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SUMMARY:Conversations about Gender and Disability featuring Jo Longhurst
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DESCRIPTION:Our forthcoming SMS International Women's Day event is design
 ed to foster dialogue and action concerning disability and gender inclus
 ion. The lecture will be given by Jo Longhurst\, a UK-based artist\, and
  winner of the Canadian 2012 Grange Prize\, Canada’s highest award for e
 xcellence in international photography Jo will discuss her work on unsee
 n illnesses and her role as a member of a collective of non-binary creat
 ives and creative women who live with a variety of unseen conditions. We
  want to use this session to hold a mirror to our university culture\, h
 ighlighting unseen conditions within our work environment and supporting
  those who navigate the complexities and systems of university life\, wh
 ich does not easily accommodate the interruptions caused by illness and 
 disability.\n\n\nThe session will include a panel to respond to Jo’s ref
 lections and time for audience questions. This session will bring togeth
 er university staff and postgraduate students to create a platform that 
 amplifies voices and lived experiences shaped by gender and disability. 
 Significantly\, the forum will identify the priorities and experiences o
 f disabled staff members\, setting the stage for action and awareness in
  preparation for SMS’s next EDI (Equality\, Diversity\, and Inclusion) i
 nitiative in 2025\, which will focus on disability.\n\n\nChair: Professo
 r Rachel Cowen Professor of Inclusive Researcher and Academic Developmen
 t and University Academic Lead for Equality\, Diversity\, and Inclusion\
 n\n\nDiscussants: \n•	Beck Heslop (PGR\, CHSTM\, SMS)\n\n•	Dr Sabine Sha
 rp (eLearning Support)\n\n•	Rachel Heyes (Learning Technologist)\n\n\nLo
 cation:\nThere are two options for this event. First\, you can join in p
 erson in the Zochonis Building\, Lecture Theatre B. There will be coffee
  and cake served following the event. For those joining us online\, we w
 ill provide an online discussion after the event for 20 mins. \n \nJo's 
 bio:\nJo Longhurst is an artist who critiques traditions of portraiture 
 through a combination of photography\, sculptural elements\, moving imag
 e\, performance and installation. Collaborative works investigate the ac
 t of looking and being looked at: how we judge and are judged\, and how 
 we attempt to fit in. She has published three books: The Refusal\, for h
 er solo exhibition at Museum Folkwang\, Essen\; Other Spaces\, to accomp
 any her exhibition at Mostyn\, Llandudno and Ffotogallery\, Cardiff\; an
 d On Perfection: an Artists’ Symposium\, which documents an event Longhu
 rst staged at Whitechapel Gallery. Her work has won many awards includin
 g the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Grange Prize\, Canada’s highest award for
  excellence in international photography. In her most recent project Cri
 p\, Jo works with images of bindweed - an undesirable\, marginalised pla
 nt\, which grows in an anti-clockwise direction - and 19C portraits of f
 emale patients in European medical institutions\, to explore the concept
  of crip time. This theory elaborates on how the disabled\, neurodiverge
 nt\, and chronically ill experience time and space differently from othe
 rs.\n\n[https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/edi-sms/t-lnalgog Register now to
  get your free ticket] \n
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre B \, Zochonis Building\, Manchester
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