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The URPP “Human Reproduction Reloaded” is delighted to announce a guest lecture by Brian McGowan. Born in 1979, he studied history and political sciences at the University of Zurich. After working as head of the Equality Office for People with Disabilities of the city of Bern and as Diversity Officer at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW, he currently is a lecturer of Disability Studies at Zürich and serves as Co-President and Project Manager of Sensability.ch. Brian McGowan’s expertise is in the fields of Disability Studies, inclusion theories and critical diversity theories, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its implementation, and diversity in the context of higher education and university structures.
In collaboration with the Institute of Art History and funded by the Graduate School UZH, the talk will contribute to the workshop "The Body in Plural: The Artifactuality of Human Reproduction" in October 2024.
The lecture will take place on Tuesday, 29 October 2024, 4.15 to 5. 45 pm in the UZH Main Building (KOL-G-204).
We kindly ask everyone who does not feel 100% healthy to wear a mask for this event. Thank you.
In this event, we will look at the concepts of normality and abnormality.
We will ask ourselves where these constructions come from and what it means to be normal or abnormal - and to what extent the history of the emergence of these ideas is centrally linked to their meaning. In this context, we will examine the close symbiosis between the goals of eugenics and the rise of the discipline of statistics.
