Critical Disability Studies Conference: “Theorizing Normalcy and the Mundane” 2011
Dates and Venue:
Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th September 2011
~ 10am-4.30pm each day
held at Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
A free conference co-hosted by the Research Institute of Health and Social Change at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), University of Chester, University of Iceland, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto and Sheffield Hallam University.
This two day conference builds upon the first, and hugely successfully, ‘Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane’ conference held in May 2010. It brings together an international group of researchers and will address diverse issues including:
- exploring the cultural and political production of normalcy
- addressing our obsession with reason and rationality
- connecting ableism with other hegemonies including heterosexism, racism and ageism
- analysing the barriers and possibilities of the mundane and extraordinary
- deconstructing new pathologies and ‘abnormalities’