2023 Including Disability Global Summit
"The preeminent international jamboree for disabled people"
– Dr. Paul Jaeger, Co-Chair and Co-Founder
Thursday, April 27
All sessions are scheduled in the Eastern Time Zone (EST); will be presented in English; will have live captions and American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters, and registrants will have access to recorded presentations.
Session 1: Living Your Best Life
9:00 AM – 9:25 AM
“Always Bring Your Dice” Re-imagining Training with Disability Focused D&D
Alexander Nicholls, Leanna Scheitrowsky
9:35 AM – 10:00 AM
POD Access: Empowerment Through Podcasting
Cheryl Green, Thomas Reid
10:10 AM – 10:35 AM
Dateability: Making Love Accessible
Jacqueline Child, Alexa Child
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
Outdoors For All
Enock Glidden
Session 2: Poetic Workshop
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
At the Wormholes of Madness: Poetics and Science Fiction as Liberation
Steven T. Licardi
Session 3: Moving Toward an Inclusive Future
1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
Introducing the Maryland Initiative for Digital Accessibility(MIDA)
Jonathan Lazar, Paul T. Jaeger, Ana Palla
Final Thoughts and Closing Keynote
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Embracing the Ecstatic: Disability in the Afrofuture
D’Arcee Charington Neal
(Introduction by Shalom Rosenberg; Closing remarks by Christopher Pérez, Program Director, The Graduate School’s Office of Graduate Diversity and Inclusion (OGDI), University of Maryland)
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