Disability Studies

UC Berkeley has a new endowment for its disability studies program thanks to a family of alums. The Haskell Wong Endowment for Disability Studies will be seeded with $900,000 to expand instruction and research. The endowment will ultimately provide tens of thousands of dollars for the program every year, inspiring

In her new book Disabled Ecologies, UC Berkeley professor Sunaura Taylor returns to a Tucson Superfund site to document how residents organized one of the earliest and most successful environmental justice movements in the country.

From article by Dan Vaccaro, UC Berkeley Library, 9/13/23 A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution Where: Doe Library’s Bernice Layne Brown Gallery and online  When: Sept. 13, through February 2024, with exceptions; the gallery is open the same hours as Doe Library. Check the hours before you go.   Cost: Free Related event: Film screening