Disability: From 'medical tragedy' to 'mere difference'?

Over the last 30 years, 'disability' has been redefined, thanks to the efforts of people like Michael Oliver, Colin Barnes, Harlan Hahn and now Elizabeth Barnes.

Join Tom Shakespeare as he explores models of, and approaches to, disability and how we can balance the medical, social and cultural in understanding disability.

In this Discourse, discover how people understood disability in different places and times, how we should understand disability now, and how can we respond to the need to promote inclusion and equality.

Tom will offer a way of understanding impairment which takes into account environmental barriers, as well as the impact of bodies and minds that may function differently. How then should we respond to the challenge of disability?

Event type

This is a Theatre event, where the speaker and audience in our Theatre are joined by an online audience.

Tickets to attend in person or to watch the livestream are both available from this page.

Timing

Doors to the Theatre will open at about 6.50pm

We try and have all attendees must be seated in the Theatre by 7.25pm. The Discourse will start at 7.30pm.

A cash bar will be available from 6.15pm. It will open again after the talk, until 9.30pm.