February 20th Dr. Akemi Nishida Coloquium

This Comparative Human Development Colloquium may be of interest to many of you!


Please join us on February 20, 2018, at Kent 120, for Dr. Akemi Nishida’s talk. There will be a reception at 4:30, with the talk starting at 5 pm. If you would like to meet with Akemi, please email Michele Friedner. Please forward this email to interested colleagues.

Title: “Interdependence and mechanism of respectability politics: Desiring toward being entangled in messy dependencies”

 Akemi Nishida uses research, education, and activism to investigate the ways in which ableism are exercised in relation to racism, cis-heteronormativity, xenophobia and other forms of social injustices. She also uses such methods to work towards cross-community solidarity for the liberation and celebration of community power. In her research and teaching, Nishida brings together disability studies, critical race theories, transnational feminist studies, and affect theory among others. Prior to joining Disability and Human Development and Women’s and Gender Studies departments at University of Illinois at Chicago as an assistant professor, Nishida earned her Ph.D. in Critical Social-Personality Psychology from the City University of New York.

 

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