University of Wisconsin Disability Studies Initiative is a group of faculty, students, staff, and community members at UW-Madison.
The UW Disability Studies Initiative is a transdisciplinary program dedicated to advancing knowledge by, about, and for people with disabilities. Disability studies explores models and theories that examine social, political, cultural, and economic factors that define disability and help determine personal and collective responses to difference. Disability studies scholars at UW concentrate on the
01/27/2022
Announcing the Keynote Speakers and Plenaries for the WGSC Conference 2022,
“Centering Resistance: Imaginings of a New Feminist Future,”
April 7-9, 2022.
Fully Virtual Event
See the full line-up of featured presentations here: https://bit.ly/3GznzbO
12/08/2021
Virtual event tomorrow (Thursday 12/9) at 4pm CST! You’re invited to the presentations of final projects by students in the course Disability Justice and Cultural Heritage. Each student wrote about a site of disability history, which will be added to a larger map created by the REPAIR collective. The Zoom event, course syllabus, and course schedule are linked via linktree: https://linktr.ee/uwdisabilitystudies.
10/07/2021
Reminder: Submit your proposals for "Center Resistance: Imaginings of a New Feminist Future" by November 7, 2021.
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The 2022 WGSC Conference is co-convened with the University of Wisconsin Gender & Women's Studies Librarian, and is fully virtual!
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Link to submit your proposal: https://bit.ly/3kYgppf