Disability studies scholar and author Douglas Baynton will lecture on "Disability Imagery in Citizenship Debates: Slavery, Suffrage and Immigration Restriction" at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø on Tuesday, March 6.
The free event will begin at 7 p.m. in the University Memorial Center's Aspen Room.
Baynton, an assistant professor of history as well as speech pathology and audiology at the University of Iowa, will focus on disability as a significant factor in the three great citizenship debates of the 19th and early 20th centuries: slavery, women's suffrage and the restriction of immigration.
"Douglas Baynton's analysis of disability and citizenship is a major contribution to American history," said Jim Cohn, CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø disability specialist. "His multicultural perspective dramatizes how images of disability were, and continue to be, formulated into who is and who is not a recipient of privilege and personhood in the United States."
For more information, or accommodations, contact the Disability Services office at (303) 492-8671, e-mail DSInfo@Colorado.Edu or visit the Web site at .
Disability Services provides resources, advocacy, collaborative services, education and outreach within the university community through equal access, empowerment and support of and for individuals with disabilities.
Baynton's campus visit is sponsored by Disability Services, American Studies Program, Arts and Sciences Diversity Committee, Center for Humanities and the Arts, Department of History, Office of Diversity and Equity, Sewall Hall American Studies Program, Values and Social Policy Center, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Women's Resource Center, Women's Studies Program and Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences.