Disability and Culture: Whose Tragedy? Thursday March 21st, 2013 Centre for Creative Collaboration (c4cc) 16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG Part of Royal Holloway’s Trauma, Fiction, History Series, jointly sponsored by the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures and the Humanities and Arts Research Centre, Royal Holloway. Programme 11-11:15 Read more…
Lancaster University, Conference Centre Opportunities, challenges & tensions: linking the ageing and disability rights agendas Ageing and disability: ’writing in’ gender and sexuality Thursday 25th April 2013 The importance of gender and sexuality amongst older and disabled people is often overlooked by policy-makers and practitioners. This seminar will explore points Read more…
Health, Illness and Disease: Philosophical Essays Edited by Havi Carel and Rachel Cooper Published by Acumen in 2012 What counts as health or ill health? How do we deal with the fallibility of our own bodies? Should illness and disease be considered simply in biological terms, or should considerations of Read more…
Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies – Special Issue Call for Papers: Disability and Visual Culture Guest Editors: Dr Alice Hall (University of York) and Professor Tobin Siebers (University of Michigan) In the last two decades, there has been an unprecedented explosion in visual culture. If we live in Read more…
The Institute of Art and Ideas presents: The Agony & the Ecstasy The Issue: We take it for granted that eradicating pain is desirable. And since De Quincey remarked that a quarter of human misery was toothache, remarkable strides have indeed been made. But is it possible, and do we Read more…
Opportunities, challenges & tensions: linking the ageing and disability rights agendas Addressing ageism, impairment and disablism Tuesday 29th January 2013 This seminar engages with the shape and form of contemporary ageism, impairment and disablism, and the challenges for developments and policies designed to address these issues. Keynote speakers: Peter Beresford, Professor of Read more…
Guest edited by Stella Bolaki and Chris Gair The American Counterculture has a complex relationship with disability. At its heart is the reinvention of the term freak that serves as an early example of empowering, though not unproblematic, appropriation of what had previously been a derogatory term. Freak Out!, the Read more…
Dr Satendra Singh, Assistant Professor of Physiology at the University College of Medical Sciences at the University of Delhi, writes: Infinite Ability, the disability subgroup of Medical Humanities Group of University College of Medical Sciences (UCMS), Delhi is organizing a workshop entitled ‘Blind With Camera’. This is an attempt to Read more…
Final Call for Abstracts Thursday 20th September 2012, University of Leeds Keynote speaker: Prof Paul Gregg, University of Bath An event supported by the Social Policy Association Among the many groups affected by UK welfare reform and benefit cuts, sick and disabled people can arguably lay claim to being ‘the Read more…
Disability in Coalfields Literature c.1880 -1948: A Comparative study Fully Funded PhD, Literature and Disability, Swansea University Wellcome Trust PhD Studentship from 1 October 2012 for three years (Stipend starting at £19,919). Swansea University, in partnership with the Universities of Aberystwyth, Northumbria and Strathclyde, has been awarded a five-year Wellcome Read more…