The Disability Studies Study Group is pleased to announce our winter quarter schedule! Spaces are still available to present in Spring quarter, so please contact the workshop coordinators if interested.
All meetings are in Rosenwald Hall 329 12:00-1:30pm unless otherwise noted. An overall campus map is at https://maps.uchicago.edu/, and one focused on accessible entrances and exits to Rosenwald is at https://maps.uchicago.edu/ada/mainquad/rosenwal.shtml
1/5-Reading Discussion: Mad at School by Margaret Price’s
1/19-Reading Discussion: of “Un/Safe Disclosures; Scenes of Disability and Trauma” by Alison Kafer.
2/2- Presentation: Chao Wang, Ph.D. Student in History. Working title: “Christian Missionaries, Blind Converts, and Braille Literacy in China (1879-1911)”
2/16 -Presentation: Dr. Alyson Patsavas, Clinical Assistant Professor, UIC Disability and Human Development. Please stay tuned for talk title
3/2 – Presentation: Shruti Vaidya, Ph.D. student in Comparative Human Development. Working title: “Care, Disability, and the Indian Nation-State”
Any materials to be read before the meeting can be accessed here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1d482dTkFcoUXFGZ1JzNjlnYWs?usp=sharing