This roundtable brings together public health practitioners, disability rights advocates, and researchers of trauma and debility to discuss various aspects of disability in Palestine.
Panelists:
Jasbir Puar, Visiting Professor, Pozen Family Center for Human Rights; Professor and Graduate Director, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University
Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Director, Conflict Medicine Program, Global Health Institute, American University of Beirut
Nadera Shaloub-Kevorkian, Chair in Global Law, Queen Mary University of London
Dina Kiwan, Professor in Comparative Education, University of Birmingham, UK
Shatha Abu Srour, Disability Rights Advocate, Palestine
Yasmin Snounu, PhD, Consultant: Project Manager, Violence Against Women Coordinating Committee Windsor-Essex
This event is co-sponsored by the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Global Studies, Disability Studies Workshop, and the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago.
ASL translation will be provided. If you have questions or wish to request accommodations to access the event, please contact Cliff.Chan@uchicago.edu
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