“An Unstable and Fantastical Space of Absence”: The Entanglement of Memory and Emotion
Dr Margaret Price, Ohio State University
Date: Wednesday 14 December, 2016
Time: 2.15pm–3.45pm
Place: EDEN 109, Liverpool Hope University, UK
Memory (memoria), the fifth canon of rhetoric, is attached in powerful ways to the ways that humans feel, and feel about one another. To lose one’s memory is to be disabled in a particularly abject way—a way that calls into question whether one is, indeed, fully human. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 37 disabled faculty members from the US, UK, and Canada, Dr Price analyzes the emotional labor performed by academics as they self-accommodate for impaired memory. As the study shows, the experience of memory impairment is not confined to one sort of disability, but instead is associated with a wide range of conditions, including chronic pain, brain injuries, mental illness, physically debilitating diseases such as multiple sclerosis, and communication-related disabilities. This study’s findings also suggest ways that academic environments could be made more accessible for those with memory impairments.
Margaret Price is Associate Professor of Rhetoric/Composition and Disability Studies at The Ohio State University. Her book Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life (2011) won the Outstanding Book Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Her work has appeared in Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, Disability Studies Quarterly, Hypatia, and the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, for which she is also Occasional Reviewer.
This seminar is part of the CCDS series, Disability and the Emotions. Other dates include:
18 Jan 2017, Pain as emotional experience, Emma Sheppard.
01 Mar 2017, For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts, Chris Foss.
10 May 2017, A secret worth knowing, Michael Rembis.
Also, Disability and Disciplines, the International Conference on Educational, Cultural, and Disability Studies is taking place 5-6 July, 2017.
For further information please contact: Dr David Bolt
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