The event is sponsored by American Studies, the Office of Disability Resources, and a grant from the Elon College Fund for Excellence in the Arts and Sciences and will feature Elon archivist and librarian Libby Coyner, among other scholars and artists.
What does disability justice look like, at Elon and beyond? How can we make it happen?
Scholars and artists will focus on these questions during a roundtable discussion titled, “Disability: Activism, Equity, Art,” on Thursday, Oct. 27, at 5 p.m. in McKinnon Hall, Moseley Center 128D addressing disability activism and equity.
Audience members will leave with clearer ideas about how they can help advance the rights of disabled people, both on campus and in the broader community.
Roundtable participants include Ann Millett-Gallant, of UNC Greensboro, an artist and leader in the field of disability studies in art history who has written about her experiences with congenital physical disability and traumatic brain injury; Santiago Solis, of East Stroudsburg University, an inclusive excellence administrator who advocates for disability rights on campuses and who has published on his own experiences with a learning disability and chronic fatigue syndrome in the university; and Libby Coyner, an archivist and librarian at Elon who specializes in collecting zines that advocate for disability justice. Professor of Art History Kirstin Ringelberg will moderate the discussion.
The roundtable will include opportunities to ask questions and a display of disability justice-related items from Elon’s archival collection.
The event is sponsored by American Studies, the Office of Disability Resources, and a grant from the Elon College Fund for Excellence in the Arts and Sciences.