The Disability Studies Working Group, with the support of the History of Science and Medicine, American Studies, the Whitney Humanities Center, Public Humanities, the McDougal Center, the Office of Graduate Student Development and Diversity, and the Trudeau Foundation, presents:
25 Years of the Americans with Disabilities Act
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act? What motivated its creation? What are its major achievements? What work is left to do?
A conversation with
Lennard Davis (Department of English, University of Illinois at Chicago), professor and author of Enabling Acts: The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights (Beacon Press, 2015)
and
Michelle Duprey (Department of Services for Persons with Disabilities, City of New Haven), attorney and recent recipient of the Maria Colon Sanchez Award for Community Activism
Moderated by Rachel Adams (Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University), professor and author of Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery
When: Friday, September 25 @ 4:30 PM
NEW LOCATION: LORIA CENTER (190 York Street), Room 250
Refreshments will be served.
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Please RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/ada25yale or email caroline.lieffers@yale.edu