{"id":13876,"date":"2019-10-18T14:21:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T18:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/?post_type=cu_event&p=13876"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:45:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:45:04","slug":"disability-futurity-dr-mike-gulliver-living-as-if-we-already-know-what-human-will-be","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/event\/disability-futurity-dr-mike-gulliver-living-as-if-we-already-know-what-human-will-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Disability Futurity – “Living as if we already know what \u2018human\u2019 will be: Exploring the anticipated futures of visual\/deaf humanity and how they shape the present”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Living as if we already know what \u2018human\u2019 will be: Exploring the anticipated futures of visual\/deaf humanity and how they shape the present<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n


\n<\/span>Dr. Mike Gulliver, Senior Research Associate, University of Bristol<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n


\n<\/span>The hope that \u201c\u2026 [we] need not accept our limitations, but can transcend disability through technological innovation\u201d (Herr 2014) is a key tenet of the Posthuman vision. For deaf people, this aspiration already shapes the present. With technologies to restore damaged hearing or prevent damage from occurring in the first place, commentators refer now to a \u2018post-deaf\u2019 reality (Davis 2008). A post-deaf world would be celebrated by many. However, for some deaf people\u2014those who see themselves not as disabled, but as a \u2018people of the eye\u2019 (Veditz 1910), and who celebrate their natural, sign languages and their unique, signed cultures as the global heritage of a \u2018visual form of humanity\u2019 (Bahan 2011)\u2014post-deafness represents not progress, but rather a narrowing of humanity towards a less diverse, less creative, less\u2026 \u2018human\u2019 future. Even as the idealism of post-deafness is challenged, however, its inevitability is already
\nbeing anticipated by present-day policy makers. As it becomes common to assume that technologies are now available to help deaf people choose to become \u2018hearing and speaking\u2019 people, alternatives to a post-deaf reality become more and more difficult to
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This seminar explores anticipated post-deafness, to uncover how future visions of disability (both real and imagined) shape the present, and the tension between our agency to keep the future open, and the inertia of the \u2018inevitable\u2019.
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This seminar is part of the <\/span>Disability Futurity <\/span><\/em>series organised by the CCDS in collaboration with Carleton University\u2019s Disability Research Group. The seminar presentation in Liverpool will be connected live by videoconference.<\/em>
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For information about <\/span>Disability Futurity<\/span>, please contact Professor David Bolt,
\n<\/span>boltd@hope.ac.uk<\/span>.
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For information about the Carleton University event, please contact Dr. Ryan Patterson,
\n<\/span>Ryan.Patterson@carleton.ca<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[62,67],"cu_event_audience":[19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27],"class_list":["post-13876","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-co-sponorship","cu_event_type-disability-studies","cu_event_audience-alumni","cu_event_audience-anyone","cu_event_audience-carleton-community","cu_event_audience-current-students","cu_event_audience-faculty","cu_event_audience-media","cu_event_audience-prospective-students","cu_event_audience-staff","cu_event_audience-staff-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2019-11-20T09:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2019-11-20T10:30:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"SA","cu_event_meeting_room":"617","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"Dr. Ryan Patterson","cu_event_email":"ryan.patterson@carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/13876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/13876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13891,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/13876\/revisions\/13891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=13876"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=13876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}