What is Research Now?

The Paul Mellon Centre's “What is Research Now?” series is back. The spring edition is titled “Disabled Legacies: Beyond Access and Inclusion”. It is led by the questions: Can the legacies of Disability Art and Culture take us beyond “access” and “inclusion”? Can Disability Justice help us create and lead all of us to live better lives? 

The programme—through a series of talks, performances and workshops—will explore not only histories of Disability but ways of thriving and being, arguing that Disability Justice can be not just a subject of study but a method and mode of being.  

Join us for talks, conversations, and workshops by: Jill H. Casid, Kenny Fries, Khairani Barokka, Sria Chatterjee, Resting Museum, Simon Watney, Abi Palmer, Sandy Ho, Hannah Wallis, Quiplash, Jaipreet Virdi, Shivaangee Agrawal. 

Attend in person or join us online via Zoom—tickets available for both options.

Friday February 27
Disability, Othering and Victimhood: Some Lessons from the AIDS Crisis with Simon Watney; Disabled Legacy, Wisdom and Advocacy as Philanthropy and Efforts to Sustain Disability Movements Towards Generational Abundance with Sandy Ho; Don't Worry, I'm Just On Quip Time: Unambitiousness and Access First Working by Amelia Lander-Cavallo (Quiplash) and Shivaangee Agrawal.

Saturday February 28
Abi Palmer Invents the Weather/Intrusion: A Manifesto by Abi Palmer; Disability as Method: A Conversation with Rebecca Sanchez and Jill H. Casid; A History of Deafness in Modern Britain, a talk by Jaipreet Virdi.

Book free tickets for this gathering and related events here.