Living life to the fullest in Melbourne

Today – 20th February 2019 – saw Dan Goodley represent the Living Life to the Fullest team at the University of Melbourne.

A building in Melbourne

Dan presented a public lecture drawing on the research project ‘Living life to the fullest’ which involves a co-researcher group of young women living with life-limiting and life-threatening impairments. This project is being led by Kirsty LiddiardKatherine Runswick-Cole and Dan. The talk included a short film in which the co-researchers talked about the importance and process of co-research. The lecture then teased out the potential of co-authoring, the circulation of power in co-research, and the importance of responsive social theory to incubate co-research. Dan argued that co-research might be reframed as a quintessential posthuman practice. Dan was then joined by a panel of Australian theorists and researchers who offered their response to the paper before opening up the session to questions and answers. Presenters included:

Dr Anna Arnstein-Kerslake
Professor Dan Goodley
Georgia Katsikis
Dr Paul Ramcharan
Dr Karen Soldatic
Dr Claire Spivakovsky

Robot reading books

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