64392/psychiatrist-pharmacist-executioner-the-social-life-of-acute-behavioural-disturbance", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-03T17:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T20:00:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck College", "address": "WC1E 7HX London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Therapeutic Productions: Breathing Life Into Real World Art", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-30T00:00:00Z", "place": "Museum of Croydon", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/multidisciplinary", "society/mental-health"], "description": "An exhibition at the Museum of Croydon presenting the work of Therapeutic Productions, an initiative launched in 2021 that uses creativity to empower people across society. It is led by creatives, artists and social entrepreneurs who use film, music and art skills to highlight social issues. The show focuses on three of the initiative's largest projects to date: Dark Thoughts, on philosophers and intellectuals working in a western context and the 18th century abolitionist Ottobah Cugano; Prodigal Monster, raising awareness for positive mental health, rehabilitation and recovery for those incarcerated; and The Burning Breath Chapters, a book journeying through life's stages and overcoming trauma through therapy and meditation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/therapeutic-productions-breathing-life-into-real-world-art-37212/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/419246c0358645c19bc4594f8ff1523817ad0251dfc8487f2412688193d6fb83-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Rudy Loewe: Intimacies of Care – Spaces of Grief and Possibility", "start": "2026-07-10T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Wellcome Collection", "address": "Euston Road 183, NW1 2BE London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/mental-health"], "description": "An art exhibition at Wellcome Collection in London. The artist Rudy Loewe presents sculptures, paintings, text-based works and sound that imagine a mental healthcare system that is equitable and supportive. The works centre the lived experience of Black people in the UK whose mental healthcare is shaped by racist discrimination, and were developed with grassroots organisations including ADHD Babes, the Black Trans Foundation and Black and Neurodiverse.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rudy-loewe-intimacies-of-care-spaces-of-grief-and-possibilit-40245/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2b1421a7b63284a39aff2a305cc2ad51f882ddf0d9af26cd0207e46e5722a07f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Collective in Residence", "start": "2026-05-20T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-04-30T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/law", "art"], "description": "Visible Justice Collective in Residence is a year-long residency by the research collective Visible Justice at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. The collective, founded by David Birkin and Max Houghton in 2019 and based at University of the Arts London, rethinks the legal concept of habeas corpus through the visual arts, considering the body as a site of both injury and resistance. Through talks, performances, workshops and screenings, the programme explores sites of justice, censorship, proscription, abolition, occupation, displacement and gendered violence, bringing together artists, academics, writers and performers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/collective-in-residence-36642/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7c9a21f4cfe7413e088b04b292fdd5e77fbe6d0ec863e52284c8a87e0d2eb5e8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "'Logics of Dispossession: Governing By Eviction in Indian Cities'", "start": "2026-11-11T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "10 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, WC1H 0XG London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "society/urbanism"], "description": "A book launch for 'Logics of Dispossession: Governing By Eviction in Indian Cities'. Author Dr. Liza Weinstein (Northeastern) speaks with discussants Professor Claire Colomb (Cambridge University) and Dr Paolo Novak (SOAS), chaired by Dr Sarah El-Kazaz. The book traces the Indian government's power to evict from colonial times to today, arguing evictions are a historically entrenched tool of city governance in Indian cities aspiring to be world-class.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/logics-of-dispossession-governing-by-eviction-in-indian-citi-70408/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/logics-dispossession-governing-eviction-indian-cities", "image": ""}, {"title": "Manufacturing Vulnerability in the Uyghur Region: State-Imposed Forced Labour and the Crisis of Corporate Complicity", "start": "2026-11-09T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "10 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, WC1H 0XG London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "society/human-rights"], "description": "A seminar on state-imposed forced labour in the Uyghur Region of China and how it reaches global supply chains from apparel to renewable energy. Organised by the SOAS China Institute, it features Professor Laura T. Murphy, a scholar of forced labour at Sheffield Hallam University and Senior Associate at CSIS, chaired by Professor Rachel Harris of SOAS. The talk examines how the government manufactures vulnerability among Indigenous citizens to justify its actions, and how corporations use discourses of 'urgency' and 'complexity' to shelter their complicity. The event is free and open to the public, though registration is required, and will not be recorded or live-streamed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/manufacturing-vulnerability-in-the-uyghur-region-state-impos-43662/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/manufacturing-vulnerability-uyghur-region-state-imposed-forced-labour-and-crisis", "image": ""}, {"title": "Homelands research seminar series: Welcome to Guantánamo!", "start": "2026-11-12T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "University of Westminster", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["community/refugees"], "description": "Welcome to Guantánamo! is a research seminar with a lecture by Christian Kobluk, a Polish/Burundian essayist, writer and human rights activist. Drawing on NGO reports, first-hand observations and refugee testimonies, he examines conditions in Poland's migrant detention centres following the refugee crisis at the country's eastern border. The lecture offers a critical perspective on detention, border control and human rights in contemporary Europe. Kobluk is the author of A Zone of Nonbeing: A Black Pole's Reflections on Racism in Poland and a former refugee rights advisor to a member of the Polish Parliament.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/homelands-research-seminar-series-welcome-to-guantanamo-40001/", "official_url": "https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/homelands-research-seminar-series-welcome-to-guantanamo", "image": ""}, {"title": "The Trembling City: Book Launch", "start": "2026-11-08T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T16:30:00Z", "place": "Ibraaz", "address": "Mortimer Street 93, W1W 7SS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/war", "science"], "description": "A talk and conversation marking the worldwide launch of the book 'The Trembling City: The Sonic and Atmospheric Violence of Vibrational Warfare', held in the Majlis. Author Gascia Ouzounian joins artist and researcher Susan Schuppli in conversation. The book explores how sound and vibration act as instruments of violence in cities under occupation, siege, and war, from drone noise in Gaza to the skies above Beirut. It is part of 'The Trembling City: Sound and Spatial Justice', a series conceived by Ouzounian with Ibraaz.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-trembling-city-book-launch-36607/", "official_url": "https://ibraaz.org/whats-on/the-trembling-city", "image": ""}, {"title": "MEDICINE IN CONFLICT AND NATURAL DISASTER: SHOULD IT BE A SUBJECT IN THE UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL CURRICULUM?", "start": "2026-11-09T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Medical Society of London", "address": "Chandos Street 11, W1G 9DQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/medicine", "society/conflict"], "description": "An Ordinary Meeting of the Medical Society of London, a talk titled \"MEDICINE IN CONFLICT AND NATURAL DISASTER: SHOULD IT BE A SUBJECT IN THE UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL CURRICULUM?\". It is given by Air Vice-Marshal Aroop Mozumder and asks whether medicine in conflict and natural disaster should be a subject in the undergraduate medical curriculum.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/medicine-in-conflict-and-natural-disaster-should-it-be-a-sub-41691/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "IGHI Special Lecture 2026: Global Challenges, Human Solutions", "start": "2026-11-11T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T19:00:00Z", "place": "Imperial College London", "address": "Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/humanitarian"], "description": "A special lecture hosted in person and online, open to all with advance registration. Dr Christos Christou, a surgeon and former International President of Médecins Sans Frontières from 2019 to 2025, discusses how medicine, leadership and politics intersect in real humanitarian settings, drawing on his work with MSF during crises including Ebola and COVID-19. The Institute of Global Health Innovation, one of Imperial College London's global challenge institutes, is behind the lecture, which is introduced by Professor the Lord Ara Darzi. The talk also looks at where academic institutions can contribute to humanitarian medicine.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ighi-special-lecture-2026-global-challenges-human-solutions-74067/", "official_url": "https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/213463/ighi-special-lecture-2026-global-challenges-human-solutions/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bedfc8984c5a29d014c9fd68eb0bf33fde754c8abbc982bcb706a7229e9aa57f-2000.webp"}]}