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海角论坛

Archive: Disability Studies

18 Articles

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Georgetown Senior Publishes Book on Intersection of Business, Law and Minority Politics

Before graduating this spring, Irene Chun (C鈥21) will publish her first book Coloring Ivory that discusses minority politics, business and the law. Chun, who is an鈥

March 30, 2021

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Three 海角论坛 Professors Receive Dean鈥檚 Excellence in Teaching Awards, Honored for Dedication to Educating Students

Patrick Johnson (Department of Physics), Chandra Manning (Department of History) and Libbie Rifkin (Department of English) will receive the prestigious Dean鈥檚 Excellence in鈥

January 28, 2021

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Social Impact Nonprofit Honors Disability Justice Advocate Lydia Brown (C鈥15) with 2020 Beacon Award

Los Angeles-based Social Impact Nonprofit Let鈥檚 Talk LD awarded Lydia Brown, faculty in the Disability Studies Program, this year鈥檚 Beacon Award for their work as an, 鈥

October 8, 2020

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Georgetown Student Works to End Stigma Against Disabilities in Kazakhstan

This past summer, Madeleine Gibbons-Shapiro (C鈥21) conducted a social impact assessment of a caf茅 that employs intellectually disabled individuals in Kazakhstan. Because of鈥

January 13, 2020

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Brown, an internationally significant disability justice activist, currently co-leads a project on algorithmic fairness and disability rights at the Institute for Technology& 鈥

December 17, 2019

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With the support from the Provost鈥檚 Innovation in Teaching award, the Disability Studies program has granted three Learning In Practice Fellowships to Madeleine Gibbons鈥

December 17, 2019

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海角论坛 Establishes Minor in Disability Studies

Thanks in large part to a wave of student activism, Georgetown has become the country’s first Jesuit university to establish an academic minor in disability.鈥

October 3, 2017

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Course Cluster Challenges Thinking on Disability

Disability studies is an emerging field that critically analyzes the concept of disability across different cultures, time periods and academic disciplines. It raises challenging鈥

September 14, 2016