2022 UnConference Program

Disability Studies and Action Collaborative UnConference Program Overview

Day 1 Workshops

• Check-in & refreshments: AW ground floor & sky bridge (top floor)
  • 9:45 am – 10:15 am
• Welcome: AW 403
  • 10:30 am – 10:50 am
• Workshop Session A – Discovery: Multiple Rooms (AW top floor)
  • 11:00 am – 12:15 pm
• Lunch: AW sky bridge & AW 408
  • 12:15pm – 1:30 pm
• Workshop Session B – Problems & Opportunities: Multiple Rooms (AW top floor)
  • 1:30pm – 2:45 pm
• Workshop Session C – Project Development: Multiple Rooms (AW top floor)
  • 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
• Day 1 Closing Session – Sharing Out: AW 403
  • 4:15pm – 5:00 pm

Day 2 Presentations

• Morning refreshments: AW sky bridge (top floor)
  • 9:45 am – 10:15 am
• Morning Panel and Presentation Sessions
  • 10:15 am – 11:15 am
    • Session A1: AW 403
      Arts & Activism: Disability, Juice, and Identity Intersections
    • Session A2: AW 405
      Disability in Literary Studies
  • 11:30 am – 12:05 pm
    • Session B1: AW 403
      Cases for Universal Design for Teaching and Learning
    • Session B2: AW 406
      Cases for Inclusion Study
    • Session B3: AW 410
      Workshop with JZY – Reclamation: Intersections of Caretaking & Stewardship
• Lunch: AW sky bridge & AW 408
  • 12:05 pm – 1:30 pm
• Afternoon Panel and Presentation Sessions
  • 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
    • Session C1: AW 302
      Disability in Media and Social Media
    • Session C2: AW 303
      Neurodiversity, Leadership, Peers, and Student Experience – Roundtable
  • 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
    • Session D1: AW 302
      Lessons from COVID and the Working Word
    • Session D2: AW 303
      Special dialog session with Courage Bacchus and Siyámotsiya
    • Session D3: AW 305
      Disability in History and the Archives
• Keynote Presentation, Dr. Pau Abustan: AW 304
  • 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
    Comfy, cozy, and liberatory community based learning: A queer, crip, and decolonial Pilipinx led disability justice praxis
    • This presentation is open to the public! Attend in-person in AW 304, or via Zoom.

Maps

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UnConference Day 2 Presentation Details

Session A: 10:15 – 11:15 am

A.1: Arts & Activism: Disability Justice and Identity Intersections

This panel explores the role artistic expression, storytelling, and identity play in activism, community building, and decolonization. 

A.2: Disability in Literary Studies

This panel discusses how research and personal narratives can help us understand disability inclusion. 

Session B: 11:30 – 12:30 pm

B.1 Cases for Universal Design for Teaching and Learning

This panel explores the possibilities of teaching that is responsive to disability and inclusivity. 

B.2 Cases for Inclusion

This panel will share case materials developed by students with disabilities that can be used to support professional learning by faculty and staff related to inclusion at WWU.

B.3 Workshop: Reclamation: Intersections of Caretaking & Stewardship

This workshop explores topics of intersectionality of identity politics to universal dynamics, diagnosis and connection to culture, and grounds of unspoken language communications. 

Session C: 1:30 – 2:30 pm

C.1 Disability in Media and Social Media

This panel explores how disability, mental health, and self-harm are represented throughout contemporary cultural media, including social media. 

C.2 Disability, Neurodiversity, Leadership, Peers, and Student Experience Roundtable

This panel focuses on the experiences of disabled students at Western, both in terms of how they advocate for accommodations and safety and in terms of building disability communities on campus. 

Session D: 2:45 – 3:45 pm

D.1 Lessons from Covid and the Working World

This panel focuses on two interrelated topics. One thread examines the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives and careers of disabled people. The other focuses on disability in the context of workplaces and careers. 

D.2 Special Dialog Session

This discussion explores personal experiences of facing marginalization, language appropriation/space violation by taking over toward colonization behaviour in life and our arts heal our scars.

D.3 Disability in History and the Archives

This panel examines the role of disability in history and atrocity. It will also discuss the role of the historian in creating and sharing disability history through work in the archives.

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