Disability Studies and Action Collaborative

Disability Culture, Scholarship, and Community

Program 2023 UnConference

Program 2023 UnConference

Day One — Workshop Schedule

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

Day Two Program — Presentation Sessions and Workshops

  • Morning refreshments: AW sky bridge (top floor)
    • 9:30 am – 10:00 am
  • Morning Panel and Presentation Sessions
    • 10:00 am – 11:15 am
      • Session A1: AW 406
        Experiencing Disability and Deafness through Arts and Culture
      • Session A2: AW 410
        Empowering Local Disabled Communities
    • 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
      • Session B1: AW 406
        Disability Studies Research
      • Session B2: AW 410
        Workshop: Design Clinic
  • Lunch: AW sky bridge & AW 408
    • 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
  • Afternoon Panel and Presentation Sessions
    • 1:30 pm – 2:45 pm
      • Session C1: AW 406
        Community Building, Pride, and Allyship
      • Session C2: AW 410
        Systems of Oppression and Systems of Empowerment in Education
    • 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
      • Session D1: AW 406
    • Workshop: Reclamation; Intersections of Caretaking & Stewardship
      • Session D2: AW 410
      • Roundtable: Disability and Student Experience
    • 4:15 – 5:00 pm
      • Session E1: AW 406
        Intersections of Identity and Action
      • Session E2: AW 410
        Workshop: Disabled Experience through Letter Writing

Session A1: AW 405 Experiencing Disability and Deafness through Arts and Culture

This panel focuses on artistic production, including poetry, visual arts, and performance. Panelist will explore how artistic work allows Deaf and disabled people to express important insights and how art can serve an important function within Deaf and disabled communities.

Session A2: AW 403 Empowering Local Disabled Communities

This panel explores practices for building communities that are accessible and welcoming to Deaf and disabled communities in Bellingham and the surrounding region.

 

11:30 am – 12:30 pm 

Session B1: AW 405 Disability Studies Research 

This panel features research projects currently in process. It will explore how disability studies concepts can lead to productive research projects, as well as the challenges and possibilities of various research methodologies. 

Session B2: AW 403 Workshop: Design Clinic 

This workshop will pick up where the day 1 working groups left off, inviting participants to pitch ideas for larger development and implementation in the future. It will draw on the “design clinic” model developed by the Center for Community Learning at WWU.

 

1:30 – 2:45 pm

Session C1: AW 405 Community Building, Pride, and Allyship 

This panel explores the ways we can build accessible communities that value the unique knowledge of Deaf and disabled people. It will investigate topics including disability pride, allyship, and specific workplace, institutional, or academic contexts.

Session C2: AW 403 Systems of Oppression and Systems of Empowerment in Education

This panel focuses on issues of disability within educational settings, both K-12 and higher education. It will address the negative aspects of educational systems and also the positive possibilities of supportive practices including counseling, tutoring, and disability-conscious teaching. 

 

3:00 – 4:00 pm 

Session D1: AW 405 Workshop: Reclamation; Intersections of Caretaking & Stewardship 

Participants will be invited to explore their inter-entity connections through sensory mapping and narrating. Art supplies will be provided, participants encouraged to bring their media to the space for assurance. 

Session D2: AW 403 Roundtable: Disability and Student Experience

 

4:15 – 5:00 pm

Session E1: AW 405 Intersections of Identity and Action

This panel explores the ways personal identity and cultural identity can inspire action and community building.

Session E2: AW 403 Workshop: Disabled Experience through Letter Writing