Book Talk: Decarcerating Disability

Monday, April 12, 2021 | 7:00 PM EST | Virtual

This event is presented by the Georgetown University Disability Studies Program, Gender⁺ Justice Initiative, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Prisons and Justice Initiative, African American Studies Department, Medical Humanities Initiative, and Human Rights Institute.

Join us in welcoming Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law, and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago for a discussion of her recently published book, Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (Minnesota, 2020). Dr. Ben-Moshe is also the co-editor (with Allison Carey and Chris Chapman) of Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada (Palgrave 2014). She is an activist/scholar who has worked and published on such topics as deinstitutionalization and incarceration; prison abolition; disability, anti-capitalism and queerness; race, disability/madness and empire; inclusive pedagogy and disability in Israel/Palestine. 

Video of event available upon request: email genderjustice@georgetown.edu. ASL interpreted /CART captioned.