Pacific and Western Disability Studies Symposium: Connecting Disability Studies, Disability Justice, and Disability Arts
University of Washington Seattle on May 21-23, 2015
We’re excited to make connections! Share widely. All are welcome.
Please be sure to sign up for lunch on Friday, May 22, using this form (deadline May 15):
http://goo.gl/forms/qeQzGQlKdK
Info about accessibility, content, sponsors:
Questions? Email to
uwdisabilitystudies@gmail.com
Featured activists, scholars, and artists are
Patty Berne of Sins Invalid, musician Mindie Lind, and DS scholars Susan
Schweik and Elizabeth Wheeler. The symposium aims to enhance
collaborations in the field of disability studies in
the region and to explore the relationship between the disability
justice framework and disability studies.
Thursday, May 21, 4-6:30pm, Disability Arts and Culture (refreshments 4pm) Kane Hall, Room 225
4:15 Mindie Lind, music performance
5:00 Film “Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty”
5:30 Q&A with Mindie Lind, Patty Berne, and ET Russian
Friday, May 22, 9am-4pm, Critical Collaborations
William H. Gates School of Law, Room 138
9:15 Welcome
9:30 Susan Schweik (UC Berkeley) keynote, “Disability Research and the Politics of Storytelling”
10:45 Elizabeth Wheeler (U of Oregon), Susan
Schweik, Sara Goering (UW), Sushil Oswal (UW Tacoma), “Cultivating and
Connecting Resources”
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Patty Berne with ET Russian and Seema Bahl,
“Exploring Divergences and Convergences of Disability Studies,
Disability Rights, and Disability Justice”
Saturday, May 23, 2-4pm, Disability Justice Husky Union Building (HUB), Room 250
