The Institute on Disabilities at Temple University presents a
series of lectures on "The Geo-Politics of Disability."
Wednesday, March 18, 12:00
"Rage Against the Machine: Disability and Neo-Liberal Capitalism"
James Charlton
Access Living, Chicago, IL
A few hundred years ago individuals with impairments *became*
disabled. Since then, individuals with disabilities have
experienced lives of marginalization, essentially alone.
Ironically, at the historical moment we became a (social)
group, we became alone. Today, we are no longer alone as
individuals, but we are essentially alone as a dispersed
community. Then again, it could be said that we are a
dispersed community even though we are segregated. Or possibly
more ignominiously, our history of segregation and exclusion
has made us invisible, even though we are often stared at. One
cannot know disability without recognizing its complex and
perplexing particularities. Each paradox and contradiction,
irony or counter-instance, in their own way and constantly
changing and reinventing themselves, help illuminate what the
vast majority of disabled people do to survive such a
generally precarious state-of-being and what we, as an
oppressed group, must confront in order to transform it.
TIME: All lectures noon to 1:30 P.M.
LOCATION: 1810 Liacouras Conference Suite
Liacouras Walk, Temple University Main Campus
lunch provided • free & open to the public
Coming Events
April 15
Adrienne Asch, Yeshiva University, New York City, NY
"Disability Equality and Prenatal Testing; Contradictory or
Compatible?"
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Brian Zimmerman
Special Assistant to the Director
Institute on Disability
Temple University
1601 North Broad Street
USB Suite 610
Philadelphia PA 19122
215-204-4979
Fax: 215-204-6336
http://disabilities.temple.edu/
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Brian Zimmerman
Special Assistant to the Director
Institute on Disability
Temple University
1601 North Broad Street
USB Suite 610
Philadelphia PA 19122
215-204-4979
Fax: 215-204-6336
http://disabilities.temple.edu/
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