The Sawyer Seminar Presents - Liberating Disability: Stories of Our Past, Present, and Future | Keynote by Dr. Linda Steele

Mellon Sawyer Seminar Potentialities of Justice: Toward Collective Reparative Futures

Keynote by Dr. Linda Steele: Disability and Reparations: From Haunting to Hope

How do we reckon with and repair the injustices of institutionalizing disabled people? Haunted house attractions, exclusive housing estates, and abandoned buildings are some of the common afterlives of disability institutions … justice and reparations are not. However, there is increasing momentum at the international human rights and local community levels for truth-telling and reparations towards disabled people who have experienced institutionalization. In her keynote, Associate Professor Steele introduces human rights and philosophical reasons why reparation is necessary and discusses some ways in which governments and communities are already engaged in these practices.