Seminar Two: Beyond the Right to Life: Disability Personhood and Participation

This podcast is an audio recording of the 2nd seminar in the seminar series that was linked to the Deadly Medicine Travelling Exhibition (22 February - 26 March 2018) of the Cape Town Holocaust Centre. Seminar two was titled "Beyond the Right to Life: Disability Personhood and Participation" and was held at Stellenbosch University on the 7th May 2018.

The speakers for this seminar, Chaired by Prof Leslie Swartz from the Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, were as follows:

• 00:00 - 3:41: Opening by the Director of the South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation and the Cape Town Holocaust Centre, Mr Richard Freedman
• 3:50 - 5:44: Christina Teichman, Project Manager at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
• 5:52 - 11:09: Chairperson Prof Leslie Swartz from the Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University
• 11:17 - 34:26: Judith McKenzie - Associate Professor and Head of the Disability Studies Division at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in the Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
• 35:59 - 59:30: Chaeli Mycroft - Internationally recognised ability activist. She is registered for a PhD in Human Rights Law at UCT
• 1:00:59 - 1:16:54: Bongani Mapumulo - Head of the Disabled Students’ Society at Stellenbosch University
• 1:18:16 - 1:41:15: Dr Brian Watermeyer - Disability scholar and disabled (severely, visually impaired) activist. He teaches on postgraduate programmes in disability and clinical psychology, as well as guest lecturing in medicine and rehabilitation science programmes in disability and clinical psychology, as well as guest lecturing in medicine and rehabilitation science

View the video footage of the seminar.