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Disability and the Future: Conserving and Promoting Human Diversity

Presented by Senator John Heinz History Center at Senator John Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh PA

Oct 25 2019
Disability and the Future: Conserving and Promoting Human Diversity

Join author and celebrated disability theorist Rosemarie Garland-Thomson for an evening at the History Center with disability activists, scholars, and bioethicists from across America.

Garland-Thomson, whose publications include “Staring: How We Look” and “Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature,” will speak on the importance of the survival of human difference in an era defined by genome-editing techniques and conversations around “curing” and “preventing” disabilities.

ADMISSION INFO

Admission is free and open to the public.

LOCATION

Senator John Heinz History Center

1212 Smallman St., Pittsburgh, PA 15222