Day 2: Disabled Legacies: Beyond Access and Inclusion

Sat Feb 28 2026 at 10:00 am to 03:45 pm UTC+00:00

The Building Centre | London

Paul Mellon Centre
Publisher/HostPaul Mellon Centre
Day 2: Disabled Legacies: Beyond Access and Inclusion
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The Paul Mellon Centre’s What is Research Now? series is back for 2026!
About this Event

Attend in person or join us online via Zoom — tickets available for both options.
Free event.

The Spring edition of the series is titled “Disabled Legacies: Beyond Access and Inclusion”. It is led by the question: “Can research in the arts enable us to live and better inhabit the world together?”

The programme – through a series of talks, performances and workshops – will explore not only histories of disability but ways of thriving and being, arguing that disability justice can be not just a subject of study but a method and mode of being. This edition is co-convened by Kenny Fries, Khairani Barokka and Sria Chatterjee.


PROGRAMME

9.3010am: Registration

1010.10am: Welcome and Introduction by Sria Chatterjee, Khairani Barokka and Kenny Fries

10.1011.10am: Abi Palmer Invents the Weather/Intrusion: A Manifesto
Chair: Khairani Barokka

11.1011.40am: Comfort Break and Refreshments

11.4012.30pm: Disability as Method: A Conversation with Rebecca Sanchez and Jill H. Casid
Chair: Khairani Barokka

12.301.45pm: Lunch Break
1.452.35pm: A History of Deafness in Modern Britain, a Talk by Dr. Jaipreet Virdi
Chair: Sria Chatterjee (the PMC)

2.352.50pm: Comfort Break

2.503.45pm: Don’t Worry, I’m Just On Quip Time: Unambitiousness and Access First Working by Amelia Lander-Cavallo (Quiplash)
Chair: Kenny Fries

3:454.45pm: Closing Drinks Reception

4–5.30pm: Workshop – *Separate Sign up* (limited numbers), Funny Bones and Giggly Groans: A Crip Humour Workshop by Resting Museum, Priyanka D’Souza and Shreyasi Pathak at the PMC. Sign up here.

For speaker biographies and abstracts please visit the Paul Mellon Centre website.


Event location

The Building Centre (26 Store Street, London, WC1B 3JA)
https://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/about/plan-your-visit

You can also join us online via Zoom. Please sign up for 'Zoom Ticket' to recieve link.


Accessibility at a Glance at The Building Centre

✔ Live captioning

✔ British Sign Language

✔ Livestreamed

✔ Hearing loop available (please contact [email protected])

✔ Talks will be recorded and published online after event

✔Accessible toilets on the ground and lower ground floors

If you wish to inform us of any additional access requirements, please email [email protected].

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London, United Kingdom

Tickets

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