VariAbilities Keynote Address: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University |
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“Performing the Ethics of Disability”
DESCRIPTION: Crafting personas and public performance is one way that persons with disabilities claim space and agency as culture and arts makers. What are the ethics of performing disability? Where do we find disability performance—not only in circus arts, but in visual arts, dance, theatrical performance? And what are the ethics of looking and of inviting or demanding the public’s gaze? BIO: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Professor of English & Bioethics, Emory University, is a disability justice and culture thought leader, bioethicist, teacher, and scholar of the humanities. Her 2016 editorial, “Becoming Disabled,” was the inaugural article in the ongoing weekly series in the New York Times about disability by people living with disabilities. VariAbilities is co-hosted by New College of Florida; John & Mable Ringling Museum and Tibbals Center; and University of Winchester; Funding provided additionally by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. |