Being Disabled (the Forum)

What is disability and how has it been understood through history 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, Professor of French and Critical Disability Studies, Royal Holloway University of London

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

All welcome | Free to attend | First come, first served at the door