Sensory Futures
Dr. Michele Friedner (University of Chicago, Department of Comparative Human Development) is a medical anthropologist researching deaf and disabled peoples’ social, moral, religious, and economic practices, with a primary focus on deafness in India. She will join us to discuss her recently published book, Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India (University of Minnesota Press).
Sensory Futures explores new sensory infrastructures that have emerged in India and elsewhere because of the popularity of cochlear implants. Dr. Friedner examines the new kinds of sensory inequalities that develop and the ways that interventions might actually limit children's sensory, modal, and relational possibilities. She asks how we might examine and work towards other possible presents and futures in which there are multiple ways of being normal.
Presented by the WU Disability & Embodied Difference Reading Group, this event is sponsored by the WashU Center for the Humanities, and it is open to all WU faculty, students, and staff. Zoom automatic captioning will be provided.
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