Jeudi 11 mai 18h – 20h en ligne
6th session of the “Invisible Lives, Silent Voices” International Seminar co-organised by Alice Borrego (EMMA, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Héloïse Lecomte (IRHIM, ENS Lyon), Dr Gero Guttzeit (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München) and Professor Esther Peeren (ASCA, University of Amsterdam).
Invisible Lives, Silent Voices: Disability Studies – Dr Hannah Thompson (Royal Holloway University of London) & Dr Dan Goodley (University of Sheffield); Chair: Dr Daniel Schneider (LMU Munich)
Dan Goodley (University of Sheffield) - “Invisible Lives, Silent Voices: For People with Learning Disabilities”
This paper emerges from a project that seeks to engage with those whose health priorities are silenced; whose lives are often invisible. I sit with some contributions of postcolonial and critical disability scholarship that I believe are responsive to the lives and aspirations of People with Learning Disabilities. The term learning disabilities is the one used in the UK with other labels being used in different countries ranging from development disabilities, intellectual disabilities and cognitive impairments. I will refrain from offering a mainstream administrative definition of learning disabilities – which would normally refer to issues of competence, intelligence and maladaptive functioning - in response to the wider aims of this paper to centralise people so-labelled in broader and more affirmative discussions of humanity. I draw upon a specific concept developed by the postcolonial scholar Sylvia Wynter Wynter, 1992, 2003, 2006; Wynter and McKittrick, 2015): being human as praxis to read some aspects of the lives of People with Learning Disabilities*. Following Wynter I approach the phenomenon of the human less as a noun and more as a verb**: human being. This dynamic, active and inclusive understanding of being human offers a significant and original insight for social theory across the social sciences and humanities. This analytical encounter addresses the invisibility of people with Learning Disabilities in social theory and the subsequent theoretical silence.
*I have deliberately capitalised People with Learning Disabilities, Black and Disabled People to recognise their centrality to this paper and the scholarship introduced in this paper.
**Described by Sylvia Wynter in her conversations with Katherine McKittrick – Wynter, S. And McKittrick. Unparalleled catastrophe for our species? Or, to give humanness a difference future: Conversation. In K.McKittrick (Ed). (2015). Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Hannah Thompson (Royal Holloway University of London) - “(In)Visible in the Gallery: The Paradox of Blind Art Appreciation"
This paper will investigate the paradoxical position of the blind person in the art gallery. At once hyper-visible and non-existent, the blind person is an uncomfortable presence in the gallery because they function as both a reminder of the gallery’s insistence on the primary of the sense of sight and proof that sight is not necessary to appreciate art. Focusing on the various kinds of audio description that exist – or might be created – in the gallery, Thompson will use her notion of ‘blindness gain’ to invite a radical rethinking of the relationship between verbal and pictural art.
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Alice Borrego vous invite à une réunion Zoom planifiée.
Sujet : ILSV - Disability Studies
Heure : 11 mai 2023 06:00 PM Paris
Participer à la réunion Zoom : https://univ-montp3-fr.zoom.us/j/98012916424?pwd=OGNhdXp1L3BLNEt0aCtIUVZ...