Current News & Events

The ASUW Student Disability Commission presents: “Disability Pride Week” Come celebrate disability culture and pride! Join us for the following events:

Disability Pride Week

The Dennis Lang Award is a merit-based monetary award (up to $500) for undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Washington who demonstrate promise in the field of Disability Studies. To apply, students must submit an application by May 7. Applications should be submitted online at https://catalyst.uw.edu/collectit/dropbox/sgoering/21657 . Announcement of the award winner(s) will be made by June 1. (Questions? Contact Sara Goering – sgoering@u.washington.edu)

Spring 2012 Disability Studies brownbag discussions: Emerson Sekins and Ann Luetzow

Winter 2012 Disability Studies brownbag discussions: Elizabeth Lockwood, “Deaf Community Activism: Lessons Learned from Uruguay,” Thur. Feb. 9, 12-1:15 pm, Savery 408.

Disability Studies will present two brownbag discussions to complete this quarter's activities. These events are free and open to the public: Friday, November 18, 12-1:15 p.m.; Friday, December 9, 11:30 a.m. -12:45 p.m. (Savery 408)

Harlan Hahn Award Winners 2011

The Disability Studies Program is pleased to announce the following award winners:

Monica Olsson, Erica Sekins, Anu Taranath, Ronnie Thibault, Joanne Woiak, Anna Zogas

Please join us for the Disability Studies Program Year-End Celebration!  Celebrate our community and the accomplishments of students, faculty and staff over the last year, including our graduating Individualized Studies Majors, Disability Studies Minors, and affiliate graduate and professional students.   
Date:  Monday, June 6th
Time: 4-6 PM
Place: Odegaard 220

Students, faculty and staff from all three University of Washington campuses are invited to submit a proposal for one of the two types of awards available.  The number and amount of the awards will depend on the quality and quantity of applications up to $4,000 per award.  It is anticipated that the awards will range between $500 – 4,000; the specific amount awarded will be dependent on the individual proposals. 

PUBLIC LECTURE: "Voices from the Washington Archives: Eugenics and Forced Sterilization in State Institutions." Tues. Mar. 15, 6:00-7:30pm, Odegaard 220 Series Web Site Series Web Site "http://uwdisability.wordpress.com/"

BROWN BAG: "What Every Historian Should Know about Disability History (and What They Lose by Ignoring the Field)." Mon. Feb. 28, 12-1pm, Smith 203E

PUBLIC LECTURE: "Blind Like Me: John Howard Griffin, Disability, and the Fluidity of Identity in Modern America." Tues. Mar. 1. 6-7:30pm, Odegaard 220 Series Web Site "http://uwdisability.wordpress.com/"

Resisting Shame, Making Our Bodies Home
Thursday January 27, 2011
2:30-4:30p.m.
University of Washington
Parrington Hall 309

Yearning Towards Carrie Buck
Friday January 28, 2011
6:00-8:00p.m.
University of Washington
Odegaard Library 220

See the following

Disability expert Sue Kroeger to visit, speak Oct.25, 26 Nationally recognized disability expert and scholar Sue Kroeger will visit the UW Oct. 25 and 26 to advise the University on best practices for addressing disability.

An article in University Week by Nancy Wick highlights Jurg Koch's Integrated Dance Summer Intensive. "Twenty-two dancers converged on the UW Aug. 9-14, five of them in wheelchairs....the aim was to share processes whereby dance can be made more accessible to those with disabilities.

Megan Morris, a fourth year Ph.D. student in Rehabilitation Medicine, and Monica Olsson, a senior undergraduate student, double majoring in Women Studies and Cinema Studies, with a minor in Disability Studies are the 2010 Dennis Lang Award Winners!