The Unseeing Eye: Disability and the Hauntology of Derrida’s Ghost. A Story in Three Parts. 
 
Dr Alan Hodkinson 
 
Date: Wednesday 13 January, 2016
Time: 2.15pm–3.45pm
Place: Eden036, Liverpool Hope University, UK
 
In this paper Dr Hodkinson will tell a story by employing the three stanzas of Thomas Hardy’s poem ‘The Self-Unseeing’ to tremble the picture of disability located in the pedagogical materials in English Schools. By mobilising and then reversing Derrida’s concept of the visor and the ghost, as well as Bentham’s Panopticon, this story reveals the power and voice of the Them, the Their, and the They. By materialising a ghost of the real of disability within a utopia of hope, as a magnificent Being, this story deconstructs the power of Their transparent house and thus presents a space for the ‘real’ voice of disability to be heard.
 
 
Alan Hodkinson is Associate Professor in the Department of Disability and Education at Liverpool Hope University, where he is a core member of the CCDS. He is author of Key Issues in Special Educational Needs and Inclusion (SAGE, 2016). He has made a number of contributions to the work of the CCDS, including chapters in Disability, Avoidance and the Academy (Routledge, 2016) and Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability (Routledge, 2014), and papers at seminars and conferences.  
 
 
This seminar is part of the CCDS series, The Voice of Disability. Other dates include:
10 Feb 2016, Two Voices and Disability: a Voice of Inscription and a Voice of Re-Constitution, Tom Campbell.
02 Mar 2016, Unexpected Anatomies: Extraordinary Bodies in Contemporary Art, Ann M Fox.
20 Apr 2016, “The President has been shot”: Reagan, Wounded Heroes and the Cyborg Soldier in American Science Fiction of the 1980s, Susan Smith.
25 May 2016, Tales from the Crip: Narrative Reconstructions of the Storyteller’s Disabled Male Body in Contemporary Gothic Fiction, Alan Gregory.
29 Jun 2016, Voices of Becoming, Laura Waite. 
For further information please contact:
Dr. David Bolt
Director of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies.
 
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