Webinar: Composing Kin: Teaching Neurodivergent History through Community-Engaged Art
Wednesday, March 18 at 3 PM
https://a2ru.org/event/composing-kin-teaching-neurodivergent-history-through-community-engaged-art/
As an a2ru member institution, UGA students, faculty, and staff are eligible for free registration.
Alexis Riley, Assistant Professor of Theatre & Dance at the University of Michigan, presents the first in an ongoing series of webinars on neurodiversity in the arts. Historical sites associated with neurodivergence are often painful, characterized by isolation and exclusion. From institutions to alternative schools, these locales—and the carceral histories they cite—are often obscured in our current landscape, transformed into luxury apartments, shopping districts, and city parks. This obfuscation presents neurodivergence as a contemporary phenomenon, one wholly detached from its broader historical context. How might the arts help us to render that context more perceptible, offering access to neurodivergent pasts while imagining neurodivergent futures?