D4D Futurity: Disability Today and Tomorrow  

19th September 2019
EDEN Arbour Room, Liverpool Hope University
BSL Interpreted Event

Disability futurity refers to the disability of the future; the future of disability. The Centre for Culture and Disability Studies is collaborating on a number of events that initiate and investigate multiple theories, representations, and concepts around this theme. What does an aging population mean for disability identity?  If a growing number of people are expected to experience disability, how should the experiential knowledge of disabled people in the present be regarded and rendered? What are the implications of these non-normative ways of knowing? These and related questions are to be explored by contributors to the AHRC- funded D4D project in a symposium hosted by the CCDS.

Attendance is free of charge but delegates are required to book via Liverpool Hope’s online store on or before 5 September: https://store.hope.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-education/d4d-futurity-disability-today-tomorrow/d4d-futurity-disability-today-and-tomorrow-symposium-19th-sept-19

Programme

10.00-10.10 Welcome to the CCDS by Prof David Bolt, Liverpool Hope University.
10.10-11.00 Keynote presentation
‘Disability, Posthumanism and Technological Futures’ by Prof Stuart Murray, University of Leeds.
11.00-11.15 Morning coffee 
11.15-11.30 Introduction to the D4D project by Prof Martin Levinson, Bath Spa University.
11.30-12.30 D4D panel 1
‘Hostile Environments: Down’s Syndrome and the Economic Imaginary’ by Dr Lucy Burke, Manchester Metropolitan University. 
‘Writing, Not Drowning:  Can we Engage Empathy and Eventually Effect Change Through Literary Fiction?’ By Dr Tanvir Bush, Bath Spa University.
12.30-1.30 Lunch
1.30-2.45 D4D panel 2
‘“A Different Way of Engaging”: Poems from the Words of the Late Katherine Araniello’. By Allan Sutherland, Independent.
‘“The Cheapest Kind of Understanding”: Intersectional Marginalisation in Disability Rights?’ By Stephanie Harvey, Bath Spa University. 
‘Inclusive Research Inquiry into Learning Disabled Creative Arts Practice; the Affective and the Spatial’ By Andy Auld, Bath Spa University. 
2.45-3.00 Afternoon tea
3.00-3.50 Concluding Discussion on ways Forward, Chaired by Dr Lucy Burke, Manchester Metropolitan University.
3.50-4.00 Closing words by Prof David Bolt, Liverpool Hope University.   


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