1. Disability Rights and Contemporary Challenges A Memorial Conference for Professor Eithne McLaughlin School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Queen’s University Belfast: Wednesday 9th Sept. 2009 Contact: m.shildrick@qub.ac.uk for detailsm.shildrick@qub.ac.uk

2. Morning session: Registration, Coffee and Tea 9.30 –10.00am Formal Welcome: Margrit Shildrick and Myrtle Hill 9.45 - 10.00 Professor Monica McWilliams (NI Human Rights Chief Commissioner) Disability Rights - the need for champions and for change. 10.00 – 10.30 plus 10 minutes for questions Break The Eithne McLaughlin Memorial Lecture Professor Marcia Rioux (York U, Toronto) 11.00 – 11.40 plus 20 minutes for questions Panel 1: The Impact of the Disability Rights Discourse 12 – 1pm Chair: Dr Bronagh Byrne Speakers: Dr Karl Nunkoosing (Portsmouth University) Dr Bernie Kelly (QUB) Dr Griet Roets (Ghent University) Questions. ------------------------------------------------------------- Lunch: a light lunch is provided free of charge 1.00 – 2.00pm

3. Afternoon session Prof. Carol Thomas (Lancaster U.) The Social Model of Disability and Rights Discourse: One and the Same? 2.00 – 2.30 plus 20 minutes for questions Prof. David Mitchell (Temple University, Philadelphia) 3.00 –3.30pm plus 20mins questions Break Panel discussion: Beyond Rights? 4.10 – 5.15pm Chair : David Mitchell (Temple University, Philadelphia) Nancy Hanson (Disability Studies, U. Manitoba) Janet Price (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) Ailbhe Smyth (Womens Studies, UCD) Sally Wheeler (QUB Law Department) Close 5.15 - 5.30

4. Early evening event by invitation 6.30pm Book Launch and Wine Reception: at No Alibis (Botanic Avenue) Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Subjectivity and Sexuality (Margrit Shildrick). Supported by Palgrave Macmillan.