February 12, 2021

Registration required - Please join the UW Disability Studies Program for a virtual lecture by Nirmala Erevelles! Thursday, February 18, 2021, 3:00-4:30 PT.

Title: “Scenes of Subjection”: Carceral Logics and Disability Labor at the...Read more

January 26, 2021

Winter 2021 marks the formal approval and start of our Graduate Certificate program! Please contact us if you may be interested!

The UW Disability Studies Program sees its role as providing a community for scholars from across campus at the UW to come together to engage in...Read more

December 22, 2020

Ishira Parikh has won a Mary Gates Research Scholar award to support her work in promoting disability inclusion in science education.

Ishira is a Disability Studies major who has spent the past two years developing an interactive, activity-based K-12 synthetic biology curriculum. The...Read more

December 18, 2020

We are pleased to announce this upcoming event with guest speaker Sona Kazemi! This event is sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities

Sona Kazemi

Disabling Relations: Injured Bodyminds & Active Witnessing

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July 11, 2020

Job opportunity for students interested in Disability and d/Deaf Allyship - apply by June 23rd

Seeking Temporary Student Worker Interested in Disability and d/Deaf Allyship Job Category

Temporary Student Worker (hourly)

Send...Read more

June 15, 2020

The UW Disability Studies Program was delighted to announce the 2020 Dennis Lang and Harlan Hahn awardees at our graduation event. Please read below to learn more about the students, faculty, and staff receiving these awards and the important work in which they are engaged.

Dennis...Read more

June 06, 2020

The DS Program congratulates two of our graduating Disability Studies Minors, Rebecca Andrews and Eden Chapman, for winning these awards from the GWSS Department!

The Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies is happy to announce that Rebecca Andrews (Major: LSJ) and...Read more

May 13, 2020

"Don't Exploit Us: Technology and the Deaf Community" - registration required

Join us for a conversation discussing the ethics of technology and the Deaf community! We will go over topics like signing gloves, research ethics, and some positive technology trends for Deaf and Hard of...Read more

February 22, 2020

Applications for this year's Harlan Hahn Research Funds in Disability Studies are due March 30, 2020 by 11:59 pm. UW students, staff, and faculty are eligible to apply.

The call for proposals with guidelines can be found on...Read more

February 18, 2020

Join us for this Simpson Center sponsored event! "Claiming Disability Revisited: Critical Territorial Boundaries with Examples from Communication Impairment," by Dr. Devva Kasnitz

Time: Thursday, Feb. 27, 4:00-6:00pm

Location: Paul Allen...Read more

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