The Department of Social Policy at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland, in collaboration with the European Disability Forum and the Polish Disability Forum, would like to extend an invitation to the international academic seminar, “The Right to Independent Living: Selected Challenges for the Disability Policy”.
When?
October 29, 2024, 10:00 am – 03:00 pm (10:00 – 15:00)
Where?
SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
Aleja Niepodległości 162, Warsaw, main building (Building G), room 152
Key speakers:
Ina Dimitrova received her PhD in social and political philosophy from Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of social philosophy and bioethics at the Department of Philosophy and History, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Her research interests include disability studies, politics of reproduction and population, as well as social studies of science, technology, and medicine. Her current research is focused on disability activism, disability history and the history of the psy-sciences in the socialist context.
Maureen Piggot, OBE, is a member of the European Disability Forum’s Executive Committee. She is a former President of Inclusion Europe, the association of people with intellectual disability. Maureen has worked in education, social services and the disability sector. As Director of Mencap in Northern Ireland from 1990 to 2014, her responsibilities included leading the policy advocacy of an extensive membership network and the delivery of support services, including early intervention, employment, supported housing, information and advocacy. Under her leadership, governance and representation were reformed to support the participation of people with intellectual disability at all levels. In 2008, her advocacy for the rights and inclusion of people with intellectual disability was recognised with an award of the Order of the British Empire.
Programme
9.30-10.00 Registration, welcome coffee
10.00-10.10 Opening of the seminar, welcoming the participants, introduction
10.10-12.00 Theoretical Challenges of Analysing Disability Policy in the Context of Independent Living
• Ina Dimitrova, PhD (University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria), Disablement in postsocialist CEE and the case of Bulgaria
• Magdalena Kocejko, PhD (SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland),
Zbigniew Głąb, PhD (University of Łódź, Poland), Disability policy in Poland in a perspective of cruel optimism
• Inna Studennikova (Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine), The Complexity of Disability Policy in Contemporary Ukraine (TBC)
Moderator: Andrzej Klimczuk, PhD (SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland)
12.00-12.30 Coffee break
12.30-14.20 Practical Conditions for Implementing Disability Policy in the Context of Independent Living
• Maureen Piggot (European Disability Forum, Belgium), Independent living – breaking the impasse in Europe
• Krzysztof Kurowski, PhD (Polish Disability Forum), What measures should be implemented at the national level to facilitate independent living? Examples from Poland
• Anna Drabarz, PhD (Polish Disability Forum), Independent living at the local level: Perspective from the ground
Moderator: Magdalena Kocejko, PhD (SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland)
14.20-14.30 Closing remarks
14.30-15.00 Lunch
Please register by October 25, 2024, at magdalena.kocejko@sgh.waw.pl
The number of places is limited. The order in which applications are received will determine the outcome.
The event is organised in a wheelchair-accessible space.