Disability Rights and Contemporary

ChallengesA Memorial Conference for

Professor Eithne McLaughlin

School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work,

Queen’s University Belfast:

Wednesday 9th Sept. 2009

Contact: m.shildrick@qub.ac.uk for details

Morning session:

Registration, Coffee and Tea 9.30 –10.00am

Formal Welcome: Margrit Shildrick and Myrtle Hill 9.45 - 10.00

Professor Monica McWilliams (NI Human Rights Chief Commissioner)

Disability Rights - the need for champions and for change.

10.00 – 10.30 plus 10 minutes for questions

Break

The Eithne McLaughlin Memorial Lecture

Professor Marcia Rioux (York U, Toronto)11.00 – 11.40 plus 20 minutes for questions

Panel 1: The Impact of the Disability Rights Discourse

12 – 1pm Chair: Dr Bronagh ByrneSpeakers:Dr Karl Nunkoosing (Portsmouth University)Dr Bernie Kelly (QUB)Dr Griet Roets (Ghent University)Questions. -------------------------------------------------------------Lunch: a light lunch is provided free of charge1.00 – 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 5.15 - 5.30

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.