VIRTUAL EVENT: Disability, autofiction and moral imagination

In this webinar, Claudia Schumann will argue that discourses around disability give additional reason to critically revisit the status and understanding of rationality in relation to moral theory, as well as the relation between rationality and fiction.

Starting from Alice Crary’s recent writings on disability and moral status, Schumann will explore two books edited and authored by a group of Swedish LGBTQ youth with disabilities.

The texts produced blend poetry and prose, fiction, autofiction and documentary portrayals. They provide both a place for the sharing of experience, as well as for reclaiming and making visible their own identities as sexed and as sexual beings, aspects often disregarded in public perception of persons with disability.

The texts also shed light on the philosophical exchange between Peter Singer and Eva Feder Kittay, and how philosophical assumptions on disability are tested in conversation with and in disturbing opposition to the needs and sensitivities of those who are affected. 

PESGB seminar series

The Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB) is a learned society that promotes the study, teaching and application of philosophy of education. Its London Branch hosts seminars every Wednesday in conjunction with Philosophy at the Institute of Education. 

These seminars are led by national and international scholars in the field, covering a wide range of issues of educational and philosophical concern. All are welcome to attend.

Links

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• Philosophy at the Institute of Education
• Department of Education, Practice and Society