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Disability and the Future: Conserving and Promoting Human Diversity

Oct 25, 2019 - Oct 25, 2019 | 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Heinz History Center
1212 Smallman St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15222

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Garland-Thomson, whose publications include “Staring: How We Look” and “Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature,” will speak on the importance of the survival of human difference in an era defined by genome-editing techniques and conversations around “curing” and “preventing” disabilities.

Admission is free and open to the public.