Updated Schedule of Spring DS brown bag talks

Mark your calendars and plan to join us! All events are held in MGH 024.

Save-the-dates for these 3 Spring 2019 UW Disability Studies Brown Bag Talks

The location for all talks is Mary Gates Hall 024 (the D Center), University of Washington Seattle. Feel free to bring your lunch.

Accessibility information:

The D Center is mobility aid accessible and a scent-free space. We will request CART captioning and ASL interpretation for all of these events.

Please contact Joanne with any questions! jwoiak@uw.edu

Visit the Disability Studies Program website for details and any updates: https://disabilitystudies.washington.edu/

Schedule:

Tuesday, April 30, 12-1pm: Sharan Brown, “Current Challenges for Disabled People Organizations (DPOs) in Cambodia: History and Politics of United Nations and Western International Aid”

Friday, May 10, 12-1pm: Anjulie Ganti and Clara Berridge, “Infusing Our Social Work General Curriculum with Disability Studies and Disability Justice Movement Principles”

Friday, May 24, 12-1pm: Ian Johnson, “Characterizing the Effects of Hostile Architecture on the Experiences of Disabled Older Adults Experiencing Houselessness”

[The talk originally planned for April 19th is cancelled, and will be rescheduled in Fall 2019.]

Abstracts and Bios:

Tuesday, April 30, 12-1pm, MGH 024

Title: Current Challenges for Disabled People Organizations (DPOs) in Cambodia: History and Politics of United Nations and Western International Aid

Abstract: Interviews were conducted in December 2018 with United Nations staff who recently completed a five-year project to implement the UNCRPD in Cambodia as well as DPO recipients of the project funding for legal advocacy. Results of the challenges and current barriers to implementation of the UNCRPD will be discussed in the context of the history and politics of international aid in Cambodia.

Presenter:

Sharan E. Brown, J.D., Ed.D.
Research Professor, College of Education
Associate Director, University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities

Friday, May 10, 12-1pm, MGH 024

Title: Infusing our general curriculum with disability studies and Disability Justice Movement principles

Abstract: For the past year, we have been collaborating with disability justice activists to enrich the School of Social Work’s MSW program curriculum with disability studies content. Our goals are to 1) host disability justice panels that all incoming MSW students attended as part of class time in a required course and 2) develop 30-60 minute, course-specific modules that will enable instructors to effectively deliver disability studies content in seven required courses of the MSW foundation year. We will share our progress, successes and challenges with this curriculum work.

Co-presenters:

Anjulie Ganti, MPH, MSW

Senior Lecturer, UW Department of Health Services, School of Public Health; Public Health-Global Health Major

Clara Berridge, MSW, PhD

Assistant Professor, UW School of Social Work

Friday, May 24, 12-1pm, MGH 024

Title: Characterizing the Effects of Hostile Architecture on the Experiences of Disabled Older Adults Experiencing Houselessness

Abstract: In 2018, 17.5% of Seattle’s 12,000 houseless residents were disabled and over 50 years of age. Disability is both a consequence of housing loss and a risk factor for becoming houseless. Compared to most U.S. cities, Seattle’s houseless population is more likely to live in public spaces. As the houselessness epidemic persists, governments increasingly use strategies to deter the use of public space by people experiencing houslessness, known as “hostile architecture.” This project explores the specific ramifications these interventions have on older and disabled people, as well as the ways older disabled people resist these interventions in creative negotiations of contested public space. This project offers tools for advocacy and direct practice with disabled houseless populations.