Disability Studies Program hosts Erik Parens for February 25 talk

Tuesday, February 25
5:00 – 6:15 pm
McShain Room, McCarthy Hall

The Disability Studies Program, which is led by the KIE’s Joel Michael Reynolds, hosts  Erik Parens, Hastings Center senior research scholar and Director of the Center’s Initiative in Bioethics and the Humanities for a talk entitled “Binocular Vision: A Metaphor to Help Comprehend Persons” at McShain Large Lounge, in McCarthy Hall on Georgetown’s Main Campus.

Parens has studied the efforts of philosophers, novelists, and poets to understand what it is like to be a person. Since his arrival at Hastings in 1992, he has also studied the efforts of geneticists and neuroscientists to explain why persons behave as we do.

This event is wheelchair accessible and ASL-Interpreted. For other access needs, email disabilitystudies@georgetown.edu.

Directions (To find McShain Lounge, enter through the entrance of McCarthy Hall facing Leo’s Dining Hall.)