Enabling the Past: new perspectives in the history of disability
Friday 17 - Sunday 19 June 2005
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University
of Manchester, UK
Disability is an innovative field, traversing a wide range of subjects
and themes including historical dimensions. This conference aims to
explore this diversity, consider new perspectives and offer dynamic
directions for further research.
PLENARIES:
Zina Weygand, Centre National des Arts et Métiers, Paris
Author (with Catherine Kudlick), Reflections: the Life and Writings of a
Young Blind Woman in Post-Revolutionary France, New York University
Press, 2001
Jeffrey Reznick, National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington DC
Author, Healing the Nation: Soldiers and the Culture of Caregiving in
Britain During the Great War, Manchester University Press, 2005.
Paul K Longmore, San Francisco State University, California
Author, Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability, Temple
University Press, 2003.
Full programme to follow. For latest details and registration form, see
<http://www.chstm.man.ac.uk/events/enabling-the-past.htm> or contact the
conference organisers:
Dr Julie Anderson, julie.anderson (at) manchester.ac.uk
Dr Ana Carden-Coyne, a.cc (at) manchester.ac.uk
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