Connections
We run a variety of groups and events to connect social science researchers on intellectual disability, learn about each other’s work, and develop the field together. To hear about all our events, sign up to our mailing list.
Disability and Mind: a group of researchers from master’s students to professors who gather every month to discuss important works in the field.
Disability and Development quarterly webinars for academics and practitioners on disability inclusion in international development, hosted with the Dutch Coalition on Disability and Development
Upcoming Events
Date | Type | Content |
|---|---|---|
30/06/2026 | IDSRL | Intellectual Disability in the Global South |
Past Events
Date | Type | Content |
|---|---|---|
26/06/2026 | Disability and Mind | Yergeau, M. (2018). Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness. Duke University Press |
12/06/2026 | Disability and Development | Rachel Chomba: Digital Inclusion in Zambian schools |
29/05/2026 | Disability and Mind | Puar, J. K. (2017). The right to maim: Debility, capacity, disability. Duke University Press. |
24/04/2026 | Disability and Mind | Robinson, K. F., Carew, M. T., & Groce, N. E. (Eds.). (2024). Inaccessible access: Rethinking disability inclusion in academic knowledge creation. |
27/03/2026 | Disability and Mind | Rutherford, D. (2025). Beautiful mystery: Living in a wordless world. Duke University Press. |
27/02/2026 | Disability and Mind | Solomon, O. (2010). Sense and the senses: Anthropology and the study of autism. Annual Review of Anthropology, 39(1), 241–259.
Nichter, M. (2008). Coming to our senses: Appreciating the sensorial in medical anthropology. Transcultural Psychiatry. |
23/02/2026 | Disability and Development | Wim van Brackel: Stigma in Disability Inclusion and Development |
02/02/2026 | Disability and Mind | McKearney, P. (2024). At the edges of liberal care: Disability and ethics between dependence and freedom. Current Anthropology, 65(6), 939–964. |
27/11/2025 | Disability and Development | Patrick McKearney: Anthropological Perspectives on Stigma in Intellectual Disability Research |
15/09/2025 | Disability and Development | Launching a Transdisciplinary Collaboration: Research on Disability Inclusion in Development |
02/08/2025 | Disability and Mind | Goodley, D. (2001). “Learning difficulties,” the social model of disability and impairment: Challenging epistemologies. Disability & Society, 16(2), 207–231.
Shakespeare, T. (2006). The social model of disability. In The disability studies reader (2nd ed., pp. 197–204). |
04/05/2025 | Disability and Mind | Schalk, S. (2017). Critical disability studies as methodology. Lateral, 6(1).
Mitra, B. (2021). It’s not autism. It’s your parenting: An autoethnographic exploration of the relationships between professionals and parents of an autistic child in the UK. Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture, 3(1), 1–16. |
17/04/2025 | Disability and Mind | Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, H., Chown, N., & Stenning, A. (2020). Neurodiversity studies: A new critical paradigm. In Neurodiversity studies: A new critical paradigm.
Antze, P. (2010). On the pragmatics of empathy in the neurodiversity movement. In M. Lambek (Ed.), Ordinary ethics: Anthropology, language, and action (pp. 310–327). |
22/03/2025 | Disability and Mind | Zoanni, T. (2018). The possibilities of failure: Personhood and cognitive disability in urban Uganda. The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 36(1), 61–79. |
08/03/2025 | Disability and Mind | Jenkins, R. (1998). Culture, classification, and (in)competence. In R. Jenkins (Ed.), Questions of competence: Culture, classification and intellectual disability, 1–24. |