Center on Human Policy

03/27/2019

The sixth “Cripping” the Comic Con symposium is Saturday, April 13, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the Schine Student Center. The event welcomes all community members to a day centered on this year’s theme, “And Justice for All…?,” focusing on disability justice, freedom of expression and comi...

03/15/2019

Our condolences to the Schneiderman family. Hillary was involved in the formative years of the CHP and more

Hillery Susan Schneiderman March 3, 2019 Hillery Susan Schneiderman, 83, died peacefully on March 3d at Francis House in Syracuse after a long illness

02/15/2019

Our condolences to the family of Jeanne Chatfield, a long-time disability advocate here in Syracuse.

Jeanne (Defelice ) Chatfield 02/04/2019 Jeanne DeFelice Chatfield, age 97, died peacefully at her home in Fairmount on February 4, 2019, after a long

01/17/2019

Congratulations to Christy Ashby and Julia White on their important work!

Two faculty members from the Syracuse University School of Education have relaunched Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning, the journal of the New York Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, as an online, open-access clearinghouse on the preparation and professional development of e...

10/14/2018

On May 17, 1968, two Roman Catholic priests with Syracuse ties entered Local Draft Board No. 33 in Catonsville, Maryland. There Rev. Daniel Berrigan, Rev. Philip Berrigan and seven others snatched Selective Service records, then burned them with homemade na**lm to protest the Vietnam War. This actio...

10/03/2018

"Throughout the month of October, the Disability Cultural Center (DCC) and a host of campus partners and student organizations will host Disability Awareness and Appreciation Month. The month’s events will focus on disability and its many intersections."

Throughout the month of October, the Disability Cultural Center (DCC) and a host of campus partners and student organizations will host Disability Awareness and Appreciation Month. The month’s events will focus on disability and its many intersections.

03/06/2018

A short article about the Robert Bogdan Collection now housed at the Yale Medical Library:

3500 REAL PHOTO POSTCARDS, PLUS, Now @ Yale Medical Library

“I'm feeling separation anxiety," Dr. Robert Bogdan told us, when we asked him about the big move he undertook recently. "It has been a life's work. and now it is elsewhere. I am used to thinking and looking at them much of the time."

DHM fans know that we regularly use elements from the “Robert Bogdan Collection” in our work. Bob's disability history image collection has greatly enhanced the ability of all disability studies scholars to establish the full range of the representation of people with disabilities in 20th century photography. And, scholars of the future will greatly appreciate this indefatigable collector's treasure-hunting efforts. Recently, all 3500 images in the collection were acquired by Yale University’s Medical Library Special Collections, which has already posted a preliminary inventory of the archives online.

Bogdan is one of disability history’s foundational scholars. His work is especially attentive to the visual rhetoric of disability, including the material production and distribution context of these ephemeral artifacts—photo postcards, pamphlets, carte de visites. He has written about the images and pamphlets distributed by P. T. Barnum as part of the American Museum and later in circus sideshows and by disabled beggars selling a variety of services and objects. He coined the phrase "citizen portraits" to describe photo postcards with families and individual photo portraits. His books include Freak Show: Presenting Human Odditites for Amusement and Profit, Picturing Disability, and more.

What many in the disability scholarship community may not know is that Bogdan also has a spectacular collection of panoramic photographs that includes images of mutual aid society members, institutions, union and other laboring groups, athletic teams, musicians, school faculty and student groups, veterans, and more He also collects and writes about photographers and postcards associated with the Adirondacks. Bogdan is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Social Science and Education at Syracuse University. After teaching for 35 years at Syracuse he and his wife retired to rural Vermont.

Read Yale's Announcement online at:

https://library.medicine.yale.edu/blog/medical-historical-library-news/robert-bogdan-disability-collection

02/26/2018

We offer our condolences to Jane’s family. Jane was a member of the Center’s Advocacy Board for several years.

Read the Obituary and view the Guest Book, leave condolences or send flowers. | Jane Gershaw, 72, of DeWitt, died on Friday, February 23, 2018 after a struggle with cancer and a longer battle against multiple sclerosis. She was born June 6, 1945 in Brooklyn, New York, the

02/20/2018

Congratulations to Arlene Kanter for her continued work on law and disability!

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