Disability and the Emotions
Seminar series hosted by the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies
No crying in disability studies, that was the rule set by Joseph Shapiro’s No Pity in 1993, only to be broken a few years later by Elizabeth J. Donaldson and Catherine Prendergast at the 2000 MLA conference. In the decade that followed there was a proliferation of work on emotion, especially affect, which culminated in Donaldson and Prendergast’s Representing Disability and Emotion, a themed issue of JLCDS published in 2011. Since then the CCDS has engaged with the subject of emotion recurrently. For instance, Tom Coogan and Rebecca Mallett guest edited a special issue of JLCDS that focused on humour (2013), Marie Caslin critiqued the category of BESD in Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability (2014), and Emmeline Burdett returned to the matter of pity in Disability, Avoidance and the Academy (2016). The CCDS is now set to sustain this engagement by hosting the following seminars at Liverpool Hope University in a series entitled Disability and the Emotions.
5th Oct 2016, Affect and the Disability Encounter, Dr Ria Cheyne
16th Nov 2016, Pride and Prejudice – Emotions in the lives of fathers of autistic children, Ms Joanne Heeney
14th Dec 2016, “An Unstable and Fantastical Space of Absence”: The Entanglement of Memory and Emotion, Dr Margaret Price
18th Jan 2017, Pain as Emotional Experience, Ms Emma Sheppard
1st Mar 2017, “For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts”: Dis/enabling Narratives and the Affect of Pity in Oscar Wilde’s “The Birthday of the Infanta”, Prof Chris Foss
10th May 2017, A Secret Worth Knowing: Living Mad Lives in the Shadow of the Asylum, Dr Michael Rembis
For more information visit the CCDS website (http://ccds.hope.ac.uk/ourseminars.htm) or contact Dr David Bolt.
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