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Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach co-sponsors Spring Teaching Conference with Jay Dolmage

Moments and Modalities of Access: Composing Disability

In composition’s history as a remedial space, or as a sorting gate, from Harvard in the 1870s to CUNY in the 1970s, composition grew and contracted in ways that formed boundaries around bodies. These two major “foundational moments” in composition’s history were profoundly about diversity. They were also profoundly shaped by disability — disability helped to reshape the modalities of teaching in our field. It makes sense that this reshaping would continue in an era of multimodal and mediated composition. In this presentation, Dolmage considers whether disability is truly reshaping multimodal composition, or whether it is simply being accommodated out of this design process.

Apr 4, 2019 at 2:00 PM – 3:20 PM
Kilian Room, 500 Hall of Languages

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Review of BBI Senior Fellow Larry Logue’s Book: Fighting in the Shadows by Common Reader.

April 2, 2019

Larry Logue

Who knew? Who knew that the designer of the first Confederate national flag was a deaf immigrant from Prussia? The Roar of the War For Those Who Could Not Hear It: An account of the impact of the Civil War on deaf culture. Read Full Review

Larry M. Logue is a senior fellow at the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University. He is co-author, with Peter Blanck, of Race, Ethnicity, and Disability: Veterans and Benefits in Post-Civil War America (Cambridge University Press, 2010), and Heavy Laden: Union Veterans, Psychological Illness, and Suicide (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

Review of BBI Senior Fellow Larry Logue & BBI’s chairman Peter Blanck’s Book: Heavy Laden: Union Veterans, Psychological Illness, and Suicide by Strategy Page

April 2, 2019

Heavy LadenHeavy Laden, a volume in the “Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series”, is an important read for students of veterans affairs, throwing fresh light on the problems that still affect those who served.Read Full Review

In this work, the authors devoted to the advancement of persons with disabilities, examine the effects of the war on a sampling of Union veterans, both black and white, with particular attention to the suicides now recognized as a frequent result of PTSD.

BBI Chairman Peter Blanck to speak at Washington D.C. Symposium on “Disability Rights: Past, Present, and Future”

Peter Blanck, University Professor and Chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI), will speak at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) Law Review Symposium: “Disability Rights: Past, Present, and Future.” The Symposium is presented by the UDC David A. Clark School of Law in Washington, D.C. People with disabilities, disability rights advocates, practitioners, law professors, law students, legislators, and academics, students, and community members will explore disability law and policy in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the passage of the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA). Continue Reading

BBI (Dis)courses Series Continues March 27, 2019, with Premiere of You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born

(Dis)courses: Interdisciplinary Disability Dialogues—a new multimedia series presented by the Burton Blatt Institute’s (BBI) Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach, in collaboration with the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA)—continues on March 27, 2019, at 7 p.m. in Watson Theater with the Syracuse premiere of the film You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born. Continue Reading

Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach co-hosts 6th “Cripping” the Comic Con at Syracuse University

March 7, 2019

Established in 2013, “Cripping” the Comic Con (“CripCon”) is an interdisciplinary, international symposium that provides participants (including students, faculty, staff, and community members) with the opportunity to engage in a broad array of reflective discussions about perceptions of disability that exist implicitly and explicitly within mainstream popular cultures, particularly comic books, graphic novels, and manga.

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Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach co-sponsors Spring Teaching Conference with Jay Dolmage

April 4, 2019

Moments and Modalities of Access: Composing Disability

In this collaborative workshop led by Jay Dolmage, participants will address ableist attitudes, policies, and practices built into higher education. The group will interrogate the minimal and temporary means we have been given to address inequities, and the cost such an approach has for disabled students and faculty.

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Burton Blatt Institute’s Multimedia (Dis)courses Series Launches March 7

February 21, 2019

On March 7, the Burton Blatt Institute’s (BBI) Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach, in collaboration with the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), will present the first event in a new series that showcases disability literature, media and the arts, focusing on contemporary critical reflection, teaching and research. The series is called (Dis)courses: Interdisciplinary Disability Dialogues. Continue Reading

Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach in BBI Co-sponsors Special Screening of Documentary End of Life

February 20, 2019

Special Screening of Documentary End of Life

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End of Life, a documentary film that was nominated for the 2018 European Film Awards, will be shown Sunday, March 3, at 2 p.m. in Room NAB 4414B of Upstate Medical University’s Weiskotten Hall, 766 Irving Avenue, Syracuse. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion and reception with the filmmakers, Paweł Wojtasik and John Bruce. The panel will include members of the Syracuse-area hospice, medical and spiritual communities. The event is free and open to the public. The filmmakers can be available for interviews upon request.

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