October is Disability Awareness Month and we have put together some exciting programming to celebrate this part of our human diversity. Disability Awareness Month is sponsored by the Diversity Awareness Committee. We invite you to attend these events!
All events are free to the campus. Individuals with disabilities requiring accomodations should contact Bruce Henderson in the department of Speech Communication at henderso@ithaca.edu. We ask that requests for accomodations be made as soon as possible.
Thursday October 7, 7-10 p.m., Textor 102
“'Hurry Tomorrow': A Film Screening and Debate on Mental Health/Mental Illness”
Through the generosity of the film’s producer, we will screen the 35th Anniversary Release of “Hurry Tomorrow,” Richard Cohen’s groundbreaking documentary filmed in a locked psychiatric ward in Los Angeles. The screening will be followed by a demonstration debate and discussion, performed and facilitated by the IC Foresncis Association, on this year’s national debate topic, which focuses on government support of mental health issues.
Thursday October 21
“Universal Design” 12:10-1:00 p.m., Williams 221
Pat Walsh, Residence Director, East Tower, will do a lunchtime presentation/workshop on Universal Design.
“Scars: A Performance” 8-10, p.m., Textor 103
Dr. Jim Ferris, Ability Center of Greater Toledo Endowed Chair of Disability Studies, University of Toledo, an award-winning poet and performer, will present his brand-new one man performance, exploring the various scars, physical and otherwise, we bear and claim as parts of our identity. Dr. Ferris’ most recent volume of poetry, The Hospital Poems, won the MSR Book Award, selected by prominent American poet Edward Hirsch.
Monday October 25, 7-9 p.m., Textor 102
“Meditations on a Bullet”
Dr. Noam Ostrander, Assistant Professor in the MSW Program in Social Work at DePaul University, will present his research on constructions of identity, masculinity, race, sexuality, and self among former gang members, primarily African American and Latino, on Chicago’s West Side, who live with violently acquired spinal cord injuries. Dr. Ostrander’s scholarship pulls together complicated issues of intersections of identity, the roles of race and masculinity in shaping or obstructing disability identity, and the powerful life stories of these men. Dr. Ostrander has co-edited a collection of essays on disability and performance, as well as publishing in major journals in the social sciences.
Thursday October 28, 12:10-1:00, Cayuga Lake Room
“Understanding Disability and Being An Inclusive Leader”
Pat Walsh will present the second of his Disability Awareness offerings, a session that will provide thoughtful and important insights into and suggestions for action to anyone involved in leadership, campus or otherwise, about how to include the contributions of people with disabilities in groups.
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20100929161010854