HTLab: Accessible Teaching

Friday, April 9, 2021

10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

On Webex

In university settings, accessibility is often treated as a matter of case-by-case accommodations for individual students. But access can also be a collective practice, a cultural and aesthetic phenomenon, and a basis for transformative advocacy.

In this interactive Humanities Teaching Lab (HTLab), Dr. Aimi Hamraie will help you think through how to build accessible and justice-centered pedagogy and curriculum, with focus on collective and participatory approaches to learning. The workshop will review the theoretical and practical foundations of accessible teaching. Going beyond models of individual accommodation, the workshop will draw on frameworks from critical, feminist, and disability pedagogies, as well as examples of project-based classroom and campus learning experiences, including accessibility mapping, podcasting, and parties as scholarly, pedagogical, and administrative praxis.

You will learn how to:

Registration is required to attend this HTLab. Please register by Monday, April 5. The Webex link will be sent two days prior to the workshop.

Questions? Contact Ally Kocerhan, Inclusion Imperative Associate: alko1@umbc.edu. If you are unable to attend, but would like to access a recording of the workshop, please contact Ally Kocerhan. 

Aimi Hamraie is Associate Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society and American Studies, and the director of the Critical Design Lab, at Vanderbilt University. They are author of Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) and host of the Contra*, a podcast about disability, design justice, and the lifeworld.