- October 21, 2023
- 7:30pm EDT
- Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas Street, Toronto
Letters with Smokie
Blindness and More-than-Human Relations
Letters with Smokie captures an epistolic exchange between Dan Goodley and Rod Michalko, or rather, Rod Michalko's late guide dog, Smokie. A lively exploration of human-animal relationships and disability as disruption, disturbance, and art, the book offers a refreshing re-evaluation of cultural misunderstandings of disability.
Please join Rod Michalko and Dan Goodley for the launch of their book Letters with Smokie. The two disability scholars will be discussing human-animal relationships, disability as disruption, and whether blindness might be reconceptualized and “befriended.”
Presenters
Rod Michalko is a retired professor from the University of Toronto where he taught disability studies. His current writing, both fiction and non-fiction, stems from his experience of blindness.
Dan Goodley is professor of Disability Studies and Education at the University of Sheffield. Previous books include Disability and Other Human Questions (Emerald, 2020) and Disability Studies (second edition, Sage, 2016).
