CDS Seminars and Events

Next Events

The Future of Inclusive Education: Future Bright or Future in Crisis?

2 April 2012, 9.30am. to 4.30pm.
The Centre for Disability Studies, University of Leeds invites you to attend a one-day conference to debate the future of Inclusive Education in the UK.

CDS seminars

The Centre runs a regular and lively seminar series featuring guest lecturers (generally once per month during term time). All of these events are open to members of the disability community as well as to university staff and students.

We welcome suggestions for future guest speakers from academia, disability activism, and the wider policy community (see above for forthcoming dates).

Recent seminars have included:

• Dr Chris Till The “Theoretically Perfect Physical Machine”: War, Disablement and the Capitalisation of Masculine Bodies
• Dr Tom Campbell 'The disabled peoples movement: An affirmative biopolitics'
• Professor Nick Watson - '75% on sick are skiving': Reporting disability in the age of austerity
• Judy Hunt 'The Origins of the UK disabled people's movement: Learning from history'
• Dr Jenny Morris 'Independent living and government policy: triumph or tragedy?'
• Stephen Marsh QC 'DDA. RIP. What Next? Rights and Disabled People'
• Bassey Ebenso (University of Leeds) 'Life-course perspectives on leprosy-related stigma: insights into processes of stigmatization and disability causation in Western Nigeria'.
• Karen Beauchamp-Pryor (University of Swansea) ' The participation of disabled students in higher education policy and provision: “If they are going to consult, then they have to really listen”'
• John Fuller (Strategic Policy Director, Independent Living Fund) ‘The Independent Living Fund - supporting disabled people in the 21st century’
• Shaun Grech (Manchester Metropolitan University) 'Disability, International Development and the Majority world: critical concerns for a global disability studies'
• Dr Alison Wilde (Univeristy of York) 'Who do we want to be? Disability, impairment and cultural representation'
• Dr Bill Armer (University of Leeds) 'A Developing Social Conscience, or Applied Eugenics? – A brief overview of selected UK social policies since 1902'
• Professor Kuoyu Wang (Department of Social Welfare, National Chung Cheng University, Chia-yi, Taiwan) 'Do different cultures and societies need different approaches? The social model of disability and the implications for Taiwan'
• Professor Nora Groce ( University College London) 'Rethinking disability and development: what dialogue should we be having with global health and development organizations?'
• Allan Sutherland (Edward Lear Foundation) "The other tradition: from personal politics to disability arts"
• Hitomi Honda (World Vision) 'Disability mainstreaming in the development process'
• seminar and film: 'Todd Browning's Freaks' (introduced by Prof Colin Barnes). Seminar Room, Beech Grove House
• guest lecture by Leonard Davis (University of Illinois, Chicago)
• Margaret Price (Spelman College, USA) 'Assaults on the Ivory Tower: Representations of madness in the discourse of media school shootings'
• Mark Harrison (University of East Anglia) 'Disability: Still Excluded from the Development Agenda? Messages from the disability knowledge and research agenda'
• Robert McRuer (Dept of English, George Washington University, USA) 'Re-presenting Disability: Million Dollar Baby, Tropic Thunder, and Anti-National Sexual Positions'
• Professor Carol Thomas (University of Lancaster), 'Sociologies of Illness and Disability'
• Frances Hasler (Head of User and Public Involvement, Commission for Social Care Inspectorate), ‘The Power of Involvement’.
• Professor Peter Beresford (Brunel University) 'Violence and Psychiatry: Rethinking relationships'
• Suzie Miles (University of Manchester) 'Inclusive Education in a Majority World Context'.
• Alan Roulstone (De Montford University) Leicester.
• Members of the CHANGE organisation and research fellow Ruth Garbutt (Sociology and Social Policy) Talking about sex and relationships: the views of young people.

Conferences

Since 1995 the Centre has hosted a number of significant seminars and conferences on disability issues, in addition to seminars and dissemination events arising from our research projects. Papers from these conferences are featured in some of the books available from our publishing house The Disability Press.

CDS also supports the development of disability studies through major international conferences. The inaugaral conference of the UK Disability Studies Association was jointly organised by CDS and colleagues at the Universities of York and Lancaster. Following the success of this event, this consortium has organised a second, third and fourth bienniel conference.

In 2007, PhD students at Leeds organised an entirely student-run international postgraduate conference in Leeds (leading to publication of a student edited book). We hope that this event will become a regular feature of the research calendar. PhD students organised a postgraduate conference on disability and cultural studies in February 2008.