[Commpsych] FW: Seminar: Dis/humanism: Recapturing the human in inclusive education and dis/ability studies

[Heather Gridley]

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From: Teah Farrugia
Sent: Monday, 26 May 2014 4:25 PM
To: Global Announcements; College of Arts (college.arts at groups.vu.edu.au)
Subject: [college.arts] Seminar: Dis/humanism: Recapturing the human in inclusive education and dis/ability studies

Professor Pat Drake, Dean, College of Education, Victoria University, invites you to the forthcoming Seminar

Dis/humanism: Recapturing the human in inclusive education and dis/ability studies


Presenters:
Dan Goodley
University of Sheffield, School of Education
Katherine Runswick Cole
Manchester Metropolitan University, Research Institute for Health and Social Change


Date: Thursday 24 July 2014
Time: 2.00pm – 3.00pm
Venue: TBA

ABSTRACT:
In this paper we seek to develop an understanding of the human that is driven by a commitment to the politics of disabled people and learners with developmental disabilities. Our position as family members, friends and allies to people associated with this phenomenon of developmental disability directly influences our ‘philosophical conceptions of cognitive disability’ by virtue of our personal experiences that create an ‘inextricable relationship between the personal, the value of the political, and the philosophical’ (Kittay, 2009: 606). This has led us to recently develop a theory of dis/humanism which, we contend, simultaneously acknowledges the possibilities offered by disability to trouble, re-shape and re-fashion the human (crip understandings of personhood) while simultaneously asserting disabled people’s humanity (normative understandings of personhood). In this paper we will sketch out three dis/humanist projects: (i) dis/autonomy, voice and evacuating the human individual; (ii) dis/independence, assemblage and collective humanness and (iii) dis/ability politics, self-advocacy and the re-siting of the human. We argue that this feeds into the wider project of dis/ability studies (Goodley, 2014).

References
Goodley, D. (2014). Dis/ability studies: Theorising ableism and disableism.  London: Routledge.
Kittay, E.F. (2009) The pesonal is philosophical is political: a philospher and mother of a cognitively disabled person sends notes from the battlefield, Metaphilosophy, 40: 2-4: 606-627

RSVP: 18 July 2014, to Teah Farrugia - email: teah.farrugia at vu.edu.au<mailto:teah.farrugia at vu.edu.au>



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