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I hope this talk and seminar will be of interest to list subscribers - apologies for cross-posting. Rachel Hughes (Cambridge Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Group) __________________________________________________________________ "The Personal is Philosophical is Political: A Philosopher/Mother of a Cognitively Disabled Person Sends Notes from the Battlefield". Talk by Professor Eva Kittay of Centre for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics, Stony Brook University, USA. Time: 2 to 3.30pm Date: Wednesday 24th June Venue: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX Directions: see http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/page/9/centre-directions.htm The talk will be preceded by an informal seminar session on another of Professor Kittay's papers: "Beyond Autonomy and Paternalism - the Caring, Transparent Self" Time: 11.30 to 1pm Date: Wednesday 24th June Venue and directions as above. If you intend coming to the seminar session, Prof Kittay’s paper is published in the book Nys, T., Denier, Y., Vandevelde, T. (2007) Autonomy and Paternalism Reflections on the Theory and Practice of Health Care. Peeters Publishing (available on Google Books). About Eva Kittay: Eva Kittay is currently Professor of Philosophy, Senior Fellow of the Stony Brook Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics and an Affiliate of the Women’s Studies Program at Stony Brook University. She has published numerous articles in the areas that include philosophy of language, metaphor theory, feminist philosophy, feminist ethics, social and political theory, metaphor, and disability studies. She is also the mother of a woman with significant Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and has written widely reflecting on the question of cognitive disability and her personal encounter with her daughter’s disability. The talk and seminar are hosted by the Health and Welfare Group based at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge (http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/page/33/health-- welfare.htm) and both events are free. Please contact [log in to unmask] with any queries.