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Cultural Rights public lecture series: Unity in Diversity Monday 12th November, 2012, 6.00pm - 7.30pm. At “The Light” Rights and Humanity’s venue at The Royal Liver Building, Pier Head, Liverpool, L3 1HU, UK. Culture and Disability: Theorising the Social Encounter In this public lecture Dr David Bolt provides an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of cultural disability studies. In doing so he demonstrates the educational value of diversity and explores the impact of culture on people who have impairments, the way in which the widely represented myths of disability are rehearsed and reinforced in social encounters. Dr Bolt is Director of the Centre for Culture & Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University. He is founding editor of the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies (Liverpool University Press). He is co-editor of The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability (Ohio State University Press, 2012) and his monograph, The Metanarrative of Blindness, is forthcoming in Corporealities: Discourses of Disability (University of Michigan Press). Admission Prices £8 per lecture in the series Student Series Rate: £5 per lecture Refreshments will be available on arrival. Book the Series via [log in to unmask] or direct on 0151 236 2426 ________________End of message________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about list administration should be sent to [log in to unmask] Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page.