The Art and Ethics of Disability Culture

On October 8th from 3:30-4:30pm, you are invited to hear from Rosemarie Garland-Thomson on "The Art and Ethics of Disability Culture from Sophocles to Scott.” This presentation considers the cultural and ethical work of representation, focusing on the history of disability culture, art, and ethics. It offers a broad range of art, literature, film, performance, dance, and design as examples of ways disability comes into meaning through cultural products and shapes ethical practice. This brief history of disability meaning making in the Western tradition begins with Sophocles’ "Oedipus the King" and continues through the sculptures of the American disabled artist Judith Scott.

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About the Speaker

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is professor emerita of English and bioethics at Emory University. Her expertise in disability bioethics, critical disability studies, and health humanities brings disability culture, ethics, and justice to a broad range of institutions and communities. She is a Hastings Center Fellow and senior advisor, a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar, a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is co-editor of "About Us: Essays from the New York Times about Disability by People with Disabilities" and author of "Staring: How We Look," and several other books.