Hall Center in Wichita | Ashley Shew: Walkie Talkies & Other Technoableist Dreams

Each year, the Hall Center looks forward to sharing exciting scholarship with our neighbors in Wichita. Held at the Wichita Art Museum, this event brings together scholars and community members from Lawrence and Wichita for a reception and lecture on topics in the medical humanities. -- Walkie Talkies & Other Technoableist Dreams Ashley Shew MON, NOV 9 Reception: 6:00 PM | Lecture: 7:00 - 8:30 PM Wichita Art Museum, 1400 Museum Blvd. To attend the pre-lecture reception, please visit bit.ly/wichita-shew. Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be served at the reception. Walking and talking are treated as instrumental goods in healthcare, valued for what they do rather than what they are. Ashley Shew argues these aren’t the only ways to move through the world or connect with others: crutches, wheelchairs, AAC devices, and signed languages serve the same ends. Drawing on disability narratives, she shows how healthcare’s fixation on walking and talking often comes at the expense of what disa