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March 2020
From Passing to Becoming: Cochlear Implants and Auditory Verbal Therapy in India
by Michele Friedner Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago Monday, March 2nd, 2020 3:15pm Social Sciences 8417
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Indisposable: Structures of Support after the Americans with Disabilities Act
UW DSI members Ellen Samuels, Jill Casid, and Sami Schalk are featured in a year-long collaboration with the Ford Foundation called Indisposable: Structures of Support after the Americans with Disabilities Act. Curated by Jessica Cooley (PhD Candidate, Art…
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Resistance and Reimagination: Gender, Change, and The Arts
April 8-10, 2021 Virtual Event | Free and Open to the Public Co-Convened by The UW System Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium and UW-Madison’s 4W Initiative: Women & Wellbeing in Wisconsin & the World Join us April…
Find out more »LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA: Crip of Color Made Mutual Aid and Survival Networks in the Triple Pandemic
A Virtual Performance Lecture Co-Organized by The UW System Gender and Women’s Studies Consortium The Mellon-Borghesi Workshop on Care: Politics, Performances, Publics, Practices, and Co-Sponsored by UW-Madison’s Gender & Sexuality Campus Center, The Department of…
Find out more »Disability Pride Madison
Disability Pride Madison is a grassroots organization that has produced the Disability Pride Festival for the last eight years. Performances at the festival all include at least one performer with a disability. Board members from…
Find out more »May 2021
Relations of Care Across and After Worlds Conference
Questions of care—practices addressing the fundamentally interconnected needs, abilities, and responsibilities of embodied others and selves and our environments—are at the very heart of this moment. The brutally uneven impacts of COVID-19, police violence, incarceration, accelerating hunger,…
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The OS Presents: HYPERMOBILITIES & PA(I)RING(S)
The Operating System & Liminal Lab are thrilled to invite you to another incredible launch celebrating our 2021 project cohort! On September 30th, please join us online to launch the newest book from Ellen Samuels,…
Find out more »April 2022
Centering Resistance: Imaginings of a New Feminist Future
Co-Convened by UW System Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium and UW System Gender and Women’s Studies Librarian Fully Virtual Event This year’s theme rests on an urgent line of inquiry: What has the pandemic revealed…
Find out more »Alice Wong in Conversation with Dr. Sami Schalk
Alice Wong (she/her) is a disabled activist, writer, media maker, and consultant. She is the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and…
Find out more »Dr. Kim Nielsen
Historian and Disability Studies scholar Kim Nielsen is Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Toledo where she teaches courses on disability history, activism, gender, eugenics, and law. Nielsen is author of the widely…
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