[Sehefac] Fwd: Decarcerating Disability: An Upcoming Event

[Dana Simmons]

>From Carla Mazzio:


Please join us for the inaugural event of UCR's "On Violence: Experimental
Study Sequence" and the Health Humanities and Disability Justice (HHDJ)
Initiative
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/177OwB0dj9xiv6pO6dwzaOUm2LI-oEVer/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107509772935754601643&rtpof=true&sd=true>
:

*Liat Ben-Moshe, On Decarcerating Disability*
*A Talk & Conversation with Dylan Rodríguez*
*Wednesday, October 11, 2023 11:30 am-1:00 pm (pst)Virtual format: click
here to join!  <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89978260761#success>No
registration needed*

*For more information, please click here
<https://events.ucr.edu/event/DecarceratingDisability>*

>

*Liat Ben-Moshe* is an Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice
at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is the author of
*Decarcerating Disability:
Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition*
<https://www.liatbenmoshe.com/decarcerating-disability> (University of
Minnesota Press 2020) and co-editor (with Allison Carey and Chris Chapman)
of *Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United
States and Canada*
<https://www.liatbenmoshe.com/disability-incarcerated-1> (Palgrave
2014). She holds a PhD in Sociology with concentrations in Women and Gender
Studies and Disability Studies from Syracuse University. Her areas of
interest are: Incarceration and decarceration/ Critical prison
studies/Prison abolition; Disability Studies/Mad Studies; Social theory
(Feminist, Queer, Critical Race) and Activism.

*Dylan Rodríguez,* Professor in the Department of Black Study and Media and
Cultural Studies, and Co-Director of the Center for Society and Ideas, is
the author of *White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logic of
Racial Genocide* (Fordham University Press, 2021), *Forced Passages:
Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime* (University of
Minnesota Press, 2006) and *Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy,
Genocide, and the Filipino Condition* (University of Minnesota Press,
2009). He is co-editor of the field-shaping anthology *Critical Ethnic
Studies: A Reader* (Duke University Press, 2016) and has written in a wide
cross-section of scholarly and popular venues, including *Social Text*, *Black
Agenda Report*, *Harvard Law Review*, *American Quarterly*, *Radical
History Review, Colorlines, The Abolitionist, *and *Scholar & Feminist
Online*.  Dylan is a founding member of the Critical Ethnic Studies
Association and Critical Resistance, a national carceral abolitionist
organization. He is part of the Abolition Collective and Scholars for
Social Justice, and continuously works in and alongside various radical
social movements and activist collectives.

*Sponsors: UCR's **Health Humanities and Disability Justice (HHDJ)
Initiative*
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/177OwB0dj9xiv6pO6dwzaOUm2LI-oEVer/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107509772935754601643&rtpof=true&sd=true>*
&
the **Decolonizing Humanism(?) Initiative*
<https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/decolonizinghumanism/>* at the Center for
Ideas and Society.*


Carla Mazzio (she, her, hers)
Associate Professor, Department of English
C0-Director, Health Humanities and Disability Justice (HHDJ) Initiative
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/177OwB0dj9xiv6pO6dwzaOUm2LI-oEVer/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107509772935754601643&rtpof=true&sd=true>
Co-Director, Medical and Health Humanities Minor
<https://english.ucr.edu/mhhs>
University of California, Riverside
https://ucriverside.academia.edu/CarlaMazzio

*"We at UCR would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our*
*responsibility to the original and current caretakers of this land, water,*
*and air: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of*
*their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. Today this*
*meeting place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world,*
*including UCR faculty, students, and staff, and we are grateful to have
the*
*opportunity to live and work on these homelands*."



-- 
Dana Simmons
Acting Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Society, Environment
and Health Equity
University of California, Riverside
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