We at the WWU Institute for Critical Disability Studies are excited for now our 5th Annual Disability Studies & Action Collaborative UnConference happening the weekend of Saturday and Sunday, October 18 and 19, 2025, during Disability Action Month at WWU. While registration for the event has closed, we will be kicking off the event with a Pre-UnConference Keynote presentation on Friday, October 17 that will be free and open to all. This event is titled, Disability in Place: Unmaking as Practice presented by Dr. Kathleen Brian, and is hosted by the WWU Institute for Critical Disability Studies, WWU Disability Outreach Center, and Disability Access Center.
Join us at 11:00 am on Friday, October 17 in-person in Academic Instructional West (AW) room 302 of the WWU Bellingham Campus or virtually on Zoom. After the presentation at 12:00 pm, there will be a light lunch reception sponsored by the WWU Disability Outreach Center.
Disability in Place: Unmaking as Practice
From 2021 to early 2025, the National Parks Service and the National Council on Public History fostered the creation of an interdisciplinary anthology of place-based disability history.
Then, on the verge of its completion, the politics of our moment unmade it.
Join editor Dr. Kathleen Brian to discuss the life and lives of Disability and Place, the first accessibly written, peer reviewed work to address historical intersections of disability and place, forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press.
Event Details
- Date: Friday, October 17, 2025
- Location: AW 302 (Academic Instructional West, room 302) & Zoom
- Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm for presentation.
- Lunch reception follows, from 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Help us get a better head count for this event:
- RSVP is not required, but requested for those attending this event in person
- Register to attend virtually on Zoom
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