The Social Ju stice Institute Noted Scholars Series presents
by Karen Lord
October 18\, 12-1pm
Buchanan Tower 225
This event will be recorded but not livestreamed.
Please wear a mask if you are attending this event.
A sandwich lunch will be served at 1pm.
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In her science fiction\, Barbadian author Kar en Lord uses real and fictional differences in human cognitive abilities to imagine societies shaped by other norms and expectations of what constitut es neurotypical behaviour. Concepts of personhood\, adulthood\, class\, and disability vary as a result\, thus demonstrating how the standards for soc ial inclusion and exclusion are rarely absolute.
In this ta lk\, Lord will focus on three characters as examples: Ntenman\, who lacks e mpathic ability but still attempts to achieve status in a society of empath s\; Serendipity\, who has rejected the highly developed telepathic communit y of her birth and is seeking other forms of community\; and Rafi\, whose a bilities are beyond the restrictions and standards of any existing human so ciety\, and who is perceived as a hero or a threat as a result.
This talk is part of UBC Social Justice Institute's Noted Scholars Spe akers which brings together our faculty\, students\, and community members into a generative space for exchange and discussion with the work of noted scholars and artists. This year's Series will explore and question the ways that entire populations can fall within hierarchies of both physical and c ognitive ability\; the ways that negative feelings about our bodies can bot h foreclose and open new avenues of thought\; and the ways that crip method s can help consider the parallels and intersections of studies in settler c olonialism\, racial capitalism\, empire\, queer theory\, refugee narratives \, and permanent war.
Barbadian novelist Dr Karen Lord is the author of < em>Redemption in Indigo\, which won the 2008 Frank Collymore Literary Award\, the 2010 Carl Brandon Parallax Award\, the 2011 William L. Crawford Award\, the 2011 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature and the 201 2 Kitschies Golden Tentacle (Best Debut). Her other works include the scien ce fiction novels The Best of All Possible Worlds and The Galaxy Game\, and the crime-fantasy novel Unraveling. Sh e edited the anthology New Worlds\, Old Ways: Speculative Tales fr om the Caribbean. Her latest book\, The Blue\, Beautiful World\, w ill be published in August 2023.
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