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SUMMARY:The Stereotype of "The Autistic Savant"
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DESCRIPTION:The Stereotype of "The Autistic Savant" \nA short talk by Prof
 essor Joseph N. Straus followed by discussion\n\nThursday 28 May 2026\n4.3
 0pm – 5.30pm\nOnline (Teams) and In Person (Learning Centre\, Schwarzman
  Centre for the Humanities\, Oxford\, OX2 6GG)\nRegistration is required f
 or online participation:\nhttps://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/1846d81
 6-98ad-406c-b107-e1f640be89bd@cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91\n\nAbst
 ract:\n“Autistic savants” are understood as people whose high level of
  skill in one area stands in contrast to their perceived deficiencies in o
 ther areas. Their stories have mostly been told either by psychiatrists an
 d psychologists within a pathologizing medicalized model of disability or 
 as inspirational tales of overcoming in popular and social media. Both of 
 these narrative frames have enfreaked them as alien Others\, whose gifts a
 nd disabilities place them outside the normal run of human intelligence an
 d creativity. With a focus mostly on music\, I will give a more realistic 
 account of their intellectual\, musical\, and creative lives. They are not
  freaks\, or aliens\, or miracles—they are autistic people who are good 
 at things. \n\nBiography:\nJoseph Straus is Distinguished Professor of Mus
 ic Theory at the CUNY Graduate Center.  With a specialization in music sin
 ce 1900\, he has written numerous technical music-theoretical articles and
  scholarly monographs on a variety of topics in modernist music. He has al
 so written a series of articles and books that engage disability as a cult
 ural practice\, including Extraordinary Measures: Music and Disability (Ox
 ford University Press\, 2011) and Broken Beauty: Musical Modernism and the
  Representation of Disability (Oxford University Press\, 2018).\n\nThis ev
 ent is co-organised by the TORCH Neurodiversity Network and the Humans in 
 Humanities Network. It features a short talk by Professor Joseph N. Straus
 \, followed by discussion. Participants are welcome to join either in pers
 on or online. Registration is required for online participation.\n\nPlease
  note that recording of any kind is not permitted at this event.\n\nTo joi
 n the events mailing list\, contact: \nneurodiversity@torch.ox.ac.uk or\nh
 uman-ities@torch.ox.ac.uk
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SPEAKER:Professor Joseph N. Straus
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