Nothing About Us Without Us: Understanding the Disability Rights Movement

Описание: Approximately five hundred million persons throughout the world have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities. Join James I. Charlton, scholar, activist, and author of Nothing About Us Without Us, for a discussion about historical and contemporary disability oppression and empowerment, which builds upon interviews he conducted over a ten-year period with disability rights activists throughout the world.

This event is part of the 2024-25 Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Colloquium, “Circuitous Exchanges" and is co-sponsored by co-sponsored by the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center in White Plains; the Reiff Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution at Christopher Newport University; the Holocaust, Genocide & Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan University; the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at Western Washington University; the Wagner College Holocaust Center; the Cohen Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College; the Center for the Study of Genocide & Human Rights at Rutgers University; and the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University. For more information about the KHC, please visit https://khc.qcc.cuny.edu