Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Un/Accommodating Structures: On Disability and Higher Education

How is a neurodivergent person meant to embrace a “life of the mind”? How should disabled students respond when their reasonable accommodations function more as “reasonable exclusions”? How do rhetorics of mental health crises obscure broader questions concerning who is valued in academic space? How might accessibility-as-practice foster student interest in social justice and community involvement? This talk considers the ways in which critical approaches to access, participation, and disability can work in service of transforming educational environments.

Presentation Transcript and Slides (requires Cornell Net ID login)

Speaker

Dr. M. Remi Yergeau, Associate Professor, Digital Studies and English and Associate Director of the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan

M. Remi Yergeau is Associate Professor of Digital Studies and English and Associate Director of the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan. Their book, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, was awarded the 2017 MLA First Book Prize, the 2019 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Book Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship, and the 2019 Rhetoric Society of America Book Award. Active in the neurodiversity movement, they have previously served on the boards of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) and the Autism National Committee (AutCom).

A virtual event hosted by Cornell University.

• Keynote access will be automatically provided to graduate student and postdoc registrants for the institute
• Faculty and Staff can also register for the keynote