Have you subscribed to Contra*?!? Contra* is a podcast about disability, design justice, and the lifeworld created by Aimi Hamraie and produced by the contributors to the Critical Design Lab, a multi-institution project. It's been an exciting year watching this project grow in my role as contributor to CDL and the podcast, and with our … Continue reading Contra* podcast
Author: Cassandra Hartblay
Disability Anthropology at the University of Toronto
In 2019, a group of graduate students in the department of anthropology at the University of Toronto founded the Disability Anthropology Working Group. Housed in the department's Ethnography Lab, the group extends and expands on conversations begun in my disability anthropology seminar the previous fall. The working group meets weekly, alternating between a public reading … Continue reading Disability Anthropology at the University of Toronto
Disability, Art & Ethnography in St Petersburg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZF1DW4Oyc8 Not long ago, I was in Russia, to take part in an event at European University at Saint Petersburg, DIS.ART – disability, ethnography & the arts on October 10, 2018. The event featured four creative works by a cohort of medical ethnographers working on disability at European University in Saint Petersburg. The evening started … Continue reading Disability, Art & Ethnography in St Petersburg
Critical Design Lab blog launches!
This week marks the launch of a new blog from Aimi Hamraie's Critical Design Lab at Vanderbilt University, an intentional space for transformative research practice at the intersection of critical and interrogative design, intersectional feminist design theory, and crip technoscience. Over the past year, I've been a long-distance collaborator with the lab, working together to … Continue reading Critical Design Lab blog launches!
Toronto, Hello!
This summer brings the exciting news of a big move. As I pack up my things at Yale and house hunt in Toronto, I'm very glad to say that as of June 1, I am joining the faculty at the University of Toronto Scarborough. In my new role as Assistant Professor with a cross-appointment between … Continue reading Toronto, Hello!
I WAS NEVER ALONE at Yale
I'm very glad that a performance of my ethnographic play will be presented this March as part of the program of the 2018 Soyuz Symposium for Postsocialist Cultural Studies, this year hosted by the Department of Anthropology and the European Studies Council at Yale. Friday March 2nd at 7:30pm, with a talk back session at … Continue reading I WAS NEVER ALONE at Yale
Жизнь – игра, or, all the world’s a stage in ethnographic theater
I was touched this week to reread an article published online by a local news source in Petrozavodsk, Russia where I conduct my fieldwork. My dear friend and collaborator, Vladimir Rudak, a musician, filmmaker, writer, and disability activist from Petrozavodsk shared his impressions of the United States with reporter Asya Kosheleva. I was fortunate to … Continue reading Жизнь – игра, or, all the world’s a stage in ethnographic theater
2017-2018 at Yale
I'm pleased to announce that I will spend the 2017-2018 academic year as a postdoctoral associate and lecturer for Russian Studies in the European Studies Council at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. I'll also be cross-appointed in the Department of Anthropology. I will be teaching … Continue reading 2017-2018 at Yale
Ethnography & Design on the AnthroPod PodCast
I am glad to be featured this week on the AnthroPod podcast, produced by the journal Cultural Anthropology. The piece is the first of three in a series on ethnography and design, featuring two other dear colleagues and my collaborators the past two years in the UC Collaboratory for Ethnographic Design, Lilly Irani and Keith … Continue reading Ethnography & Design on the AnthroPod PodCast
New courses at UC San Diego
I am looking forward to teaching several new courses at UC San Diego in the coming months. This winter, I am teaching a course originally designed by Dr. Tom Humphries. The Problem of Voice takes the trope of "voice" as an important mode of understanding representation, recognition, and multivocality in contemporary cultural perspectives. The course, … Continue reading New courses at UC San Diego
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