Syracuse Sun

Graduate students and educators enrolled in the School of Education course, Significant Disabilities: Shifts in Paradigms and Practices, will provide a showcase of their work on May 8 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), located on the 6th floor of Bird Library. The course was taught by Dr. Julia M. White, a 2023-2024 SCRC Faculty Fellow.

Co-organized by the SCRC and the School of Education, this event will debut a digital exhibition, "From Institutionalization to Inclusion: Disability Activism in the Syracuse University Special Collections." It was created by members of the course who have been critically engaging with primary source documents and artifacts in SCRC’s collections to explore disability as a cultural construction by examining historical developments in special and inclusive education, along with the rise (and fall) of institutions and asylums for individuals with intellectual disabilities.

The showcase and reception are free and open to the public. "If you require accommodations, please email Max Wagh at mlwagh@syr.edu by May 1."