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Oct
25
2019
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