Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life
January 22, 2025
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM America/Chicago
Event description
Join us for a conversation with Margaret Price about her new book, Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life (Duke University Press)!
In Crip Spacetime, Price intervenes in the competitive, productivity-focused realm of academia by sharing the everyday experiences of disabled academics. Drawing on more than three hundred interviews and survey responses, Price demonstrates that individual accommodations—the primary way universities address accessibility—actually impede access rather than enhance it. She argues that the pains and injustices encountered by academia’s disabled workers result in their living and working in realities different from nondisabled colleagues: a unique experience of space, time, and being that Price theorizes as “crip spacetime.” She explores how disability factors into the exclusionary practices found in universities, with multiply marginalized academics facing the greatest harms. Highlighting the knowledge that disabled academics already possess about how to achieve sustainable forms of access, Price boldly calls for the university to move away from individualized models of accommodation and toward a new system of collective accountability and care.
Margaret Price is a genderqueer femme and scholar of rhetoric, disability studies, and qualitative methods. Her book Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life (Duke University Press, 2024) won the 2024 Alison Piepmeier Book Prize from the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA). Her first book, Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life (University of Michigan Press, 2011), won the Outstanding Book Award from the Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC). Price is co-PI of the Transformative Access Project and received a 2020 Fulbright Research Award. She is an avid knitter and inline skater.
Crip Spacetime is available open access (free)!
Audience note: This event is open to everyone.
Covid safety information: UIC does not require masking, but we are still masking in our events as an accessibility measure for chronically ill / immunocompromised folks and those living interdependently with them. Please wear a mask if it is accessible for you! We’ll have extras on hand. People may be sipping/eating and then replacing their masks. Zoom is another Covid-cautious option.
Access information: CART (live captions) and ASL interpretation will be provided. The Institute for the Humanities is a physically accessible space on the first floor, equipped with two accessible, all gender restrooms. To create a low-fragrance environment, please refrain from wearing scents to DCC events. Please get in touch with any access requests or questions at dcc@uic.edu or 312-355-7050!
Getting to the Institute for the Humanities:
The Institute for the Humanities can be entered from the exterior of the Behavioral Sciences Building (BSB) using its dedicated door on Harrison Street, or it can be accessed through the interior of the building by passing through the Computer Lab BSB 125.
Hosted by UIC's Disability Cultural Center and the Department of Disability and Human Development
Co-sponsored by the UIC Institute for the Humanities
Date posted
Dec 12, 2024
Date updated
Dec 12, 2024