Health Humanities and Disability Justice (HHDJ) Lab

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News & Events

Welcome to the HHDJ News & Events Page  

Congratulations to the new 2024-2025 Health Humanities and Disability Justice Graduate Fellows, and all continuing Fellows from the inaugural cohort in 2023-2024.  To read new and continuing HHDJ Fellow bios, please click here.

 

We will be updating this regularly. Please feel free to be in touch with any or all of us (carlam@ucr.edu, fusonw@ucr.edu, and mking@ucr.edu) about potential co-sponsorships, collaborations, or for related events you'd like us to help publicize, email carlam@ucr.edu. 
 

  • Fall-Winter HHDJ Faculty Affiliate Exhibition (Oct 5, 2024-Mar 2, 2025): Scientia Sexualis, co-curated by Jennifer Doyle (Professor of English, UCR), at the Institute of Contemporary Art, centering "research-driven interventions into raced and gendered assumptions that structure scientific disciplines governing our sense of the sexual body." For more, click here.  

  • Fall Quarter Neurohumanities Reading Group (ongoing, hybrid format):  organized by HHDJ Fellow Jovana Isevski (English Department), hybrid format, for more information, contact Jovana at jovana.isevski@email.ucr.edu

  • Friday, Nov 1, 2024, noon-2:00 PM (hybrid):  HHDJ Graduate Fellows Lunch & Orientation (hybrid), for info contact Carla Mazzio (carlam@ucr.edu)

  • Friday, Nov 8, 8:00 AM (in person): Environmental Justice Rally (click here for details)

  • Monday, Nov 11, 9:00 AM:  People's Tribunal at UCSF (livestream): "As the only UC campus wholly focused on health, healthcare, and health professions education, UCSF has a particular ethical responsibility to uphold the sacred healthcare worker oath to “Do No Harm” and to protect humanity. In this time of genocide and ongoing Nakba, UCSF administrative leaders have failed to carry out UCSF’s stated mission to “advanc[e] health worldwide” and to honor the Hippocratic mandate that forms the cornerstone of the health professions.' Hatts off to HHDJ member for sending in ths post:  Click here for livestream 11/11 at 9AM.

  • NOTE: TWO WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 13 EVENING EVENTS IN CLOSE PHYSICAL PROXIMITY IN LA

  • Wed, Nov 13th: 6:00 PM (in person, location: Track 16 Gallery in LA: Conversation between noted medical historian WENDY KLINE and legendary artist NAO BUSTAMANTE (event in celebration of  Bustamante's current exhibit, BLOOM, which proposes a bold redesign of the vaginal spectrum, and the publication of Kline's 2024 Hidden History of the Pelvis):   For more information and to reserve a space, click here. 

  • Wed, Nov 13, 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, MICHELLE BROWDER, the artist/activist behind the Mothers of Gynecology Monument in Montgomery AL, will be speaking at the Institute for Contemporary Art in LA (hats off to HHDJ community member Jennifer Doyle for these two posts):  For more information click here!  

  • Thurs, Nov 21 (in person, INTS 1128, 5:30 refreshments; 6:00 screening), Film screening and discussion of Boycott  (2021) , hats off to the Center for Ideas and Society and the Graduate Students for a Free Palestine for co-hosting the event, with discussion to follow. Events page is here. 

  • Friday, Nov 22, 3:50-5:20 PM, SSC Multipurpose Room 3, 1st Floor (hybrid and bilingual):  "Disability Justice and Public Health," panel of the 3rd Decolonial Praxis Conference,  featuring and co-organized by HHDJ Fellow Fernando Márquez Duarte (Political Science).  The full conference takes place on November 22nd and 23rd.   Please click here to register in advance. 

  • Friday, Nov 22, 4:00-6:00 PM (in person, INTS 1111):  Bilingual Creative Writing Workshop 2.0, organized by HHDJ Fellow Paula Cucurella (Hispanic Studies Department), Iván Aguirre (Hispanic Studies Department, UCR), and Elena Cardona (Soka University of America). The workshop on this particular day "will explore creative expression through somatic exercises, providing a unique opportunity to deepen your writing skills. To attend, and to learn more about the workshop, please click on the form linked here.  

  • Friday, Dec 6, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM (virtual format, rescheduled from) : "The Neuron Cannot Know Itself: Brainhood, Buddhism, and the Body at the Margin," a virtual talk by Matthew King, Professor, Religious Studies, UCR . This paper thinks with Tibetan critics like Lobsang Gyatso's (Blo bzang rgya mtsho, 1928-1997) to chart the epistemic and institutional limits of brainhood as an anthropological figure of modernity, and as a theoretical resource to diversity and globalize disciplinary insights in feminist science studies, critical disability studies, and the health humanities generally.  Please click here to register in advance. 

 
 
 

HHDJ Sponsored or Co-Sponsored Events (October 11 2023-October 7 2024)

  • Oct. 11, 2023: Liat Ben-Moshe and Dylan Rodríguez, "Decarcerating Disability: A Talk and Conversation, click here to register ." Sponsored by HHDJ (co-sponsored UCR CIS)
  • Oct. 16, 2023: Rosalia Lerner, "Dehumanization, Entropy, and Death in Panteha Abareshi's Video Performances, click here to register," part of the Trans-Corporeal Entanglements Project (co-sponsored HHDJ)
  • Nov. 1, 2023: Farah Godrej and Dana Simmons, "Hunger, Meditation, Incarceration." Click here to attend this virtual event, sponsored by HHDJ (co-sponsored UCR CIS).
  • Nov. 13, 2023: Christine Greiner, "From Bare Life to Crip Bodies," part of the Trans-Corporeal Entanglements Project. Click here to attend this virtual event (co-sponsored HHDJ)
  • Nov. 30, 2023: "Linguistic Justice & Health Equity: Transforming Society by Using Community Translation and Graphic Medicine," click here for virtual event  Organized by 2023-2024 HHDJ Fellow Graduate Martina Visconti, co-sponsored HHDJ.  
  • Nov. 29, 2023: Dean Spade, "Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis,"  virtual event, click here to register.Sponsored by UCR CIS (co-sponsored HHDJ)
  • Nov 15, 2023: 12:00-2:00 PM: Abolishing California (Prison) Slavery (virtual, to join click here)   Roundtable with Jeronimo Cuauhtemoc Aguilar (Legal Services For Prisoners With Children); Bobbie Butts (All Of Us Or None); Fidel Chagolla (Starting Over, All Of Us Or None); Shaun Leflore (All Of Us Or None); Laine May (Starting Over); Henry Ortiz (Legal Services For Prisoners With Children). Co-sponsored by the HHDJ Initiative. 
  • Jan 19, 2024: 3:10-4:40 PM: "Public Health and Disability,"  session of the UCR Decolonial Praxis Conference (hybrid format, in person and on zoom, 1/19/24-1/20/24), co-organized by HHDJ Graduate Fellow Fernando David Márquez Duarte. To register, click here.  Sponsored by the HHDJ Initiative.  
  • Feburary 14, 2024: 10:00 AM -11:30 AM, hybrid roundtable,  "S(crip)ts:  Anti-Ableist Pedagogy Roundtable," featuring Dr. Fuson Wang, Amy Juarez, and Dr. Crystal Baik, organized by HHDJ Graduate Fellows Loren Barbour and Allie Reichert. Location: HMNSS 2212 and on zoom: click here to join. Sponsored by the HHDJ Initiative. 
  • Feb 7, 2024: 8 AM to 9 AM, virtual event, click here to register, "In Conversation: Bayo Akomolafe and meital yaniv." Sponsored by Memory and Resistance Laboratory, co-sponsored by the HHDJ Initiative.
  • Feb 16, 2024 (related event),  9:00AM-5:00PM (Virtual) UCR Graduate Student Virtual "Care and Repair" Conference, featuring many members of the HHDJ community, current HHDJ Fellows, and Dylan Rodriguez, Carla Mazzio, and Fuson Wang as panel chairs, click here to register:

  • March 1, 2024: 10AM-11:30AM (Hybrid): William McGrath (NYU), "Among Gods and Germs, Nyen Fever in Tibet."  Location INTN 1109 and on zoom click here to join.    McGrath is the Robert H. N. Ho Family  Foundation Assistant Professor of Buddhist  Studies at NYU.  Event sponsored by the HHDJ Initiative and UCR's Department for the Study of Religion.  

  • March 20, 2024: noon-1:30 PM (virtual): Robin Katz, "Archives, Ableism, and the Work Ahead." Learn about archives from the perspective of a trained archivist, and reflect together on the ways archives can both reinforce and subvert ableism. Presentation and discussion led by Robin M. Katz, UCR Arts & Humanities Teaching Library and an expert on primary source literacy. Sponsored by the HHDJ Initiative. To register, click here.

  • April 2, 2024: 10:30 AM-11:30AM (in person) Dr. Rachel Showstack, "Linguistic Justice and Health Equity: A Multi-Pronged Approach to Improving Healthcare Language Access for Latine and Indigenous Communities in the U.S.," Location UCR INTS 1111. For more information, please click here. Organized by HHDJ Fellow Martina Visconti (Hispanic Studies), co-sponsored by the HHDJ Initiative.
  • May 14th, 2024: 3-5 PM (Hybrid): "What's ‘Genocide’ in 2024? A Roundtable with Former U.S. Political Prisoner Jalil Muntaqim," in HMNSS 1500 or join virtual streaming at this link.   Discussants including author, activist, and longtime KPFK (Los Angeles) radio host Thandi Chimurenga, All of Us or None organizer Shaun Leflore, and UCR Professor and HHDJ Community Advisory Board Member Dylan Rodríguez, with introductory remarks by Dr. Arón Montenegro, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow. 
  • May 16,  2024: 10am (virtual): Dr. Dalia Magaña  (UC Merced), "Cancer is a Journey, not a Fight in Rural Latinas’ Health Narratives".  Click here register here.   organized by HHDJ Graduate Fellow Marina Visconti.

  • June 5th, 2024 10:30 AM (virtual), "Poetry, Disability Studies, and African American and Arab American Literature: A Conversation with Dr. Therí A. Pickens" organized and hosted by Courtney R. Baker.   To register, click here!  Co-sponsored  by the CHASS Dean's Office, the Center for Ideas and Society, and the Health Humanities and Health Humanities and Disability Justice Initiative.

  • April 4-June 7, 2024: Wednesdays (every other) 2:30-2:00 PM, Neuropolitics Reading Group, for information and scheduling form, click here. Organized by HHDJ Fellow Jovana Isevski (English).  

  • April 6-June 8, 2024: Fridays (every other) 4-6PM.  Bilingual Creative Writing Workshop,  for information, click here Organized by HHDJ Fellow Paula Cucurella (Hispanic Studies Department), Iván Aguirre (Hispanic Studies Department, UCR), and Elena Cardona (Soka University of America), co-sponsored by the HHDJ Initiative.  

Coming soon : a recording of Robin Katz's virtual talk,  "Archives, Ableism, and the Work Ahead":   Click here for slideshow PDF, with works cited at the end.   

HHJD COMMUNITY MEMBER/PARTNER/RELATED EVENTS (2023-2024)

  • Nov. 13, 2023: The SDRC and LGBTRC present the "Ability Ball." This will take place in person from 12:30 PM-3 PM at HUB 355. Click here for more information.
  •  Nov. 17-18, 2023:  "Canary Knowledge: Chronic Fatigue, Chemical Sensitivities and the Limits of Medicine," part of UCLA's "Oral Histories of Environmental Illness." Click here for information and registration for this hybrid conference. First Annual "Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice" Conference organized by UC Partners at UCLA and UCSC, Helen Deutsch, Rachel Lee, and Megan Moodle
  • Nov. 17, 2023: The SDRC invites you to submit your work to the "Disability Art Expo." Students, staff, and faculty can use this form for submissions. The exhibition will take place from 3 PM-4:30 PM at the Student Services Building, Tartan & Tweed. Click here for more information.
  • February 2 and 3, 2024: virtual conference (with Dylan Rodriguez), "How We Heal: Delving Into Health, Medicine and Incarceration" (UCR School of Medicine, to register click here).
  •  February 8,  2024from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in HUB 302, Cultivating Mental Wellness: Supporting the Student Experiencesponsored by The Mental Health Allies  featuring a panel discussion (and free lunch for all attendees) focused on how students can take a holistic approach to mental wellness. Be sure to RSVP. 
  • March 1 and 2, 2024:  9:00AM - 5:00PM (Hybrid) :  "Body Matters!: Disability in English Literature to 1800."  This year's conference will feature keynotes from Dr. Rachael King (UCSB), Dr. Bradley Irish (Arizona State University), and poet Jos Charles. For information and registration, click here. 
  • February 12, 2024:  9:00-noon professional development "Disability Ally Workshop," sponsored by UCR's SRDC ( space limited): click here to register.  This program seeks to facilitate awareness, understanding, and competency of disability through connecting faculty, staff, and students with resources, knowledge, and relationships of disability as diversity. Participants in this program will gain knowledge about what it means to truly be an ally for students with disabilities. Topics covered include: Disability Law, Academic Accommodations, Disability Etiquette, Hidden Disabilities, Disability Demographics, and a Student Panel.
  • May 10 and 11, 2024: "Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice" UCI Partner Event:  "Care as the First Student Learning Objective:  Breaking the Genre of the Higher Education Classroom," with an opening Keynote, "Unwellness and Care in the University," by Dr. Mimi Khúc, and presentations by UCR's Traise Yamamoto (English) and Emma Stapley (English), to be held at the University of California, Irvine, Humanities Instructional Building 135:  full schedule and information linked here:
  • Friday,  May 3, 12-1 PM PST (virtual): UCSC HHDJ Partner Event:  Megan Moodie (Anthropology, USCS)  in conversation with author Jennifer Lunden, author of American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life, from 12-1 PST on Friday, May 3rd. This event is virtual, free, and open to the public,  so register now by clicking here! Also, please spread the word!
  • 2024-2025 EVENTS:
  • Tuesday, Oct 8, 2024, 6PM-8PM (hybrid format): Celebrating 100 Years of the Deaflympics: Preserving Institutional Independence, for more information about the event and how to register, please click here.