Date: 10th May 2016 Location: Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE This conference will entertain and educate, exploring mental health through the eyes of the ancient world, and taking a tour through history. It will include highlights by Professor Julian Hughes such as “If only the ancients had DSM 5, all would… Continue reading
Location: Gilmorehill Halls, 9 University Avenue, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ Date: Monday 5th – Wednesday 7th September 2016 Deadline for proposals: Friday 3rd June 2016 Keynote speakers: Eva Feder Kittay, Stony Brook University NY Andrew Kötting, artist and filmmaker, University for the Creative Arts This Wellcome-funded interdisciplinary conference aims to support and foster collaborative… Continue reading
Location: Sir Alwyn Williams Building (L5), Lilybank Gardens, University of Glasgow Date: Wed 20th April 2016 Attendance: £25 full, £15 concession, free for BSA members Registration is now open for the Disability and Shakespearean Theatre symposium. Please visit our Eventbrite page to register – all welcome! This symposium draws together growing research interest in disability… Continue reading
1-2pm, Wednesday 9th March 2016 Dr. Anna Mcfarlane (School of Critical Studies), ‘Inequality in Medical Science Fiction’ In both literary theory and science fiction studies posthumanism has emerged as an important discourse over the last decade or so. Posthumanism offers tantalising philosophical propositions and seems to open up new possibilities for individual and social organisation… Continue reading
The Future of Organ Donation in Scotland Date: 6.30pm – 9pm, Friday 1st April Location: Laboratory of Human Anatomy, Thomson Building, University of Glasgow, G12 8LU I would like to warmly extend out an invitation to you for an evening event in the Laboratory of Human Anatomy. This event will present research informed findings and discussion… Continue reading
Children’s literature, Lois Keith argues, has long tended to use disability and illness as metaphors, as “devices to bring the character through a period of trial and desolation into the bright light of resolution and a happy ending” (2001, 194). Where they were depicted at all, disabled and ill characters have mainly been described in terms… Continue reading
Disability & Society, ‘Learning from the Past: Building the Future’ Deadline: 31st August 2016 Special Issue Call for Papers It has been more than 30 years since Disability & Society first began publishing. The journal now provides a world-leading focus for debate about such issues as human rights, discrimination, definitions, policy and practices against a background of… Continue reading
Voices of Madness, Voices of Mental Ill-health Centre for Health Histories, University of Huddersfield 15th- 16th Sept 2016 In the thirty years since Roy Porter called on historians to lower their gaze so that they might better understand patient-doctor roles in the past, historians have sought to place the voices of previously, silent, marginalised and… Continue reading
Critical disability studies has been a continually growing field of academic study. Its intersectional approach is frequently used in political and philosophical theorizing. However, very few scholars have paid attention to how disability has been constructed by dominant media institutions in the 21st century. This is true even when scholars focus on the social model of… Continue reading
Disability, Work and Representation: New Perspectives Special Issue: Disability Studies Quarterly (Fall 2017) Editors: David Turner, Kirsti Bohata, Steven Thompson, Swansea University In/ability to work plays a critical role in definitions of dis/ability, but the complexities of the relationship between people with disabilities and the world of work have only recently started to gain scholarly attention. Contributions… Continue reading
