Disability & Access Initiative Upcoming Events
Interested in Collaborating with Practitioners and Scholars in the Humanities, Arts, Interpretive Social Sciences, and Health Sciences? The Health Humanities Lab, run by the Franklin Humanities Institute, is an initiative that bridges the humanities, Duke Health, and the Duke Global Health Institute. The FHI Health Humanities Lab takes an inventive, interdisciplinary approach to understanding the health of populations locally and worldwide through work grounded in histories, literatures, languages, cultures, arts, media, and critical theory. The lab involves undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and the community in interest-driven research projects and is interested in thinking about the “whole person” in Campus and Health contexts: the dynamic continuum along which the identities of learners, educators, patients, and health care providers are not mutually exclusive. Learn more at https://sites.fhi.duke.edu/healthhumanitieslab/ and subscribe the their newsletter at https://lists.duke.edu/sympa/subscribe/health-humanities-lab. Be sure to mark you calendar for the following upcoming events.
Disability Pride Week - March 23 - March 28
Disability Pride Week is an annual week-long event used to promote visibility and mainstream awareness of the positive pride felt by people with disabilities within their community. It marks a break from traditional concepts of disabilities as shameful conditions, which were often hidden from public spaces and mainstream awareness. Join us in a week full of celebration, activism and events. Follow Duke Disability Alliance on Facebook for more details on the events, and go to the HHL website to get access to the events list as well.
Diability Pride Student Expo - March 25 | 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. | The Landing in the Bryan Center
For Disability Pride Week, students have created a series of creative activism projects in collaboration with Duke Disability Alliance! How does our community handle disability access, classroom accommodations, mental healthcare, and sexual assault? How can we strive for a more accepting, inclusive, and trauma-informed culture? We will also showcase projects including artwork, research posters, children's books, and online disability activism. Dinner will be provided!
Accessibility Matters Day - March 26 | All Day Event
Did you know that often times, the accessible entrances around campus are not marked, not visible, or at the back of certain buildings? Join Duke Disability Alliance and the rest of campus and participate in DDA's annual Accessibility Matters Day as part of DDA's annual Disability Pride Week. Everyone is encouraged to take only accessible routes throughout the day (that means no stairs!), and share the barriers you encounter with #accessibilitymatters and tagging DDA on Facebook @DukeDisabilityAlliance. Are you up for the challenge? Sign the pledge here.
Creative Care is Not an Oxymoron - April 2 | 4:30-6 p.m. | Rubernstein Arts Cener (Room 224) at Duke University
What is the unique role of the arts in reimagining how we think about, experience, and deliver health and social services? Theatre Artist/Researcher and MacArthur Fellow Dr. Anne Basting shares stories of her longstanding transdisciplinary work at the intersections of art, dance/movement, theatre, music, visual culture, bioethics, gerontology, and neuroscience. In addition to discussing her 20-plus-year career as an artist-scholar whose TimeSlips project has occupied the forefront of art engagement and health, Basting will also offer a sneak peek of her forthcoming multi-year collaboration with Duke and in Durham centered on adults living alone with dementia and cognitive disabilities. Visit this link for more information about the event.
Disability & Access Initiative Lunch Meeting - April 2 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Health Humanities Lab in Trent Hall, Room 037A
Are you Duke faculty member interested in getting involved with the Disability & Access Initiative? Then attend this meeting! Through readings and discussions, participants with DAI work toward building disability studies content into their courses and developing a disability-conscious pedagogy. Food will be provided. RSVP with dietary restrictions and for a parking pass to carolina.robledo@duke.edu. Learn more about DAI at sites.duke.edu/disabilityatduke/disability-access-initiative/.