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From: D. Goodley [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
New Directions in Disability
Seminar Series
The Centre for Disability Studies at Leeds is pleased to
announce the following free and open seminar:
Lois Keith
‘Take Up thy Bed and Walk?’
Renowned disability rights writer Lois Keith takes a new
look at Death, Disability and Cure in Classic Children's
Fiction. This session reflects on issues raised by Keith
in her latest book of the same name (The Women's
Press, 2001).
7th November 2001
2.30 – 4pm
Room 10.03
Social Studies Building
University of Leeds
(For campus map see
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/campus/campusmap.html)
‘New Directions in Disability’ is a series of guest
lectures by disability activists and academics
commencing October 2000. Themes include:
The interdisciplinary future of disability studies;
The implications of research concerning disabled
children and young people;
Relationshipsbetween activism and the academy;
The psycho-emotional dimensions of disability;
SocialModel analyses of Tourette’s Syndrome;
Developingthe social model of disability’.
Other speakers (have) include(d) Mike Oliver, Carol
Thomas, Jenny Morris, Colin Barnes, Vic Finkelstein,
Mairian Corker, Rachel Hurst and Rob Evans. The CDS
at Leeds is currently working on ways of re-presenting
these sessions on its homepage – see, for example, a
transcription of the seminar presented by Rachel Hurst
at:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-
studies/archiveuk/archframe.htm.
For further details please contact:
Dr Dan Goodley
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Tel: +44 113 233 4618
Dr Dan Goodley
Lecturer in Sociology
Centre for Disability Studies
University of Leeds
School of Sociology and Social Policy
Leeds, LS2 9JT, England
Tel: +44 113 233 4618
Fax: +44 113 233 4415
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies
NEW BOOK! 'Self-advocacy in the lives of people
with learning difficulties: The politics of resilience'
Goodley, 2000, Open University Press
see http://195.89.185.89/bd.cgi/openup/isb?0335205267
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