Exploring the Politics of Time, Disability, and Collective Accountability in Academe
Exploring the Politics of Time, Disability, and Collective Accountability in Academe
February 7, 2025 @ 1:00pm-2:30pm Eastern Time
Sponsored by the University of Lethbridge; the Office of the Provost, Office of the Vice Provost EDI, Faculty of Arts & Science, and the Department of Sociology in collaboration with the Canadian Sociological Association's Sociology of Disability Research Cluster.
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Drawing upon her award-winning book Mad at School, and the newly released Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life, Dr. Margaret Price argues for a turn toward collective accountability in order to make academe more accessible for all marginalized persons. Rejecting individual accommodation as a means to access, Dr. Price draws upon established work in Black Feminist Studies and disability studies to argue for the value of collectivity and gathering. Her presentation draws upon a survey and interview study conducted with more than 300 disabled faculty and staff members. In this talk, Dr. Price focuses particularly on the politics of time, presenting her concept of the “accommodations loop” to explain why individual accommodations are not simply inefficient, but systemically harmful. She closes with a discussion of accountability and gathering in order to point the way toward more sustainable and restorative ways of moving together in academic spacetimes.
Guest Speaker: Dr. Margaret Price
Margaret Price is Associate Professor of English (Rhetoric & Composition) at The Ohio State University, where she also serves as Director of the Disability Studies Program, as well as co-founder of the Transformative Access Project. She is the author of the award-winning books CripSpacetime (Duke University Press, 2024; open-source) and Mad at School (University of Michigan Press, 2011). During Spring 2022, she was in residence at the University of Gothenberg, Sweden on a Fulbright Grant to study universal design and collective access.
Read more at her website http://margaretprice.wordpress.com
Moderators: Dr. Suzanne Lenon and Dr. Athena Elafros from the University of Lethbridge