Margaret Price – Precarity in Disability Studies and Academic Life Talk
March 5, 2020
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Please join us Thursday, March 5th for a series on accessibility and higher education. We are excited to welcome Margaret Price, Associate Professor and Director of Disability Studies Program in the English department at The Ohio State University, and author of Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life. Price will provide an interactive workshop, Cultivating Communities of Access in the Classroom, at 12:30pm and talk, Precarity in Disability Studies and Academic Life, at 4pm. Please see details below.
Margaret Price
Precarity in Disability Studies and Academic Life
4 - 5:30pm TALK, Rosenwald 329
Disability studies (DS) has reached a point that Margaret Price calls a "crisis of precarity" - a state in which neoliberal logics of wealth, privilege, and power are replicated within DS, doing material violence to some members of the discipline, while the discipline itself continues to flourish. Price outlines the ways DS has reached this crisis of precarity, and in response, offers a different way of thinking about disability, one that shifts emphasis from the individual bodies of disabled people to the state of the field and the mechanisms of higher education itself. To illustrate this theory, she presents findings from the ongoing Disabled Faculty Study, which includes a survey and interviews with disabled faculty from across the U.S. and other countries.
Snacks and real time captioning provided at both events.
Please email cct@uchicago.edu with requests for accommodations.
This set of events is sponsored by University of Chicago Student Disability Services, Disability Studies Study Group, Chicago Center for Teaching, a Provost's Office Inclusive Pedagogy Grant, and UIC Disability Cultural Center.
Date posted
Mar 3, 2020
Date updated
Mar 3, 2020