Events

Suffering “Well” Across Communities of Color: A Comparative Conversation on Race, Ableism, and Disability Studies with Mimi Khúc and Sami Schalk ♥ ★ ✚

Humanities Gateway 1030

Suffering “Well” Across Communities of Color: A Comparative Conversation on Race, Ableism, and Disability Studies with Mimi Khúc and Sami Schalk A comparative and intersectional conversation on race, ableism, and disability studies exploring ableism in Asian American and African American communities and how ethnic studies can more fully develop a disability lens. This event is…

Unpacking Ableism in Our Lives: A Workshop on Developing a Disability Studies Lens ♥ ★ ✚

1010 Humanities Gateway

Unpacking Ableism in Our Lives: A Workshop on Developing a Disability Studies Lens A workshop on why and how we should develop a disability studies framework for understanding the world around us and our own lives. We ask that participants read the Lateral forum on critical disability studies before the workshop, consisting of three short…

ZotAbility Ally Faculty, Staff & TA Training ♥ ★ ✚

Zoom

UC Irvine Disability Services Center invites you to attend a remote, 90-minute workshop to become a ZotAbility Ally.  This workshop is designed to challenge personal biases, provide awareness, promote diversity and includes a panel to hear first-hand experiences from UCI Students. Join us for the upcoming ZotAbility Ally Faculty, Staff & TA Training session: Thursday,…

Open In Emergency: Differential Unwellness Within UCI Student Communities ✚

Zoom

Open In Emergency: Differential Unwellness Within UCI Student Communities A Project by the UCI Center for Medical Humanities Join us for a year-long series of events exploring mental health and unwellness within student communities at UCI and beyond. The series will bring Open In Emergency: A Mental Health Project (OIE), a multi-media, humanities, arts, and activist-based…

An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration ♥

Zoom

The UCI Center for Medical Humanities hosts a virtual celebration of Dr. Adria L. Imada’s new book, An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration (University of California Press, 2022). We are delighted to convene a convivial gathering with door prizes and reflections by a team of feminist scholars. Dr. Eleana…