The meeting format is fairly flexible. However 'standard' items include:

We meeting bi-monthly on the first Friday of the Month.

If you would like to give 15 minute presentation, contact our 

Topic &Calendar co-ordinator Lesley Chenoweth 

Meeting Schedule

Date:            7th June 2001, * Please note change of date

Time:          1pm - 3pm.

Location:   Griffith University Logan Campus, Centre for Human Services (Level 1, Academic 1 Building).

Presenter:     Jayne Clapton

Topic:         Tragedy and Catastrophe: Contentious discourses of ethics and disability.

The presentation will be an overview of my paper presented at Cambridge in April, 2001 for the Special Interest Research Group on Ethics within IASSID. (The focus of this meeting was to explore the impact of the Human Genome Project on people with intellectual disability.) My  paper identifies and explores two dominant discourses that seemingly underpin ethical considerations about people with intellectual disability in this current biotechnological era. I contend that these discourses, which I identify as tragedy and catastrophe, are constructed from conjunctions of particular theoretical understandings of disability and particular frameworks of ethics. The paper asserts that the identification and deconstruction of these discourses, and their implicit ethical agendas, cannot be ignored and indeed should be challenged, when considering the impact of technological and scientific advances such as the Human Genome Project.

Date:            3rd August 2001, 

Time:           

Location:    TBA

Presenter:    Fiona AK Campbell   

N.B.                A background paper to be read prior to meeting and discussion: 

                        BACK TO BLACK: Ending Internalised Racism – bell hooks.

Topic:           "Internalised ableism : the tyranny of disability self-hatred"

Just as many of people of colour have experienced internalised racism by living within an environment of hegemonic whiteness, so to have many people with disabilities internalised ableism, a view that suggests that disability is inherently negative negating any prospects of ‘pride’. This presentation opens with a discussion of internalised ableism and the manifestations of disability self-hatred. I argue that such concerns/debates need to be brought into the heart of an emancipatory disability politics and any programmes for change.  Until this encounter takes place, discussion of disability will continue to become locked into the realm of ambivalence and altruism based on the goodwill of  (‘non-disabled’) others.

Date:            5th October 2001, 

Time:           

Location:   

Topic:           To be confirmed.

Date:            7th December 2001 (To be confirmed, depending any clashes with conference dates).

Time:           

Location:    

Topic:           To be confirmed.

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