Disability at Home Symposium
Join us for a conference to explore the relationship between domestic space and disability, D/deafness, and neurodiversity, considering how the home shapes (and is shaped by) experiences of difference, disablement, and impairment.
A Tenement Flat in 1913 at Museum of the Home
This symposium will explore the relationship between domestic space and disability, D/deafness, and neurodiversity, considering how the home shapes (and is shaped by) experiences of difference, disablement, and impairment. The symposium is organised by the Centre for Studies of Home, a collaborative research partnership between Queen Mary University of London and the Museum of the Home.
The symposium aims to shed light on disability and the home in historical, contemporary, and theoretical contexts, affording insights and exchange between a broad range of disciplinary approaches.
This event is organised by the Centre for Studies of Home, a collaborative research partnership between Queen Mary University of London and the Museum of the Home.
Programme
Arrival | 9.30am-10am
Refreshments will be provided.
Welcome | 10am-10.30am
Welcome and introductions
Session 1 | 10.30am-11.50am
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Nicole Matthews and Jess Kirkness, Narrating Less than Beloved Objects: Domestic Spaces, Everyday Mobile Media and Amplification Technologies
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Lauren Alderton, Housing Precarity and Health Inequalities Amongst Gypsy and Traveller Communities
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Katherine Brickell and Rosalie Warnock, Sensory Lives: Neurodiverse Children and Families in Temporary Accommodation
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Q&A
Break | 11.50am–12.10pm
Break
Session 2 | 12.10pm-1.10pm
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Iris Sirendi “What it Means to Us": Exhibiting Assistive Technology Inclusively Through a Social History Lens
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House to House Art Project
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Q&A
Lunch | 1.15pm-2pm
Lunch will be provided.
There will be an optional 30-minute guided tour of the museum and a drop-in House to House workshop during this time.
Session 3 | 2pm–3pm
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Muneera Alkhelaifi, Imagining a Way Out: Disability and Domestic Space in Raja Alem’s ‘The Dove’s Necklace’
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Rosamund Lily West, The Figure of Elisabeth Frink’s ‘Blind Beggar and His Dog’
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Q&A
Session 4 | 3pm–4.20pm
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Alice Conibere, ‘Invalid Furniture’: Embodying ‘Disability’ in Domestic Spaces of the Long Nineteenth Century?
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Jessie Buckle, Epilepsy, Stigma and Institutionalisation
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Jane Hamlett, ‘I Must and Will Come Home’: Writing Home from Bethlem Hospital in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
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Q&A
Closing | 4.20pm-4.30pm
Closing remarks and thanks.
Drinks reception | 4.30pm-6pm
The days conference will be followed by a drinks reception.
We are committed to making this event accessible to as wide a range of participants as possible. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to ensure your access needs are met. Find out access at Museum of the Home.
Date
Thursday 15 May 2025
Time
9.30am-6pm
Cost
£15-20
Location
Museum of the Home - 136 Kingsland Road, London E2 8EA