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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Understanding LatDisCrit Contours
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Alexis Padilla will focus on defining and showing the significance of LatDisCrit as a transdisciplinary sub-field. Padilla will use three illustrative counterstories to capture how disability gets racialized in Latinx marginalization dynamics\, while race/ethnicity serves as a proxy for oppressive disablement through exclusionary processes within US settings. \nDr. Alexis Padilla is the Director of Research at the Disability Policy Consortium. Padilla is the author of Disability\, Intersectional Agency\, and Latinx Identity. Theorizing LatDisCrit Counterstories\, a book that links dis/ability and agency by exploring LatDisCrit’s theory and activist emancipatory practice. It refers to the author’s experiential and analytical views as a blind brown Latinx engaged scholar and activist from the global South living and struggling in the highly racialized global North context of the United States. Padilla is a Ph.D. graduate from the Language\, Literacy\, and Sociocultural Studies Department at the University of New Mexico\, Albuquerque. Padilla is also a lawyer\, sociologist\, and conflict transformation engaged scholar. His work explores emancipatory learning and radical agency in the context of decolonial Latinx theorizing and critical disability studies. His published contributions emphasize the activist/disability advocacy vantage point combined with actionable dimensions of inclusive equity research and practice. Padilla’s postsecondary teaching experience encompasses almost three decades. He has more than 20 years of engagement in advocacy and conflict resolution work with Spanish-speaking families and English Language Learning students with disabilities in various U.S. settings. Since Spring 2020\, he has been affiliated with Phillips Theological Seminary to expand his research agenda and his activism scope into intersectional disability theology. \nRegister here for the Zoom attendance link \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, Comparative Literature Program\, and Graduate Center for Literary Research \nASL interpretation will be provided.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/understanding-latdiscrit-contours/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230213T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230213T161500
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Seminar: Care and Disability
DESCRIPTION:In her 1982 work\, In a Different Voice\, Carol Gilligan outlined a new manner for women to think about moral values and practices\, and put forward the concept of care\, which has recently been at the core of a new ethics. The ethics of care centers our social relations on vulnerability\, dependency\, and interdependence. In this session of the Disability Studies Initiative\, we will discuss works that address the limit of individual autonomy and the place of disability in the philosophy of care: Eva Feder Kittay’s “The Ethics of Care\, Dependence\, and Disability” (2011) and Laura Davy’s “Philosophical Inclusive Design: Intellectual Disability and the Limits of Individual Autonomy in Moral and Political Theory” (2015). Please write to: disabilitystudies@english.ucsb.edu to get the readings. Catherine Nesci will moderate the discussion. A Professor of Comparative Literature and French Studies at UC Santa Barbara with courtesy appointment in the Departments of Germanic & Slavic Studies and Feminist Studies\, Nesci works at the interface of gender and literary urban studies in modern and contemporary French and Western literatures. Her main scholarly interests include urban genres (flânerie\, detection\, Noir\, the underworld\, the popular novel\, literary cartographies); gendered cityscapes\, gendered embodiments; care\, remediation\, and literature; memory studies; Shoah & genocide studies; disability studies. \nRegister for the Zoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, Comparative Literature Program\, Graduate Center for Literary Research\, Disabled Students Program\, and Commission on Disability Equity
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/care-and-disability/
LOCATION:Early Modern Center\, 2510 South Hall (Hybrid)\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221107T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221107T163000
DTSTAMP:20260416T202958
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Disability in Latin American and Latinx Contexts
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a discussion on disability in Latin American and Latinx contexts. While disability studies is a diverse and evolving field\, much of the focus has been on exploring disabled bodyminds in the context of the Global North\, often leaving out questions of neoliberalism\, colonialism\, and racialization. This conversation will begin to explore how scholars interested in disability might begin expanding this conversation by including both Latin American and US Latinx perspectives on the bodymind. The conversation will be centered around two readings: the introduction to Libre Accesso: Latin American Literature and Film through Disability Studies and a short story by Ramón García\, entitled “Amor Indio: Juan Diego of San Diego.” \nShanna Killeen will moderate this event. They earned their MA in English from Oregon State University in 2017. They specialize in disability studies and queer studies with a particular focus on neurodivergence\, crip Latinx art and literature\, and aromanticism. Their dissertation\, entitled “Affect Aliens: On Neurodivergent and Aromantic Epistemologies\,” explores affective norms and the ways in which certain kinds of bodyminds come to be pathologized as lacking in affect. Their work turns to the contemporary aesthetic and discursive practices of neurodivergent and aromantic people to ask what this can tell us about affect\, interrelationality\, and care. \nWorks Cited:\nAntebi\, Susan\, and Beth Ellen Jörgensen. “Introduction: A Latin American Context for Disability Studies.” Libre Acceso: Latin American Literature and Film through Disability Studies\, State University of New York Press\, 2016.\nGarcía\, Ramón. “Amor Indio: Juan Diego of San Diego.” Virgins\, Guerrillas & Locas: Gay Latinos Writing on Love\, 1st ed\, Cleis Press\, 1999. \nFor the readings\, please write to: disabilitystudies@english.ucsb.edu \nRegister for the Zoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, Comparative Literature Program\, and Graduate Center for Literary Research
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-disability-in-latin-american-and-latinx-contexts/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221027T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221027T110000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Intellectual Disability\, the English Law\, and the Fools of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
DESCRIPTION:This talk will examine how fools in early modern drama and literature were considered intellectually disabled\, if viewed in the light of early modern criteria for intellectual disability. The English law was the discipline that most of all strove to conceptualize such a disability: calling it idiocy\, it defined it as someone’s incapacity to manage property. Such thinking influenced the way literary characters were represented on the stage and page. Hence\, they showcased a tendency to be interrogated\, to be on the verge of bankruptcy\, and to be vulnerable victims of ruthless guardians. Insights from contemporary disability studies theory will help historicize literary fools as idiots. \nDr. Alice Equestri is a Lecturer in English literature at the University of Padua as well as a Research Associate at the University of Sussex\, where she held a position as Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow between 2017 and 2019. She has published two monographs: Literature and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern England: Folly\, Law\, and Medicine 1500-1640 (Routledge\, 2021) and The Fools of Shakespeare’s Romances (Carocci\, 2016)\, which was awarded the AIA PhD Dissertation Prize 2015. Her essays have appeared or are due to appear in venues including the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature\, Renaissance Studies\, Notes and Queries\, and Disability Studies Quarterly. \nThe event will also be available via Zoom here. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, the Early Modern Center of the English Department\, the Comparative Literature Program\, and the Graduate Center for Literary Research
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-intellectual-disability-the-english-law-and-the-fools-of-shakespeare-and-his-contemporaries/
LOCATION:2510 South Hall\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221010T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221010T170000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Event: Meet and Greet Open House
DESCRIPTION:The co-conveners of the Disability Studies Initiative invite you to come and join us for tea or coffee. We will discuss as a group potential activities for the year and come up with an agenda of exciting events and initiatives. Let’s meet face to face if you can. Participants may also register and join us online so we can exchange ideas and brainstorm about current research in Critical Disability Studies. Let’s continue our work on disability and literary studies; on discourses of intersectionality and disabled bodies; on art and design history research and accessibility; on universal design for learning\, and develop the study of gender\, care\, and disability. \nRegister for the Zoom attendance link here. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, Department of Comparative Literature\, and Graduate Center for Literary Research
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-event-meet-and-greet-open-house/
LOCATION:Early Modern Center\, 2510 South Hall\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220601T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220601T231500
DTSTAMP:20260416T202958
CREATED:20220510T170006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220510T191831Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Buddhismcrip - Queered Variabilities
DESCRIPTION:People performing diverse embodiments of sexualities\, gender\, and variable physical and neurological patterns\, among others\, often encounter specific difficulties and sometimes hostility when practicing Buddhism. In this talk\, Professor Bee Scherer will look at these experiences of abjection\, their grounding in social psychology\, and how they relate to positions found in Buddhist philosophy and narratives. How can we negotiate oppressive readings of\, for example\, key Buddhist notions such as karma\, No-Self\, and detachment? How can we address structural marginalization and discrimination of “dis/abilities” (variabilities) and sexual and gender diversity in Socially Engaged Buddhist activism and as communities of practice? \nFrom their experience in academia and as a Tibetan Buddhist teacher\, Professor Scherer will discuss strategies of inclusion and give examples of liberatory practices. \nProf. Bee Scherer (they\, them\, their) has been practicing for decades in the Sakya and Kagyu traditions of Tibetan Buddhism and has been serving as a dharma teacher for more than fifteen years. Formerly the chair of Religious Studies and Gender Studies at Canterbury CCU in the U.K.\, Bee now heads Buddhist Studies at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam and directs the national Dutch Buddhist chaplaincy training program. Trained in the classical Buddhist languages\, Bee has published widely in Buddhist Studies as well as in gender and sexuality theory (Queer and Trans* Studies) and in Critical Disabilities Studies. Both as an academic and as a queer/non-binary/trans* and dis/ability advocate\, Bee brings their unique perspective to Buddhist practice\, embodiment\, and social engagement. \nRegister for the Zoom attendance link here. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, Department of Comparative Literature\, and Graduate Center for Literary Research
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-buddhismcrip-queered-variabilities/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220301T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220301T170000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Critical Access Studies
DESCRIPTION:Thirty years after the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act\, much of the built environment remains inaccessible to disabled people. Accordingly\, the vast majority of research and writing on accessibility seeks to convince the unconvinced of the value of inclusion. This field\, which Professor Aimi Hamraie terms “Access Studies\,” would benefit from greater engagement with the concepts\, practices\, and political commitments of critical disability studies. In this talk\, Hamraie will discuss the emerging field of “Critical Access Studies\,” which engages with the methodologies\, epistemologies\, and political commitments of accessibility from the perspectives of Disability Justice and disability culture. Using historical and contemporary examples\, they will show how critical and intersectional perspectives on disability can enable a deeper engagement with the politics of knowing\, making\, and belonging in the twentieth-century United States. \nAimi Hamraie (they/them) is Associate Professor of Medicine\, Health\, & Society and American Studies at Vanderbilt University and Director of the Critical Design Lab. Hamraie is author of Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability (University of Minnesota Press\, 2017) and host of the Contra* podcast on disability\, design justice\, and the lifeworld. They identify as disabled\, SWANA\, and diasporic Iranian. Their interdisciplinary research spans critical disability studies\, science and technology studies\, critical design and urbanism\, critical race theory\, and the environmental humanities. They were just appointed to the US Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board. \nRegister for the Zoom attendance link here. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, Department of History of Art and Architecture\, The History of Science Colloquium\, The Comparative Literature Program\, The Graduate Center for Literary Research \nImage description: An olive-skinned Iranian person with short\, dark curly hair and rectangular glasses smiles at the camera. They wear a blue shirt and blue/green checkered blazer. Behind them is a blurred green background.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-critical-access-studies/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220208T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220208T180000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Disability\, Blackness\, and Race in US Literature
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of Black History Month\, the Disability Studies Initiative invites you to discuss two essays that shed light on the material intersections of disability and race: Josh Lukin’s short article\, “Disability and Blackness” (2006)\, which calls for the consideration of Black experiences in the history of disability and its artistic representations\, and Michelle Jarman’s “Race and Disability in US Literature” (2018)\, which takes its framework from Black feminist theories and calls for relational approaches to disability. \nRegister for the Zoom attendance link here and write to disabilitystudies@english.ucsb.edu to receive copies of both papers. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, the Comparative Literature Program\, and the Graduate Center for Literary Research
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-disability-blackness-and-race-in-us-literature/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220118T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220118T180000
DTSTAMP:20260416T202958
CREATED:20211222T171650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220112T165034Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Dysgenic Stories: Field Worker Reports\, Contradiction\, and Confinement at Sonoma State Home\, 1920-1921
DESCRIPTION:Our discussion will focus on Isidro González’s paper and another piece of scholarship. González’s research focuses on Sonoma State Home for the Feebleminded in Eldridge\, California\, and how eugenics field workers—those involved in observing and notating nonnormative (“dysgenic”) phenotypic\, familial\, and lifestyle attributes of institutionalized people—crafted individualized clinical narratives of “inmates” to not only legitimize their profession\, the state employer\, and the Eugenics Record Office (ERO)\, but also to surveil\, pathologize\, and medicalize “unfit” human beings. In so doing\, they worked to demarcate the line between idealized white\, able-bodied\, middle- and upper-class citizens and poor\, racialized\, disabled\, and dispensable individuals in the United States. The result was the loss of personal freedom\, the inability to engender children\, and the state and medical establishment’s attempt to halt the propagation of those with lower IQ scores\, poor folks\, non-Protestants\, and those who strayed in body and mind from an exalted whiteness. What this study contributes to the histories of institutionalization\, disability\, race\, gender\, and eugenics is that it highlights the on-the-ground data collection practices of a single field worker at Sonoma State Home to see how the logics of racism\, classism\, ableism\, and sexism functioned to explain the supposed dysgenic traits of institutionalized people and their social networks. Central questions framing this research are: which qualities\, attributes\, and markers did field workers seek in “inmates” and families in order to qualify them as inferior humans\, and how did field workers quantify these markers? Also\, what was the human standard\, in body and mind\, and could “inmates” be fixed or engineered to fit the standard (or fit a standard)? \nIsidro González is a doctoral student in the Department of History\, working at the intersection of race\, disability\, mental illness\, and science in U.S. history. \nPlease register for the Zoom attendance link here and contact disabilitystudies@english.ucsb.edu if you have any questions. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-dysgenic-stories-field-worker-reports-contradiction-and-confinement-at-sonoma-state-home-1920-1921/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211115T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211115T170000
DTSTAMP:20260416T202958
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LAST-MODIFIED:20211012T181451Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Workshop: Why Different Models of Disability?
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Lambert (Assistant Professor in Special Education and Mathematics Education\, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education\, UC Santa Barbara) will offer a workshop on the different models of disability\, including medical\, social\, political/ relational and complex embodiment. Lambert’s scholarly work investigates the intersections between Disability Studies in Education and mathematics education. She has conducted longitudinal studies of how Latinx students with learning disabilities construct identities as mathematics learners\, and how mathematical pedagogy shapes how teachers perceive students as disabled. \nZoom attendance link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84716751476?pwd=d3JPWlN0eVFoVlBYeHFtSU1OdGJ6QT09 \nCo-sponsored by the IHC Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, CODE\, the Associated Students Commission on Disability Equality\, and the UCSB Comparative Literature Program
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-workshop-why-different-models-of-disability/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211025T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211025T180000
DTSTAMP:20260416T202958
CREATED:20211001T191444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T194408Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Disability Studies Initiative for a discussion of Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-Crip Theory (available online after signing into the UCSB library). We will focus our discussion on two chapters: “Bodies of Nature: The Environmental Politics of Disability” by Alison Kafer and “Cripping Sustainability\, Realizing Food Justice” by Kim Q. Hall. \nThis event will be moderated by Olivia Henderson. A second year graduate student in the Department of English at UC Santa Barbara\, Olivia is interested in disability studies\, ecocriticism\, and early modern literature. \nZoom attendance link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/82378344471?pwd=Tlc1SEZ1cGdhbGdEbnJaQ1pKMVBQdz09 \nCo-sponsored by the IHC Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, the UCSB Comparative Literature Program\, and the UCSB English Department
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-disability-studies-and-the-environmental-humanities/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210510T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210510T180000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Workshop: A Disability Studies Perspective on Universal Design for Learning
DESCRIPTION:ATTEND DISCUSSION \nProfessor Rachel Lambert (Education\, UC Santa Barbara) will offer a workshop on Universal Design for Learning (UDL). She will shed light on its development\, including roots in Universal Design. She will describe the radical possibilities in UDL\, as well as critiques. She will present some of her own work\, which seeks to integrate design thinking as a process for educators to use UDL to (re)design curriculum\, spaces and systems. \nPrior to the workshop\, participants are encouraged to read chapter 4\, “Universal Design\,” from Jay Timothy Dolmage’s Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education (2017)\, available here. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group and the UCSB Disabled Students Program \nATTEND DISCUSSION
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-workshop-a-disability-studies-perspective-on-universal-design-for-learning/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210315T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210315T134500
DTSTAMP:20260416T202958
CREATED:20210310T182837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210310T183000Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Designing Disability
DESCRIPTION:ATTEND DISCUSSION \nWe will be discussing Professor Elizabeth Guffey’s introduction and chapter 1 to her latest book\, Designing Disability (Bloomsbury\, 2018). A Professor of Art & Design History\, and Director of the MA in Modern and Contemporary Art\, Criticism and Theory at State University of New York at Purchase\, Professor Guffey co-edited Making Disability Modern (Bloomsbury\, 2020) and is the founding editor of the peer-reviewed journal Design and Culture (Routledge). \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, the Department of English\, and the Department of Comparative Literature \nATTEND DISCUSSION
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-designing-disability/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T180000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Kings and Cripples in the Arthurian World
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/87492220092?pwd=RExPbnl0N3d0ZVR2ZGpEdkJ1cHdPQT09 \nWhile the lived reality of disability in the Middle Ages was surely a wretched one\, at the same time we encounter persistent associations between disabled and royal or aristocratic bodies in medieval culture\, its imagery and narratives. Nowhere is this truer than in the Arthurian world\, at whose core there lies a powerful but immobile figure\, the Rich Fisher King. This talk looks at such linkage through Arthurian texts and illustrated manuscripts\, especially the vast Lancelot Prose Cycle. \nChristopher Baswell is the Acting Chair of the Department of English and the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of English at Barnard College. He is also Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group and the UCSB English Department Early Modern Center \nZoom meeting link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/87492220092?pwd=RExPbnl0N3d0ZVR2ZGpEdkJ1cHdPQT09
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-kings-and-cripples-in-the-arthurian-world/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210201T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210201T133000
DTSTAMP:20260416T202958
CREATED:20210126T174644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210126T195230Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Shifting Paradigms Around Neurodiversity
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/82480745298?pwd=a3RkcUVKaWJoN0dEUkZPQjFQWVN1dz09 \nThis discussion will focus on thinking about new paradigms in autism and neurodiversity. We will read the article titled “Throw Away the Master’s Tools: Liberating Ourselves From the Pathology Paradigm\,” by Nick Walker (from Loud Hands: Autistic People\, Speaking [2012]) and the introduction to Autistic Disturbances (2018) by Julia Miele Rodas. If time permits\, the discussion will also include Mad at School: Rhetorics of Disability and Academic Life (2011) by Margaret Price\, which tackles mental illness/health\, college students/faculty\, psychology\, mentally disabled persons\, personal narratives\, communication\, and stereotypes. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group \nZoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/82480745298?pwd=a3RkcUVKaWJoN0dEUkZPQjFQWVN1dz09
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-shifting-paradigms-around-neurodiversity/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T133000
DTSTAMP:20260416T202958
CREATED:20201020T225548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201020T231240Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Assistive Technologies and Erotic Adaptation: Queer Disability in the Renaissance
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nSimone Chess will focus on early modern disability\, queerness\, and adaptive technologies. Chess is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Gender\, Sexuality\, and Women’s Studies Program at Wayne State University in Detroit. She is the author of Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature: Gender\, Performance\, and Queer Relations (Routledge\, 2016) and coeditor\, with Colby Gordon and Will Fisher\, of a special issue on “Early Modern Trans Studies” for the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group and UCSB’s Early Modern Center \nREGISTER NOW
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-assistive-technologies-and-erotic-adaptation-queer-disability-in-the-renaissance/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201030T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201030T123000
DTSTAMP:20260416T202958
CREATED:20201020T223016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201020T231233Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: “Cripistemologies of Pain”
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nDrawing together insights from disability theory\, literary studies\, and interdisciplinary pain studies\, Lau’s lecture contributes to what Alyson Patsavas has called “cripistemologies of pain” that prompt us to think from the position of pained lived experience to imagine radically different models of care that move beyond the reductive binary of either amelioration or annihilation of pain. Can we theorize a standpoint (or what Rosemarie Garland-Thomson has called “sitpoint”) theory of pain that attends to its crip and queer chronicities while also working toward new forms of care and interdependence? \nTravis Chi Wing Lau’s research and teaching focus on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature and culture\, health humanities\, and disability studies. Alongside his scholarship\, Lau frequently writes for venues of public scholarship like Synapsis: A Journal of Health Humanities\, Lapham’s Quarterly\, Public Books\, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. His poetry has appeared in Barren Magazine\, Wordgathering\, Glass\, South Carolina Review\, Foglifter\, and The New Engagement\, as well as in two chapbooks\, The Bone Setter (Damaged Goods Press\, 2019) and Paring (Finishing Line Press\, 2020 forthcoming). \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group and UCSB’s Early Modern Center \nREGISTER NOW
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-cripistemologies-of-pain/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201020T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201020T200000
DTSTAMP:20260416T202958
CREATED:20201016T173800Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nIn honor of National Disability Employment Awareness Month and the thirtieth anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act\, the Disability Studies Initiative is joining the Carsey-Wolf Center and the UCSB Library to host a virtual discussion with the directors of Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (2020). \nIn the early 1970s\, teenagers with disabilities faced a future shaped by isolation\, discrimination\, and institutionalization. Located in the Catskills\, New York\, ramshackle Camp Jened exploded those confines. Jened was the teens’ freewheeling utopia\, a place where summertime sports\, smoking\, and make-out sessions awaited everyone; campers experienced liberation and full inclusion as human beings. Their bonds endured as many migrated west to Berkeley\, California\, a hotbed of activism where friends from Camp Jened realized that disruption\, civil disobedience\, and political participation could change the future for millions. \nCo-directors and producers Jim LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham will join Hannah Garibaldi (Film and Media Studies\, UCSB) for a virtual discussion of this fascinating documentary. ASL interpretation will be provided during the event. The film may be viewed in advance on Netflix. \nREGISTER NOW \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, the Carsey-Wolf Center\, the UCSB Library\, the Disabled Students Program\, Graduate Division\, and the Resource Center for Gender and Sexual Diversity (RCGSD)
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-crip-camp-a-disability-revolution/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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