A series of free online talks from ManMetUni: Research and Knowledge Exchange for Disability History Month
You will need to register for each talk - the dates, times, and links for each talk are set out below
Talk 1
Wed, 3 November 2021 - 18:00 โ 19:30 GMT
๐๐๐๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ฌ: ๐๐๐๐๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ
๐๐ซ ๐๐๐ข๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐๐ข explores the experience of hearing loss, and attempts to โcureโ deafness in Anglo-American culture in the 19th and 20th centuries. She shows that deafness was a widespread experience, and examines the evolution of hearing technologies โ particularly hearing aids โ as objects of desire as well as assistive technology.
Talk 2
Wed, 10 November 2021 - 18:00 โ 19:30 GMT
๐๐ข๐ซ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ ๐ซ๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ ๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐๐ง๐๐ก๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ
๐๐ซ ๐๐๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐ฒ๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฅ๐จ๐๐ค examines the practice of pilgrimage in Manchester and the North-West in the 18th and 19th centuries, showing how people sought miracle cures for a range of illnesses and impairments.
Talk 3
Wed, 17 November 2021 - 18:00 โ 19:30 GMT
๐๐ข๐ฌ๐๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ง๐๐ข๐๐ง๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐
๐๐ซ ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐-๐๐๐ฒ๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ก๐๐ฆ uses archaeological evidence from Ancient Rome to explore disability in the classical world. She uses votives โ models of the human body made as offerings to the gods โ to ask what it was like to have a physical impairment in Roman Italy. This is a joint paper with the Manchester Classical Association and Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage.
Talk 4
Wed, 24 November 2021 - 18:00 โ 19:30 GMT
๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐, ๐๐๐๐-๐๐๐๐
๐๐ซ ๐๐ข๐ฆ๐จ๐ง ๐๐๐ซ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ญ traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of eighteenth-century England to the nineteenth-century asylum and care in todayโs society. Using evidence from civil and criminal court-rooms, joke books, slang dictionaries, novels, art and caricature, this talk brings into sharp focus the lives of people often seen as the most marginalized in society.
