WFU Disability Studies Initiative to host virtual talk by Liat Ben-Moshe
Wake Forest faculty have recently launched a Disability Studies Initiative. The aims of the Disability Studies Initiative are to support faculty in building interdisciplinary and intersectional disability studies content into their pedagogy and research, to give students and other members of the Wake community the opportunity to examine issues raised by disability in all facets of life from a humanistic perspective, and to work in concert with campus partners to improve the accessibility of academic life at Wake Forest.
For its inaugural public event, the Disability Studies Initiative will be hosting Liat Ben-Moshe for a virtual talk, “Decarcerating Disability,” on Tuesday, April 5 at 4 p.m. Ben-Moshe is an associate professor of criminology, law and justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her book, Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) offers a genealogy of the deinstitutionalization of people with disabilities in the U.S. in the 20th century as a result of the closure of disability institutions. The book connects this history with current prison abolition efforts, laying the groundwork for coalitions between racial and disability justice projects.
This talk is free and open to the public. Live transcription will be provided. For other access needs, please contact guptaka@wfu.edu.
This talk, organized by the Wake Forest Disability Studies Initiative, is sponsored by the WFU Humanities Institute with support made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Additional support has been provided by the African American Studies Program, the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Disability Employee Affinity/Support Group, and the Race, Inequality, and Policy Initiative (RIPI).
Wake Forest faculty have recently launched a Disability Studies Initiative. The aims of the Disability Studies Initiative are to support faculty in building interdisciplinary and intersectional disability studies content into their pedagogy and research, to give students and other members of the Wake community the opportunity to examine issues raised by disability in all facets of life from a humanistic perspective, and to work in concert with campus partners to improve the accessibility of academic life at Wake Forest.