Dr. Jasbir Puar (GRSJ)The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series p resents
Wednesday\, March 27\, 12:00-1:00pm
Buchanan Tower 225 / Zoom
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ABSTRACT
In her multi-award winning book\, Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia\, Y-Dang Troeung traced a crip-Cambodian refugee archive to reveal how r efugee narratives were “saturated by tropes of pain\, suffering\, loss\, il lness\, speechlessness\, silence\, muteness\, deafness\, blindness\, prosth esis\, and many other modalities of impairment.” In her posthumously publis hed family memoir\, Landbridge [life in fragments]\, Troeung retur ned to the crossings of debility and refugee personhood through her own fam ily history\, telling stories about her parents and two brothers who lived through the Cambodian genocide\, about her own childhood in refugee camps a nd rural Ontario\, and eventually about her young son’s illness and her own diagnosis with a terminal disease. In these and many other works\, Troeung explored Cambodian refugee narratives of aphasia\, madness\, silencing\, s ickness\, forgetting\, and asylum\, to reveal how war\, genocide\, and bomb ing continue to result in forms of death and debilitation that remain illeg ible to contemporary discourses of disability\, accommodation\, and “care.”
This roundtable will explore the significant yet understated impact of Y-Dang Troeung’s work within crip theory and critical disability studies \, and will feature scholars whom she deeply admired. How does Troeung allo w us to re-read narratives of refugee trauma\, gratitude\, and success\, wi thin a crip theoretical lens? How do her expressions of refugee knowledge g rasp ways of living within death and debilitation\, and offer new ways of k nowing\, being\, and surviving in a system of genocidal violence and its af terlife?
ABOUT THE PAN EL
Dr. Jasbir Puar (GRSJ)
Jasbir K. Puar is the author of the award-winning books The Right to Maim: Debility\, Capacity\, Disabilit y (2017)\, which has been translated into Spanish and Portuguese\, and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007)\, av ailable in French and Spanish\, re-issued as an expanded version for its 10 th anniversary (2017)\, and forthcoming in Greek and Portuguese. Her articl es have been published in journals such as Social Text and Sou th Atlantic Quarterly\, mainstream venues such as Al-Jazeera and The Guardian\, and translated into more than 15 languages.
Puar is also co-author of exhibitions for the Sharjah Architecture Trien nial (2019) and the Sharjah Art Biennial (2023). She is the recipient of th e 2019 Kessler Award from the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies (CLAGS) at CUNY\, which recognizes lifetime achievement in and impact on queer resear ch and organizing.
Dr. Michelle Stack (Educational Studies & Academic Director\, Learning E
xchange)
Michelle Stack\, Ph.D.\, is the Academic Director of the Learning Exchange for the Universit y of British Columbia and an associate professor in the Department of Educa tional Studies. Her central research interest concerns how people\, knowled ge and institutions are categorized and the influence of these categorizati ons on our ability to grapple with inequity\, particularly ableism and raci sm. Her current work focuses on cooperative colleges and universities as an alternative to the higher education as a consumer good.
Dr. Anamaria Richards on (Community-based Pediatrician\, Medicine)
Dr. Anamaria Richard son is a community-based pediatrician who has been welcomed by the autism c ommunity — she specialize in severe autism\, especially those with intellec tual impairment and self injury. Previously\, she worked in complex care an d in biochemical diseases — this has resulted in her interest in medical co mplexity as well. Her background includes being a teacher\, so she understa nds the challenges experienced by kids navigating both systems — health and education. Recently she has also become a qualified specialist to do autis m assessments. Her current interests and research is around advancing healt h outcomes and advocating for increased collaboration to support families a nd kids with severe autism. Finally\, she also works within many Indigenous communities — both rural and urban — and is currently working on a project to create an Indigenous focused healthy living web based portal.
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