Program in Disability Studies at Georgetown University

04/26/2022

The Program in Disability Studies, The Department of English, and the Department of Philosophy are delighted to invite you to:

A Faculty Book Launch Celebration:
Featuring Jennifer Natalya Fink, Quill R. Kukla, and Joel Michael Reynolds
April 26, 2022 at 7 PM
Please join the authors of All Our Families: Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship, City Living: How Urban Dwellers and Urban Spaces Make One Another, and The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality for a celebratory conversation on Zoom!

Zoom Link:
https://georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUlcuupqTIqGNBTfoLBMxj6T75Cf4AfrjE2

The event will be ASL interpreted and Zoom captioned. For more information and other access needs, please email [email protected].

Here is the Zoom link to register for the event.

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Disability Studies Book Launch. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

04/13/2022

The Program in Disability Studies is delighted to invite you for a panel discussion and networking opportunity!

Inclusively and GU Disability Studies present
A Discussion of Disability and Employment

April 21, 2022 at 7:00 PM EST

Featuring panelists Susan Levine (Bain Capital), John D. Kemp (Lakeshore Foundation), Jennifer Sheehy (US Department of Labor), Tiffany Yu (Diversability), and Kenna Chic (California Health Care Foundation).

Moderated by Charlotte Dales of Inclusively.

Please register to join us on Zoom at:
https://lnkd.in/d28AE6qv

Captioning and ASL will be provided. For more information or other access needs, please email [email protected].

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04/04/2022

Join us this WEDNESDAY for a special event with Sins Invalid!!

Disability Wisdom for Climate Crisis: A Conversation with Sins Invalid
Wednesday, April 6, 6:30-8 pm ET

Register Ahead for Zoom Event: Bit.ly/SINSEVENT
ASL Interpreted/Zoom Captioned
Email [email protected] for more information or other access needs.

Sponsored by Georgetown Disability Studies Program, Department of Theater and Performance Studies, the Georgetown Humanities Initiative, the Gender+Justice Initiative, Georgetown Disability Alliance, and GREEN: Georgetown Renewable Energy and Environmental Network.

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03/10/2022

The deadline is fast approaching for the groundbreaking new Associate Director of Disability Studies position. Please apply, share, boost!

Located in a historic neighborhood in the nation's capital, Georgetown offers rigorous academic programs, a global perspective, exciting ways to take advantage of Washington, D.C., and a commitment to social justice. Our community is a tight knit group of remarkable individuals interested in intelle...

02/25/2022

Please join us for a virtual event presented by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, the Program in Disability Studies, the African American Studies Department, and the Gender+Justice Initiative.

DR. Sami Schalk

"ARTICULATING AND ENACTING BLACK DISABILITY POLITICS IN THE NATIONAL BLACK WOMEN’S HEALTH PROJECT"

MAR 2, 7-8:30 pm
Register at this link: https://georgetown.zoom.us/webinar/register/8316448825955/WN_mv9hEYYrQ3KmnVL-LjvLng

Dr. Sami Schalk’s (she/her) interdisciplinary research focuses broadly on disability, race, and gender in contemporary American literature and culture, especially speculative fiction and Black literature. She has published on literature, film, and material culture in a variety of peer-reviewed humanities journals.

Zoom captioned and ASL interpreted
Requests for accommodations can be made to [email protected]

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02/17/2022

https://www.georgetown.edu/event/friday-music-series-molly-joyce-composer-and-performer/
TOMORROW, Friday 2/18 12:30: Composer/performer Molly Joyce LIVE and on Zoom!

Co-sponsored by the GU Music Program and The Program in Disability Studies Composer and performer Molly Joyce was recently deemed one of the “most versatile, prolific and intriguing composers working under the vast new-music dome” by The Washington Post. Her music has additionally been described...

02/07/2022

The Program in Disability Studies is delighted to invite you to our first Spring 2022 Cluster Event with Artist/Scholar/Activist-in-Residence, Jerron Herman!

Please register to join us on Zoom at:
https://georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqdeqqrTMiHdIVpm2ab1vroueroRwa3QWJ


Artist Talk with Choreographer, Playwright, Model, & Activist

Jerron Herman

Wednesday, February 9, 7 p.m. ET on Zoom. FREE!

Join us for a participatory dialogue exploring art and art-making, disability aesthetics, and what it means to create “images of freedom.” Jerron Herman brings his experience with a multiplicity of artistic forms and mediums— including modeling, choreography, and writing— to share wisdom about process, identity, collaboration, and joy.


ASL interpreted / Zoom captioned
For more information or other access needs, email [email protected]

Cosponsored by the Georgetown Humanities Initiative

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Artist Talk with Jerron Herman
Wed Feb 9, 7 PM
Register to join via Zoom
Georgetown’s Program in Disability Studies is delighted to invite you to our first Spring event!!

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01/31/2022

Mark your calendars and get excited for our Spring events!!

DISABILITY STUDIES EVENTS SPRING 2022

All events are ASL interpreted and Zoom captioned. For other accessibility needs, please contact [email protected] All events on Zoom or hybrid—information to follow.

Feb 9 & March 23
Jerron Herman, Choreographer, playwright, model, activist
Artist’s Talk, February 9 at 7 pm
Master Class, March 23, 2-3 pm
Join our artist/scholar/activist-in-residence Jerron Herman for a talk and master class! He will share his work in a participatory fashion. Jerron will also be holding office hours, shop talks with other artists, studio visits, and more!

Feb 18 Molly Joyce, Musician and Composer
Performance & Talk, February 18 at noon
Performance/talk with innovative experimental musician Molly Joyce who focuses on disability as a creative source and designs instruments to suit her particular bodymind. Co-sponsored by the Department of Music.

April 6 Sins Invalid, Performance Group
Talk/Video Performance, April 6 at 6:30 p.m.
Moderated by Julia Watts Belser
Video and talk with groundbreaking queer/crip/disability justice performance group.

April 21 Inclusively Disability and the Workplace
Alumni Panel Discussion & Networking Opportunity, April 21 at 7 PM
Moderated by Charlotte Dales, Co-Founder and CEO of Inclusively
Panel discussion with Georgetown alumni on disability in the workplace: job search, disclosure, advocating for accommodations, thriving on the job, and advancement. Sponsored by Inclusively.

April 26 Disability Studies Book Launch at 7 pm
For Professors Fink, Kukla, and Reynolds
Readings by our DS authors! April 26 at 7 PM
Moderated by Libbie Rifkin
Celebrate new books by three Disability Studies professors!

Co-sponsored by the Georgetown Humanities Initiative

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11/14/2021

The Program in Disability Studies and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
are delighted to invite you to a discussion with
Professor Julie Avril Minich of the University of Texas at Austin

Please join us via Zoom on November 16, 2021 at 7 p.m. EST

Professor Julie Avril Minich
University of Texas, Austin


Disability and Border Politics
in conversation with Professor Emily Francomano

Tuesday, November 16, 7 p.m. ET on Zoom. FREE!


Zoom Link to Webinar:

https://georgetown.zoom.us/j/91723238876
No password required
Join us for a dialogue about contemporary politics at the US border. Professor Minich will explore the intersections of disability with race, gender, sexuality, and citizenship— how these and other experiences are both created by, and brought to bear on, the construction of borders. Please join us for this discussion of care, policy, and one of the central issues of our time: US border politics.

Moderated by Emily Francomano, Professor and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese



ASL interpreted / Zoom captioned
For more information or other access needs, please email [email protected]

Cosponsored by the Georgetown Humanities Initiative and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program

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US BORDER POLITICS
with Professor Julie Avril Minich

Tuesday, November 16 at 7pm on Zoom)

10/31/2021

***UPCOMING!!***

Disability Justice in Emergency Conditions

Sponsored by Georgetown University's Program in Disability Studies

Organized by Joel Michael Reynolds

Friday, November 5th 11:00am – 5:00pm EST
Zoom Link: https://georgetown.zoom.us/j/91723238876

ASL Interpreted / Zoom Captioned
For more information, including other access needs, please email [email protected]

Speakers: Ally Peabody Smith, April Dworetz, Desiree Valentine, Donna Thomson, Eva Feder Kittay, Johnathan Flowers, Joseph Stramondo, Katie Savin, Kevin Timpe, Mercer Gary, and Sarah Clark Miller.
Cosponsored by Georgetown Humanities Initiative and the Department of Philosophy

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10/18/2021

The Program in Disability Studies is delighted to invite you to a discussion with writers and activists JD Davids and Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad

Please join us via Zoom on October 19, 2021 at 7 p.m.

Zoom Link to Webinar:
https://georgetown.zoom.us/j/91723238876
No password required

JD Davids & Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad:
Generations of HIV, Disability, and Health Justice Activism

Tuesday, October 19, 7 p.m. ET on Zoom. FREE!

Join us for a dialogue exploring health justice activism, living well, and transgenerational HIV activism as a framework for justice and for understanding-- and perhaps surviving-- our current pandemic reality. JD Davids and Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad bring their wisdom about intersectional organizing and advocacy, chronic illness, and personal and communal pleasure and care to this community conversation.

Moderated by Libbie Rifkin, Teaching Professor of English and Disability Studies and Special Advisor for Disability to the Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
ASL interpreted / Zoom captioned
For more information or other access needs, email [email protected]

Cosponsored by the Georgetown Humanities Initiative and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program

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