Professor Leon Hilton (Brown University), Researcher Dr. Marlon Miguel (Centre for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon) and doctoral students Julie Dind and Graham Bishop (Brown University) are the speaker of the discussion “Fernand Deligny: le réseau à venir,” about the French educator, essayist, and filmmaker Fernand Deligny. Deligny’s work with psychotic and autistic children outside the traditional institutional spaces of the school and the asylum has much to teach us about contemporary challenges to education and the “new normal.” Topics under discussion will include the limits of human speech, disability and neurodiversity, the role of networked technologies in Deligny’s work, and the relationship between humans and the nonhuman world.

Part of this year’s virtual French and Francophone Studies Colloquium, the panel will take place from 11 AM to 12:15 PM EST (4 PM to 5:15 PM Lisbon time) on March 11, 2021.