Past events

Fall 2023

• Watch Party: "Art+Medicine: Disability, Culture and Creativity," Oct. 29, 2023.

Summer 2023

• Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2023: Amplifying Accessibility. University of Minnesota, May 18, 2023.

Spring 2023

• RIDGS Book Talk: Dr. Jennifer Eun-Jung Row in Conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Freeman, Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage, April 24, 2023.
• Minnesota Transform Showcase, April 17 to April 21, 2023. Including Dr. Angela Carter, "GRUDGE (Groundbreaking Research on Under-resourced, Disabled, Graduate Experiences) Report: Preliminary Findings," April 18, 2023.
• RIDGS Book Talk: Dr. Erin Durban in Conversation with Dr. Omise'eke Tinsley, The Sexual Politics of Empire, April 13, 2023.
• Queer/Trans* Ecologies Symposium, Eli Clare, Sandor Katz, Abraham Weil, Carly Thomsen, Heather Davis, Queer Ecologies Hanky Project, Mel Y. Chen, Eva Hayward, Lorena Munoz, Erin L. Durban, Corinne Teed, Jennifer Row, Michelle Murphy, Patricia Kaishian, Martin Manalansan, Kale Bantigue Fajardo, Cleo Wolfle Hazard, Juno Salazar Parrenas, Anahi Russo-Garrido, Macarena Gomez-Barris, Dylan McCarthy Blackston. Panels, Art Exhibit, Workshops, Fermentation, Dance Party. With Queer/Trans* Ecologies Interdisciplinary Collaborative Workshop. March 23-25, 2023. 
• Center on Women, Gender, and Public Policy's "Campus Conversations on Reproductive Justice," including Erika Rodriguez, March 1, 2023. 
• Teaching with Access and Inclusion, February 2 and 16, March 2, 2023, through CEI. cancelled.
• "Disability Justice: An Accessibility Ambassadors Event," Angela Carter and Katie Loop, Accessibility Ambassadors Event, January 26, 2023.

Fall 2022

• "Academic Ableism Webinar," Katie Loop and Angela Carter, Accessibility Ambassadors Event, December 15, 2022. 
• Pandemic Politics and the Viral Underclass: Understanding Sickness and Wellness, Steven Thrasher, Co-sponsor with IAS, November 17, 2022.
• Reading Club: “Pandemic Politics and the Viral Underclass: Understanding Sickness and Wellness,” November 14, 2022.
• Accessibility in Research Roundtable, October 28, 2022. 
• CDSC "Sweater Weather" Welcome Back Reception, October 18, 2022. 
• Minnesota Transform Research Study, aiming to deepen understanding of the systemic barriers and the survival strategies of marginalized, disabled graduate students (began September 2022). 
• Teaching with Access and Inclusion (TAI) Program, with Center for Educational Innovation. To register for future events, please visit the TAI website. 

Summer 2022

• The Interdisciplinary Collaborative Working Group, “Refusing Disposability: Racial and Disability Justice Toward Another World," May through August. 

Spring 2022

• CDS and Queer/Trans * Ecologies Reading Group, April 4. 
• Jonathan Hsy Visit and Lecture Series, supported by the Center for Premodern Studies, the Uncommon Bodies Reading group and the CDSC
  • Uncommon Bodies, the Center for Premodern Studies, and the CDSC reading group on Hsy's Antiracist Medievalisms, prior to Hsy's visit
  • “Medievalism Meets Disability Justice: Life Writing and Social Change,” April 28.
  • Hsy's "Disability Pedagogy Syllabus Workshop," April 29.
• IAS Teaching with Access and Inclusion, co-sponsored MNT, weekly on January and April.

Fall 2021

• "IAS Thursdays | Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization, Disability Justice, and Prison Abolition," Liat Ben-Moshe, October 21^st.

Spring 2021

• IAS Critical Disability Studies Research Colloquium, "Virtual Lightning Round," featuring Angela M. Carter, Jessica Horvath Williams, Jennifer Row, Erin L. Durban, Rachel Presley, Megan Finch, Laura Leppink, Sarah Pawlicki. April 21^st. 
• Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey. Salih Can Açiksöz, March 26, 2021.

Fall 2020

• "Unpredictable Embodiment and the Limits of (This)Order." December 4th.
• "Plastic vitalities: critical disability studies approaches to environmental injury in the anthropocene." November 6^th.
• "Race, disability, and voting rights." October 23^rd.
• "Why Mental Health Matters." Teaching with access and inclusion discussion series. October 15^th.
• "Cripping the welfare queen: the radical potential of disability politics." October 9th.
• "Fall kick-off." September 25^th.
• "Supporting Students: Reframing Disability." Teaching with access and inclusion discussion series. September 17^th.
• "Centering Access & Inclusion." Teaching with access and inclusion discussion series. August 20^th.

Spring 2020

• "A Radical Pedagogy Conversation: Teaching Disability Access and Justice." Presented by Dr. Allison Hobgood, Willamette College. February 14^th.
• CDSC Foundations Series: "What is Ableism?" Facilitated by Jay Wilson, Senior Access Consultant at the Disability Resource Center and Sarah Garcia, PhD Candidate in Sociology. March 23^rd.
• CDSC Foundations Series: "Disability Justice During COVID19." Facilitated by Dr. Angela M. Carter, Access Consultant at the Disability Resource Center.
• "The Critical Disability Studies Collective: An Informational Event." Facilitated by Dr. Angela Carter and Jessica HorvathWilliams, CDSC CoChairs. May 20^th.

Fall 2019

• CDSC Foundations Series: "What is Critical Disability Studies now?" September 27^th.
• CDSC Foundations Series: "Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Dis/ability" October 18^th.
• CDSC Foundations Series: "Disability Pedagogy." November 1^st.
• CDSC Foundations Series: "Disability Justice." December 6^th.
• "Disability Justice and Sexual Violence" A presentation by Lee Blair, GWSS Major. December 6^th.

Spring 2019

• "Useless Eaters, Public Charges, Hulking Monsters: Disability and Surviving State Violence." A Lecture by Lydia X. Z. Brown. February 1^st.
• "Cripping Intersectionality: Neurodiversity and Disability Justice" A lecture by Lydia X. Z. Brown February 1^st.
• "No Liberation Without Disability Justice: Disrupting Ableism As Community Organizers and Freedom Fighters" A Workshop Facilitated by Lydia X. Z. Brown. February 2^nd.
• "Dreaming the Disabled Future With Leah Lakshmi PiepznaSamarasinha." February 27^th.
• "CareWebs Experiences in Collective Care" facilitated by Leah Lakshmi PiepznaSamarasinha. February 27^th.
• "Rethinking Interdependency: Desiring Messy Dependency." A Lecture by Akemi Nishida. April 19^th.

Fall 2018

• "Equity, Justice & Difference at Home & Abroad." A lecture by Nirmala Erevelles. September 25^th.
• "Dreaming Wild Disability Justice Dreams: A Kick Off Discussion Event." September 27^th.
• "Disability Justice in Activism and Organizing: Local Action to StateWide Change." Panel facilitated by Jay Wilson, Senior Access Consultant at the Disability Resource Center at the University of Minnesota. October 18^th. Panelists included:
  • Rick Cardenas, longtime local disability activist and organizer currently working with the ReConnect Rondo Project.
  • Mai Thor, Civic Engagement Coordinator at the Minnesota Department of Human Rights.
  • Octavian E. Robinson, Professor of ASL, Interpreting Studies, and Communications Equity at St. Catherine University.
  • Nikki VillavicencioTollison, Disability Rights Activist.
• "Disability Justice in CampusWide Organizing & Activism". Panel facilitated by Sarah Garcia, PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of Minnesota. November 15^th. Panelists included members from:
  • The Disabled Studies Cultural Center (DSCC)
  • The Organization for Graduate and Professional Students with Disabilities (OGPSD)
  • The Critical Disability Studies Collective (CDSC)
  • The Access Assistants from the Disability Resource Center (DRC)

Spring 2018

• Reading Group: The Right to Maim by Jasbir Puar. January 26^th.
• Reading Group: Academic Ableism by Jay Dolmage. February 2^nd.
• Black Disability Studies Reading Group. February 23^rd and March 23^rd.
  • Is Disability Studies Actually White Disability Studies? by Chris Bell.
  • Blue Blackness, Black Blueness: Making Sense of Blackness and Disability by Theri A. Pickens.
  • The Greatest Degree of Perfection: Disability and the Constitution of Race in American Slave Law by Jennifer Barclay.
  • Bitch you Must Be Crazy: Representations of Mental Illness in Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Consider Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by Diana Louis.
  • Metaphorically Speaking: Ableist Metaphors in Feminist Writing by Sami Schalk.
  • Select articles on police brutality against black disabled people by Leroy Moore.
• “Interrogating AntiBlack Racism and Disablement: A Critical Disability Studies Symposium.” April 12^th and 13^th. Speakers and presentations included:
  • "The Untold Black Disabled Reality Through Hard Hitting Poetry and Song." Performance by Leroy F. Moore, Founder of Krip-Hop Nation and Co-Founder of Sins Invalid.
  • "The Colored Insane: African American Narratives of Mental Disability in the 19^th Century." Presentation by Dr. Diana Louis, University of Michigan.
  • "Organizing Racial & Disability Justice in Chicago." Presentation by Candace Coleman, Access Living Community Organizer.
  • "Black Women’s Speculative Fiction and Deconstruction of Able-Mindedness." Presented by Dr. Sami Schalk, University of Wisconsin - Madison.
  • "Strategies of Resistance." Keynote panel facilitated by Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, writer, independent scholar, poet, activist and educator. Panelists included: Candace Coleman, Diana Louis, Leroy Moore, and Sami Schalk.

Fall 2017

• "What’s Critical about Critical Disability Studies Now?" A Welcome Event and Discussion. September 29^th.
• "Sustainable Design Strategies and the Future of Accessibility". Invited Lecture by Johnna Keller. October 26^th.
• "Imagining Cultures of Access: Race, Disability, and Mental Health On Campus." Invited Lectures and a roundtable discussion with Dr. Margaret Price, Ohio State University and Dr. Mimi Khúc, Georgetown University. October 27^th.

Spring 2017

• "Boys in the Bubble: Sexual Liberation, Disability and Prime Time Television." Visiting Lecture by Dr. Julie Passanante Elman, University of Missouri. February 24^th.
• "Empire’s Other other: Thinking Intersectionally in Transnational Contexts." Invited Lecture by Dr. Nirmala Erevelles, University of Alabama. April 14^th.
• "Pride, not Pity: Disability as a Culture." Part of the Office of Equity and Diversity Program Series "Critical Conversations about Diversity and Justice." April 21^st.
• Visiting Artist Talk by Park McArthur at the Regis Center for Art

Fall 2016

• "Still ‘Absolutely Positive’." Documentary screening and discussion. December 2^nd.
• "Disability Justice is a Feminist Issue." Lecture as a part of the Women’s Center Feminist Fridays.

Spring 2016

• "Disability Liberated: Mourn the Dead and Fight Like Hell of the Living" Documentary screening and discussion.
• "Defective, Deficient, Burdensome: Thinking about Bad Bodies." Visiting Lecture by Eli Clare.
• "Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement." Documentary screening and discussion.

Fall 2015

• "Dialogues in Dis/Ability" A Series of 4 Film Screenings & Discussions. Topics Included: Defining Disability, The History of the Disability Rights Movement, Disability Activism in MN, and Disability Arts & Culture. October 16^th, October 30^th, November 13^th, and November 20^th. Films included:
  • "Fixated: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement."
  • "Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back."
  • "Offense taken: A Community Response to the ‘R’ Word"
  • "The Real Story: Media Coverage of Disability Issues in Minnesota."
  • "Disability Culture Rap"
  • "Sins Invalida: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty."