Over the past year, the DRF blog has welcomed over 120 subscribers and received well over 13,600 hits. Today we are please to announce the seminar schedule for 2011-2012 as well as full details for the first seminar on 11th October. More information on the venue can be found here and we’d like to take this opportunity to remind all presenters of the Accessible Presenting Info here. We look forward to productive and engaging discussions ahead.
1. 11th October 2011 (Tues) 1pm-3pm
Slot 1: Jayne Sellick (Department of Geography, University of Durham): The temporality of disabled identities: Examples from participatory work
Abstract: This paper explores the role of time and temporalities in the past and present experiences of participants, who as part of the project self-defined with a disabled identity. Drawing from a Participatory Action Research (P.A.R) agenda, stories relating to disability, impairment, health, chronic pain and illness were recalled. Using empirical examples I will explore the temporality of these experiences by thinking through the (non)representational.
Slot 2: Nick Hodge (Department of Education, Childhood and Inclusion, Sheffield Hallam University): Misreading Arthur: Ableism at work in psychoanalysis and counselling
Abstract: Highly developed levels of reflection and self awareness by therapists and counsellors and the acceptance, and celebration, of the personal position of the client are foundational principles of counselling practice. It would be expected, therefore, that the counselling room might be the one space that would transcend the spectres of ableism (Campbell, 2009). However, the experiences of disabled people suggest that even here ableism continues to assert its insidious and invasive control (Reeve, 2000). This paper, by critiquing a particular account of psychotherapy with a disabled child, explores a number of ways in which ableism operates within the counselling room and negotiates the challenge of transversing different epistemic positions (Mackenzie and Leach Scully, 2007). The paper concludes by suggesting that only by watching their watching and reading their readings (Titchkosky, 2007) through an ‘inside-out’ approach (Williams, 1996) might counsellors reveal, confront and exorcise the spectres of ableism.
2. 16th November 2011 (Weds) 2pm-4pm
3. 6th December 2011 (Tues) 12pm-2pm
4. 8th February 2012 (Weds) 1pm-3pm
5. 15th March 2012 (Thurs) 1.30pm-3.30pm
6. 18th April 2012 (Weds) 1pm-3pm
7. 3rd May 2012 (Thurs) 2pm-4pm
Details of the other seminars will follow shortly.
If you, or anybody you know, would like to present at a DRF seminar please do get in touch. Alternatively, let us know if there is an issue/article/book on which you’d like to facilitate discussion. Please email Rebecca Mallett: r.mallett@shu.ac.uk
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