Positions, policies and portrayals of deafblindness: film screening of Whirlpool
Join us for a screening of the award-winning short film Whirlpool, on the life of Helen Keller. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion on deafblindness today.
Speakers include
- Kate Baxter and Elizabeth Dixon (creators of Whirlpool): making Whirlpool and portrayals of deafblindness in the media
- Morgon Banks (Research Fellow, LSHTM): results from the “2018 Global Report on Deafblindness”, including data from 22 countries on the situation of people with deafblindness
- Alison Marshall (Director, Sense International): service provisions for people with deafblindness in resource-constrained settings
About the seminar:
Helen Keller, who became deafblind as an infant, is one of the most well-known civil rights and disability activists. Whirlpool is a short film about her life, which has won over 10 awards including the RIFA 2017 Inspiration Award at BAFTA and has qualified for the 2019 Academy Award live-action short category. After screening the film, panellists will discuss the situation of deafblindness today, combing perspectives from academia, media and non-profit sectors. Panellists include: the directors, producers, writers and actress of Whirlpool, Kate Baxter and Elizabeth Dixon; Alison Marshall, the Director of Sense International (www.senseinternational.org.uk), the leading global charity supporting people with deafblindness; and Morgon Banks, a researcher with the International Centre for Evidence in Disability and a contributor to the “2018 Global Report on Deafblindness”.
Registration is not required. If coming from outside the school, please sign in at reception when you arrive, and a member from ICED will be waiting in the foyer to accompany you to the theatre.
If you have any access needs that we can assist with, please contact us on disabilitycentre@lshtm.ac.uk
For more information about the International Centre for Evidence in Disability (ICED), including the full schedule of seminars in the series, please see our website at: http://disabilitycentre.lshtm.ac.uk/
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