Trigger Warning! Reading, Politics, and Mental Wellness
Please join Lit and Mind for this presentation of "Trigger Warning! Reading, Politics, and Mental Wellness,” an Arnhold Collaborative Research Project featuring two Lit and Mind affiliated graduate students, Milena Messner and Aisha Anwar, and facilitated by Jesse Miller.
This event will introduce the research publication and the podcast mini-series that the researchers have created. There will be short presentations and time for Q and A. Join to learn more about the history and politics of trigger warnings, and to check out inspiring and collaborative research! All are very welcome.
Art by Mina Nur Basmaci.
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Time: May 24, 2021 05:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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A Disability Studies Perspective on Universal Design for Learning
Join the Disability Studies Initiative for this exciting talk! Rachel Lambert (Assistant Professor in Special Education & Mathematics Education, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, UC Santa Barbara) will offer a workshop on Universal Design for Learning. She will shed light on its development, including roots in Universal Design, and will describe the radical possibilities in UDL as well as critiques. She will also present her own work, which seeks to integrate design thinking as a process for educators to use UDL to (re)design curriculum, spaces, and systems.
Lambert's scholarly work investigates the intersections between Disability Studies in Education and mathematics education. She has conducted longitudinal studies of how Latinx students with learning disabilities construct identities as mathematics learners, and how mathematical pedagogy shapes how teachers perceive students as disabled.
Please email disabilitystudies@english.ucsb.edu for more information. The Zoom link for this meeting can be found below.
EMC: "Assistive Technologies and Erotic Adaptation: Queer Disability in the Renaissance"
UCSB English’s Early Modern Center with collaboration with the Disability Studies Initiative presents Dr. Simone Chess (Wayne State University) on Assistive Technologies and Erotic Adaptation: Queer Disability in the Renaissance.
Simone Chess is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program at Wayne State University in Detroit [and a 2008 UCSB PhD!]. She is the author of Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature: Gender, Performance, and Queer Relations (Routledge, 2016) and coeditor, with Colby Gordon and Will Fisher, of a special issue on “Early Modern Trans Studies” for the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. Working with UCSB”s EBBA, Simone recently worked with Wayne State grad students to build the Warrior Women Project, a database of 113 ballads where characters assigned-female-at-birth consider or actually do pass as male soldiers. Chess is currently working on two new book projects, one on Shakespeare and trans culture for the Routledge “Spotlight on Shakespeare” series and another focused on early modern disability, queerness, and adaptive technologies.
You will need to register for this event. Please do so here.
Contact Anita Raychawdhuri, EMC Fellow at araychawdhuri@ucbs.edu or emcfellow@gmail.com for more information or questions.
EMC: "Cripistemologies of Pain"
UCSB English’s Early Modern Center with collaboration with the Disability Studies Initiative presents Dr. Travis Chi Wing Lau (Kenyon College) on Cripistemologies of Pain.
Dr. Travis Chi Wing Lau's talk represents some early thinking toward the conception of a second book project on the literary and philosophical problem of pain in 18th and 19th century British literature and culture. Lau is interested in tracing the ideological underpinnings of what we often describe as a new, modern crisis: the opioid epidemic. Drawing together insights from disability theory, literary studies, and interdisciplinary pain studies, Lau's project contributes to what Alyson Patsavas has called "cripistemologies of pain" that prompt us to think from the position of pained lived experience to imagine radically different models of care that move beyond the reductive binary of either amelioration or annihilation of pain. Can we theorize a standpoint (or what Rosemarie Garland-Thomson has called "sitpoint") theory of pain that attends to its crip and queer chronicities while also working toward new forms of care and interdependence?
You will need to register for this event. Please do so here.
Contact Anita Raychawdhuri, EMC Fellow at araychawdhuri@ucbs.edu or emcfellow@gmail.com for more information or questions.
"Care Beyond the Human" with Columbia University Professor of English Rachel Adams
Hosted by UCSB Disability Studies Reading/Activist Group
Taken from the coda to a book about the aesthetics and politics of care, this presentation with Columbia University professor of English Rachel Adams will explore the possibilities and perils of extending human care relations to other species, the environment, and non-living matter. It isn’t hard to imagine caring for a beloved dog, a retired horse, a fluffy baby seal, or even a giant redwood. But I wonder how far outward different theoretical models of care extend, and how they are changed when the agent is a flatworm, a mushroom, slime mold, or a robot? Is care itself an anthropocentric concept that always requires imagining the other possessed of human motivations, agency, and emotional depth? And if not, what are the driving motivations involved in such caring activity? I consider a series of artistic and social experiments with extra-human care as I seek to better understand the contours of such an expansion, as well as the place of the human in care networks that include other species and non-human actors.
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"Curating the Invisible: Disability and Climate Change" with artist curator Aidan Moesby
Hosted by UCSB Disability Studies Reading/Activist Group.
This talk will explore some of the issues around Disability Arts, climate change, and the schism between the ‘mainstream’ and ‘disabled’ art worlds. Disabled artists have been largely written out of art history in the same way as disability and disabled people have largely been erased from cultural history as a whole. The 'art world' is one based on privilege, is it still the only model or is it possible to create a more inclusive, accessible and diverse arts ecology? As an artist and curator Aidan Moesby invites you to a conversation to explore how we can make the invisible visible.
Please RSVP for this event by emailing Stephanie Goldstein at sgoldstein@ucsb.edu.