Media and disability
Explore the topic of media and disability in it's multiple configurations, accounting for social, material, theoretical, aesthetical, experiential, historical, political and institutional perspectives.
Explore the topic of media and disability in it's multiple configurations, accounting for social, material, theoretical, aesthetical, experiential, historical, political and institutional perspectives.
The next session in the ongoing series of online debates "Disability And The Digital. Conversations Across Sociology, Cultural Studies and Disability Studies".
The fourth network meeting is dedicated to the spaces of experience that emerge from the interplay of practices, senses and media (cf. Alper 2018; Hammer 2015; Schillmeier 2010). The interest lies on the aesthetic, artistic and philosophical potentials of dis-/ability in particular, departing from an exploration of blindness in both historic and contemporary practices.
In celebration of Bess Williamson’s Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design, which was awarded the 2019/20 Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Book Prize, leading disability history scholars, artists, and designers will discuss studies of access and design history.
Der Workshop widmet sich den Schnittstellen von DisAbility, History und Geschlechtergeschichte und nimmt dabei eine intersektionale Perspektive auf Behinderung und Geschlecht ein.
As part of the fourth network meeting Media and the Senses of the network Dis-/Abilities and Digital Media, two lectures by Gili Hammer and Karin Harrasser will take place on Friday 13 May 2022 in Vienna on site and via Zoom (7:30pm-and 9:30pm).
The global phenomenon of disability/integrated dance provides case studies to the questions raised at the outset, bringing forward the role of the body in cultural and societal representations of disability.
Session as part of the ongoing series "Disability and the Digital. Conversations Across Sociology, Cultural Studies and Disability Studies".
Part of the series "Disability and the Digital. Conversations Across Sociology, Cultural Studies and Disability Studies"
The Disability Studies in Eastern Europe – Reconfigurations research platform invites to their first seminar. The aim is to create an inspiring, creative, and safe environment in which scholars, Ph.D. candidates and students will benefit from each other’s experience and research.