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Ken Betsalel, Ph.D. Political scientist, award-winning documentary photographer
Heidi Kelley, Ph.D. Cultural anthropologist, stroke survivor Asheville, NC W: (828) 232-5041 or (828) 251-6980 hkelley@unca.edu betsalel@unca.edu Send all e-mail to both addresses
About Ken Betsalel and Heidi Kelley: Dr. Ken Betsalel is a political scientist and award winning documentary photographer. His areas of specialty include the politics of law and culture. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and teaches at UNC-Asheville. Dr. Betsalel and his wife, Dr. Heidi Kelley, are Advisory Board members of The Western Alliance Center for Independent Living, a nonprofit organization that works with the disabled community. Dr. Heidi Kelley is a cultural anthropologist and stroke survivor whose areas of specialty include psychological and medical anthropology and the anthropology of gender and Europe. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Washington and has done her field work in Spain. She teaches at UNC-Asheville. Kelley and her husband, Ken Betsalel are Advisory Board members of the Western Alliance Center for Independent Living, a nonprofit organization that works with the disabled community.
Beyond the Overcoming Narrative: The Culture and Politics of Disability
What does it mean to be disabled? What does it mean to be abled? This talk explores the meaning of disability in contemporary society and ways of thinking about disability that go beyond the “super-crip” or overcoming narrative. Dr. Ken Betsalel and Dr. Heidi Kelley will raise issues concerning the social construction of disability, including the important disability civil rights movement, and consider how the definition of disability varies cross-culturally. They will also consider how disability affects the lives of men and women differently, as well as the role of the Americans with Disabilities Act in changing the lives of people with disabilities. Program requirements: slide projector, VCR, monitor
Travels in Stroke Country Making use of photographs and stories, this program raises questions concerning the best way to represent the disabled. It also calls for new ways to think about disability by drawing on Dr. Ken Betsalel and Dr. Heidi Kelley’s experience of stroke and fieldwork in “stroke country.” Keeping faithful to the stories disabled people tell, Betsalel and Kelley ask their audience to consider how disability may be the result of social roadblocks. Program requirements: slide projector, VCR, monitor
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