DISABILITY STUDIES STUDY GROUP AUTUMN SCHEDULE

12.30-1.50 p.m. in Saieh Hall 141 (unless otherwise noted)

Wednesday 10/2 – Informal meet and greet

Group Discussion on “Pain” based on following readings

“Stigma, Liminality, and Chronic Pain: Mind-Body Borderlands” by Jean E. Jackson

“Sick Woman Theory” by johanna hedva

Wednesday 10/16– Zihao Lin, PhD student, University of Chicago, CHD

“The Barrier-free Dream”. Futurity of Accessibility and Disabled Startuping in Southern China”

Wednesday 10/30– Prof. Michele Friedner, University of Chicago, CHD

“A mother’s sense and the work of caring for a sense”

Wednesday 11/13– Emily Wang, PhD student, Northwestern University, Technology and Social Behavior

“Designing Writing Tools for Professionals with Dyslexia”

Wednesday 11/27-Carsten Mildner, PhD student, University of Beyreuth, Germany

“Being deaf outside and beyond the networks” (Chapter from Dissertation titled- DEAF-DEAF-DIFFERENT. Ambiguities of being deaf in Benin)