Rencontre autour du livre "Clashing Vulnerabilities: Disability and Conflict"

Seminar about the book Clashing Vulnerabilities: Disability and Conflict by Simo Vehmas of Stockholm University, 2024–2025 fellow at the Paris IAS, with Don Kulick of Uppsala University and the University of Hong Kong, writer-in-residence for the month of May 2026 at the Paris IAS.

How might we think about vulnerability by looking at cases where different kinds of vulnerabilities clash?

Welcome to a discussion about the role conflicts and clashes play in comprehending “vulnerability”. How do clashes influence what can count as a vulnerability? And what kinds of vulnerabilities matter more than others? Why?

Program

• ⁠Welcome and introduction (Don Kulick & Simo Vehmas);
• ⁠Rights vs. wrong: debates about sex and disability (Don Kulick, Uppsala University & Hong Kong University);
• French teachers vs. disabled students (Cristina Popescu, CEMS-EHESS & Bielefeld University);
• Inherent vs. contingent vulnerabilities (Simo Vehmas, Stockholm University);
• Discussion (Marie Assaf, Sciences Po Paris).

Practical details

Free event open to the public at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales-EHESS (54 Boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris, Room AS1_23).