The G.E.F.S.S.
(Groupe d’Etudes et de Formations Sanitaires et Sociales. -
Group for Health and Social Studies and Training)
brings together a number of colleagues and association leaders whose
goal is to contribute, in a spirit of exchange and competition,
at an international and pluridisciplinary level, to draw attention
to the multiple aspects of the world of handicap, to analyse them
in terms of values and to relate them in a pragmatic way within
the professional, social, economical and political community.
Noirlac
1996 : "Ethics, Person and Handicap"
The C.E.R.P.H. as a regular partner
of G.E.F.S.S. has participated to the organisation of a meeting
on "Ethics, person and handicap". This meeting took place on October
9 and 10, 1995, in the prestigious environment of the Cistercian
abbey of Noirlac, thirty miles from Bourges.
There were about thirty presentations
dispatched into three sections :
Section 1 : "ETHICS and PERSON"-
Why Ethics today ? - The person as a subject of rights and
duty’s. - The person with a handicap.
Section 2 : "THE PICTURES OF
THE HANDICAP".- The concept of pictures - The handicap vision
of others. - The self vision of the handicapped of person.
- The vision of the handicapped person about others.
Section 3 : "HANDICAP ON SOCIETY".
- Bioethics : promises and limits. - Social accompanying.
- Economical aspects.
Finally, a round table was devoted
to the concept of handicapped people including its historical and
theological aspects, as well as the problem of the mental handicap
with respect to AIDS.
The proceedings of the conference
(100 FF) are available at G.E.F.S.S., 8, rue Jean-Jaurès,
86000 Poitiers (France).
Noirlac
1998 : "Creativity and Handicap"
The 1998 Noirlac Conference dedicated
to "Creativity and Handicap" took place on October 14 - 16,
1998. In a time of normalisation, often frenzied, the choices of
society tend to assert themselves to the individual rendered passive
and purely consumer of assistance. Hence it was felt necessary to
put forward what builds the richness of handicap as a source of
creativity, all together, genius, dialogue, imagination, management
of projects and generator of sense.
Will our world still have talent
to invent Life and to provide it with means assessable to all ?
With which creative faculties are we endowed, of which concrete
achievements (industrial, associations) are we able through our
differences ? What role should the society play in such a context
? What sort of edifying message is the handicap able in turn to
deliver ? Which account can we relay ?
The proceedings of the conference
will be available at G.E.F.S.S., 8, rue Jean-Jaurès, 86000
Poitiers (France).
