Disability Rights and Contemporary Challenges A Memorial Conference for Professor Eithne McLaughlin School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Queen’s University Belfast: Wednesday 9th Sept Contact: for
Morning session: Registration, Coffee and Tea 9.30 –10.00am Formal Welcome: Margrit Shildrick and Myrtle Hill Professor Monica McWilliams (NI Human Rights Chief Commissioner) Disability Rights - the need for champions and for change – plus 10 minutes for questions Break The Eithne McLaughlin Memorial Lecture Professor Marcia Rioux (York U, Toronto) – plus 20 minutes for questions Panel 1: The Impact of the Disability Rights Discourse 12 – 1pm Chair: Dr Bronagh Byrne Speakers: Dr Karl Nunkoosing (Portsmouth University) Dr Bernie Kelly (QUB) Dr Griet Roets (Ghent University) Questions Lunch: a light lunch is provided free of charge 1.00 – 2.00pm
Afternoon session Prof. Carol Thomas (Lancaster U.) The Social Model of Disability and Rights Discourse: One and the Same? 2.00 – 2.30 plus 20 minutes for questions Prof. David Mitchell (Temple University, Philadelphia) 3.00 –3.30pm plus 20mins questions Break Panel discussion: Beyond Rights? 4.10 – 5.15pm Chair : David Mitchell (Temple University, Philadelphia) Nancy Hanson (Disability Studies, U. Manitoba) Janet Price (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) Ailbhe Smyth (Womens Studies, UCD) Sally Wheeler (QUB Law Department) Close
Early evening event by invitation 6.30pm Book Launch and Wine Reception: at No Alibis (Botanic Avenue) Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Subjectivity and Sexuality (Margrit Shildrick). Supported by Palgrave Macmillan.