Future Past: Disability, Eugenics, and Brave New Worlds | Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability

Modeled after a street pole, Past and Future are at a crossroads and pole is a DNA strand. Additional text provides event details also listed on this page.

Event Date: Friday, November 01, 2013

Location: Seven Hill Conference Center

A public symposium on the history and ongoing implications of eugenic ideologies and practices for people with disabilities. Why do these issues matter? How can we address them in teaching and pedagogy, in policy and activism, and in art? The event will include a dinner reception and an evening sneak-preview film screening of Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement.

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Future Past: Disability, Eugenics, and Brave New Worlds