A conference at the UB reflects on the historical discrimination of disabled people

The conference will include the participation of leading figures in activism, education and research in the field of inclusion. In the opening lecture, Professor Monika Baar, from the Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute (Italy), will focus on the protests of disabled people, the development of a distinct identity and their creative forms of expression. 

Stefanie Endlich, honorary professor of Art in Public Spaces at the Berlin University of the Arts, will speak about the memorialisation processes carried out to make visible the victims of the Nazi murder programme against people with disabilities. Hisayo Katsui, Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Helsinki’s Faculty of Social Sciences, will focus on the forced sterilisation and abortion of deaf people throughout the 19th and 20th centuries in Finland. 

In the afternoon, the documentary L’altra normalitat (1980) will be screened, and there will be a conversation with the screenwriter Ferran Miquel and the educator and social activist Efren Carbonell.