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 is free and open to the public.
2019/10/25 - 2019/10/25
Senator John Heinz History Center
1212 Smallman St., Pittsburgh, PA 15222