HCRI Research Series: 10 Years of HCRI, Alison Howell
| Dates: | 21 March 2019 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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| Speaker: | Alison Howell |
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HCRI celebrates its 10 year anniversary with a rich programme of events. Join us for our research seminar series featuring current and alumni colleagues, and current and alumni postgraduate research students.
Seminar Title: From Eugenics to Resilience? Re-thinking the Connections between Race, Disability and War
Resilience is often understood as a new buzzword or recent framework for making sense of all sorts of things: infrastructure, ecology, humanitarian disasters, and the human mind. Yet ‘resilience’ did not appear from out of thin air. This talk will explore how psychological resilience science is indebted to racist and ableist modes of thought by illustrating the continuities and discontinuities between the United States Army’s eugenic intelligence testing in WWI and it’s post-9/11 resilience testing programme.
For more information about the Institute, our anniversary, events, and more, visit: https://www.hcri.manchester.ac.uk/about/10-years-hcri/
Speaker
Alison Howell
Role: Assistant Professor
Organisation: Rutgers University - The State University of New Jersey
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G.21
Mansfield Cooper Building
Manchester
