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Center for Medical Humanities Seminar: Karen Nakamura, "Rethinking Disability Studies and More Than Just White Disability Studies"
Karen Nakamura, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Berkeley Disability Lab and the Haas Institute for an Inclusive Disability Studies at UC Berkeley, will lead a seminar, "Rethinking Disability Studies as more than just White Disability Studies: Intersections of Race/Gender/Sexuality and Non-Human Studies," on Monday, May 13th, in Humanities Gateway 1341, 1-3pm.
In 2006, Chris Bell published his provocative essay, “Introducing White Disability Studies,” which foregrounded the lack of intersectionality and diversity in the field of Disability Studies. Taking his provocation seriously, what has changed in the last decade and a half and what will it take for us to create a Disability Studies that is intersectionally aware of how race, gender, sexuality, and socioeconomic status affect not just the experience of disability but the epistemology of disability? Recent work in new materialist disability studies by scholars such as Sunaura Taylor, Tom Boellstoff, and Allison Kafer have further pushed the framework of thinking around disability to extend to human-non-human relations, the role of artificial intelligence, mediated communications, and the recategorization of non-human objects as disabled.
Please do not wear any fragrances or scented products to this seminar.
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4000 Humanities Gateway
Irvine, CA 92697
Center for Medical Humanities May 13 2019 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Humanities Gateway 1341