“Exploring the Politics of Time, Disability, and Collective Accountability”

A Witness in Residence Initiative Featuring

Margaret Price, Ph.D., The Ohio State University

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Margaret Price, Ph.D. will present “Exploring the Politics of Time, Disability, and Collective Accountability,” as part of a collaboration between the The Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau Witness in Residence Initiative and the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies. This student-facing interactive talk, which is open to the public, will draw on Price’s recently-published open-source book Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life (Duke UP, 2024). 

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, she argues for the value of access as a relational process built over time. Price also draws on a survey and interview study conducted with more than 300 disabled faculty and staff members. Her talk will focus 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 will close with a discussion of accessible gathering in order to point the way toward more sustainable and restorative ways of moving together in academic spacetimes.

Margaret Price, Ph.D. is an 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 and lead PI of the Transformative Access Project. A white, genderqueer femme, Margaret’s research focuses on analyzing institutional cultures and starting dialogues about care and accountability. During Spring 2022, she was in residence at the University of Gothenberg, Sweden on a Fulbright Grant to study universal design and collective access. Margaret’s open-source book Crip Spacetime was published by Duke University Press in Spring 2024. Read more at her website, http://margaretprice.wordpress.com.

This event is sponsored by the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies in collaboration with The Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau Witness in Residence Initiative—and by The Dean’s Office of the College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences. Supported by Student Affairs for Health and Wellbeing, Women’s and Gender Studies, Health and Medical Humanities, and the Department of English.

The Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau Witness in Residence Initiative in the College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences seeks to encourage conversations about issues pertaining to human rights and issues of social relevance  in the United States and globally. Thanks to generous donors from the community, the initiative provides study abroad scholarships which fund students’ related study-abroad experiences. Students who received the Aliaga-Buchenau Study Abroad Scholarship to study abroad during Spring Break or the Summer Semester have studied in such places as Bolivia, Costa Rica, Brazil, Cuba and Panama. Learn More About the Witness in Residence Initiative

Event Facts, Parking and Accessibility

Tuesday, October 8

1 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.

Storrs Building, Room 110
9115 Mary Alexander Rd,Charlotte, NC 28262

Open to the public at no charge, please register.
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