The Department of Disability Studies, Faculty for Social Wellbeing, University of Malta, in collaboration with the Commission for the Rights of Persons with Disability, is inviting you to a dialogue with Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Professor Eva Kittay, world-renowned scholar in Disability Studies and Feminist Ethics from Stonybrook University, New York and a mother of a grown daughter with severe cognitive impairments. This meeting is open to all parents of children with disabilities.
Date : Thursday, 10 May 2018
Time : 18:00-19:30
Venue: Gateway Hall C, University of Malta, Tal-Qroqq
RSVP : disabilitystudies.fsw@um.edu.mt by Monday 7 May
“Sesha would never live a normal life. . . . The worst fear was that her handicap involved her intellectual faculties. . . . Yet . . . it never even occurred to me to . . . think of her in any other terms than my own beloved child. She was my daughter. I was her mother. That was fundamental. . . . We didn’t yet realize how much she would teach us, but we already knew that we had learned something. That which we believed we valued, what we—I—thought was at the center of humanity, the capacity for thought, for reason, was not it, not it at all.â€
(Eva Feder Kittay, Love’s Labor, 150)
