Message from the Centre de Recherche Antoine Favre : The "Identity, Dignity and Disability" symposium has been cancelled. An event should be organized to coincide with the publication of the collective work (initially the proceedings of the symposium), which has been maintained (date unknown at present).
The Centre de Recherche en Droit Antoine Favre (Antoine Favre Law Research Center ) of theUniversité Savoie Mont Blanc Faculty of Law, in partnership with theUniversité Clermont Auvergne, is organizing a symposium on the theme of "Identity, dignity and disability".
It will be held fromThursday March 26 to Friday March 27, 2020, in the A. Decottignies amphitheater of theUniversité Savoie Mont Blanc presidency, 27 rue Marcoz, Chambéry.
An exhibition by Manon Vichy and Accueil Savoie Handicap, as well as shared sports activities, will also be organized alongside the symposium.
About the symposium
The aim of the symposium is to measure the progress made or still to be made in affirming or fully realizing the identity and dignity of people with disabilities. The aim is to analyze the tools, mechanisms, policies and actions that enable everyone to take their place in society with the same expectations as an able-bodied person, and to look at how society as a whole receives and perceives this inclusive evolution. Aside from the question of how to define disability, there is also the question of how to represent it: as we have seen once again with the Lambert affair, and in particular with the recommendation of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
How can we treat people who are a priori in different situations? How do we assess the dignity of the disabled person? How do they see themselves, and what are the consequences? To answer these questions, we will draw on a wide range of knowledge: law, sociology, psychology, the views of researchers, practitioners, association leaders...
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- Admission free and open to all [registration required]
- Contact: gestionnaire-cerdaf@univ-smb.fr
