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12:00 pm - Disability Studies Research Workshop: Natalia Pamuła, “‘Crisis Ordinariness’ and the Slow Transformation of 1989: Disability and Gender in Poland”

214 Parker - South Campus

Pamuła’s talk will focus on the Polish disability memoirs published in 1991 in the volume Cierpieniem pisane: Pamiętniki kobiet niepełnosprawnych (Written through Suffering: Disabled Women’s Memoirs). Written through Suffering consists of twenty-one short memoirs submitted as a response to a memoir competition in 1990. Published two years after the first democratic elections, which took place […]

12:15 pm - Joining Forces Research Colloquium: Leslie Reagan, “Veterans and Agent Orange – An International Story”

214 Parker - South Campus

  Please join Joining Forces-UB for the next Joining Forces Research Colloquium. Leslie Reagin, Ph.D., Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will present: Veterans and Agent Orange - An International Story  Professor Reagan will discuss her current research on the history of Agent Orange, one of several herbicides used in then American War […]

11:30 am - Disability Studies Research Workshop: Joining Forces Research Colloquium – Lee K. Pennington, “Red, White, and Bruised: Japanese Disabled Veterans in the Wake of World War II”

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Please join us for the next Joining Forces Research Colloquium co-sponsored by the UB Center for Disability Studies and the Humanities Institute Disability Studies Research Workshop on Friday, November 13th. The vision of Joining Forces-UB is to promote understanding of the experiences and needs of service members, veterans, and military family members through research, education, […]