Backhouse Lecture
The Backhouse lectures are delivered annually at Yearly Meeting, the national gathering of Quakers in Australia. These are public lectures on a contemporary issue. Friends from Australia and overseas have presented these lectures.
Jackie Leach Scully will talk about what disability, difference and normality mean for Friends in the 21st century.
Jackie is an active Quaker and a previous Swarthmore Lecturer (2002) to Britain Yearly Meeting. With an initial training in biological sciences, she is now resident in Australia and Professor of Bioethics at the University of NSW. She conducts research into how people with disability engage with medical and healthcare innovations. She has been a disability activist for over thirty years.
The Backhouse lecture is open to the public, so we encourage you to publicise this event and invite interested family and friends.
