Disability Rights in Global Perspective

Different countries, different results

Award-winning interdisciplinary scholar and filmmaker Karen Nakamura will discuss the impact of global disability-rights movements during a lecture at Dickinson. The talk, “Disability Rights in Global Perspective,” will take place Wednesday, April 13, at 7 p.m. in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter (ATS) Auditorium.

Nakamura will examine how social movements focusing on the rights of people with disabilities have arisen in different countries, with varying results. She notes some of these movements have led to the enactment of civil-rights legislation and improvements to social services for people with disabilities, who are estimated to make up 15 percent of the world population.

Nakamura is the Haas Distinguished Chair of Disability Studies and professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on issues of physical and mental disability in Japan. She has published four books on disabled social movements and has conducted research that led to the creation of two films on the topic of schizophrenia and mental health in Japan. Her current projects deal with the intersections of disability and transsexuality and disability and technology.

This event is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by the Center for Global Study & Engagement and the departments of East Asian studies and women’s, gender & sexuality studies. It is also a part of the Clarke Forum’s spring 2016 semester theme, “Disability.”

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• Office of Global Study & Engagement
• Department of East Asian Studies
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Published April 12, 2016