University of Michigan Initiative on Disability Studies Fall 2020 Speaker Series: Criptographies

In conjunction with Rackham 580: Introduction to Disability Studies, UMInDS is pleased to bring outstanding scholars, activists, and scholar-activists to our campus as we explore criptographies. A word-play on terms cryptography, the study of ciphers and secret codes, and to crip, a colloquialism that assembles knowledge around nonnormative bodyminds, criptographies suggests an exploration of de-mapped ecologies of neurodivergence and nonnormative embodiment.

Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe
Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law, and Justice
University of Illinois at Chicago

Liat Ben-Moshe (she/her) is the author of Decarcerating Disability (2020), which shows how abolition is not an unattainable goal, but rather a reality, and how it plays out in different arenas of incarceration-antipsychiatry, the field of intellectual disabilities, and the fight against the prison-industrial complex.

Registration is required for this Zoom webinar at
https://events.umich.edu/manage/event/78098/edit/occurrences

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