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The Global Arts + Humanities 2020-21 Society of Fellows graduate workshop series brings together artists, scholars and activists working in a broad range of disciplines aligning with our 2020-21 theme of Human Rights: Pasts and Futures. Areas of expertise include studies in art, performance and activism; critical human rights; disability; environmental justice; incarceration; Indigeneity; intersectional rhetorics; migrant and refugee rights; race and citizenship; and sexuality, among others.
Workshops will be capped at thirty participants; priority will be given to related graduate seminars, Society of Undergraduate Fellows and Graduate Team Fellows. RSVPs are required.
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DISABILITY AND STATE VIOLENCE
October 20, 10-11:30 a.m.
Workshop leaders: Sona Hill Kazemi (Research Justice at the Intersections Fellow—Mills College) and Rachel Lewis (Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies Program—George Mason University)
Moderator: Margaret Price (Associate Professor, Department of English—Ohio State)
People with disabilities face multiple human rights violations, and yet their precarity is often more recognized metaphorically — as general vulnerability — than in terms of the material conditions that produce inaccessibility and persecution and render them invisible. The two presenters for this session work on global dimensions of disability and human rights. Rachel Lewis’ work focuses on the precarity of people with disabilities in the political asylum process and in refugee narratives more generally. Sona Hill Kazemi will works with narratives told by survivors of the Iran Iraq war. The workshop will consider the multiple global intersections of disability and state violence.
