Aimi Hamraie is assistant professor of Medicine, Health, and Society and American Studies, and director of the Mapping Access Project, at Vanderbilt University. Hamraie’s interdisciplinary scholarship bridges critical disability, race, and feminist studies, architectural history, and science and technology studies. Their publications include Building Access: Universal Design, Disability, and the Politics of Knowing-Making (forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press, 2017) and articles in Design and Culture, Disability Studies Quarterly, Foucault Studies, Hypatia: journal of feminist philosophy, philoSOPHIA, Age Culture Humanities, and The Politics of Place and Space: Exclusions, Resistance, Alternatives.
Public Lecture: “Access-Knowledge: Disability, Universal Design, and the Politics of Knowing and Making”
October 5 | 4-6 pm | 311 Denney
Graduate Student Workshop: “Crip Technoscience”
October 6 | 12:30-2 pm | 311 Denney
Sponsored by: Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Department of Geography, Department of History, Department of English, Department of Comparative Studies, Project Narrative, Knowlton School of Architecture, ADA Coordinator’s Office, Nisonger Center, Sexuality Studies, Disability Studies, and Disability Studies Graduate Student Association.
