The Disabled Gaze In The History Of Science Lecture
This lecture is a public event in association with the British Society for the History of Science annual conference at Queen's University, Belfast and supported by VisitBelfast.
Date and Time
Fri, 22 July 2022
18:30 – 19:30 BST
In person or online
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Jaipreet Virdi is a scholar activist and Assistant Professor in the Department of History at University of Delaware. Her first book, Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History raises pivotal questions about deafness in American society and the endless quest for a cure. Her writing has appeared in Slate, The Atlantic, Psyche, The Wellcome Collection, and the New Internationalist.
She is on Twitter as @jaivirdi
You can read more about Dr Virdi and her work at her website
This lecture is a public event in association with the British Society for the History of Science annual conference at Queen's University, Belfast and supported by VisitBelfast. There will be ISL and BSL interpreters and we encourage members of the deaf community to attend. Sign language interpretation generously supported by VisitBelfast.
The event takes place at the Peter Froggatt Center (room 0G/007) on the Queen's University Campus. You can find it on this campus map.
You may also attend online. Register for this lecture via Eventbrite