Join us for a virtual lecture by Dr. Michele Friedner (University of Chicago) discussing her open access book, Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India, which won the 2023 Rachel Carson Prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science.
A compelling and nuanced ethnography with deaf children and their families, audiologists, speech and language pathologists, surgeons, cochlear implant manufacturers, and government officials, Sensory Futures documents how cochlear implants come to be heralded as a normalizing technology in ways that narrows the possibilities for communicative abundance. In attending to the multi-sensorial processes by which knowledge and experiences of the world are produced and valued, Friedner traces the worlds that cochlear implants afford and constrain, skillfully manoeuvring through global political economies, socio-technical infrastructures, transnational understandings of childhood disability, and much more.
Dr. Friedner will be joined by Carleton discussants Marie-Eve Carrier-Mosian and Kendal David, with discussion moderated by Kelly Fritsch.
Register at: https://carleton.ca/readi/cu-events/sensory-futures/
Captioning and ASL interpretation will be provided. This event is part of Carleton’s Critical Disability Studies Discussion Series on Disability, Accessibility, and Technology, , sponsored by Research and Education in Accessibility, Design, and Innovation (READi); Joint Chair in Women’s Studies (JCWS) at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University; Carleton’s Disability Justice and Crip Culture Collaboratory (DJCCC); Carleton’s Graduate Collaborative Specialization in Accessibility; Carleton’s School of Social Work; and Carleton’s Feminist Institute of Social Transformation (FIST).