Being Disabled (the Forum) (CANCELLED)

Cancelled due to Pensions Strike

What is disability and how has it been understood historically and across different cultures? How is disability presented in the arts and in our changing idea of what it means to be human? Is the term ‘disability’ useful for the development of disability rights or does it fail to capture the diversity of disabled experience? We will address these questions and consider the nature of disabled experience and the ways in which society is disabling.

Speakers
Claire Jones
Lecturer in the History of Medicine, University of Kent

Fiona Kumari Campbell
Senior Lecturer in Social Work, University of Dundee

Hannah Thompson
Reader in French, Royal Holloway University of London

Chair
Danielle Sands
Fellow, The Forum
Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Culture, Royal Holloway, University of London