DDGC Mutual Aid Network: 2024 Day of Community and Care
Join Us!
The DDGC Mutual Aid Network invites people within German Studies and across arts and humanities to join us for a day of learning and community building. This virtual-only event is FREE and will include a workshop by Dr. Mimi Khúc!
Schedule
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Virtual, via Zoom and in Mountain Time
10:00 – 10:10am
Welcome and Introduction
10:10 – 10:25am
DDGC Mutual Aid Network
10:25 – 11:35am
DDGC Coops
11:45am – 12:30pm
Workshop by Morgan L. Cacic (she/her): “Social Justice & Literature: Intersections of Disability and Community Care in the Classroom”
12:30 – 1:00pm
Break
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Workshop by Dr. Mimi Khúc (she/her): “What Hurts? A Workshop Diagnosing Our Collective Unwellness and Building Collective Care”
2:10 – 2:55pm
Community Discussion
2:55 – 3:00pm
Closing
Morgan L Cacic is a disabled academic and children's book author. She has taught German & English literacy and literature in a variety of capacities in the greater-Madison (WI) area over the past ten years and has an MS in Education: Teaching & Learning, with current WI teaching licenses in Alternative Education and German Language. Since joining the PhD program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2018, she has completed an MA in German Literature and welcomed two children, one of whom lives with a life-threatening disability. She is currently working to finish her Ph.D., with research interests in the intersections of disability justice, German Literature, and cultivating communities of care in the higher education classroom. She is the current Editorial Assistant to the academic journal Monatshefte and is actively involved in disability initiatives on the UW-Madison campus and in its surrounding communities.
Mimi Khúc, PhD, is a writer, scholar, and teacher of things unwell. She is the creator of the acclaimed mental health projects Open in Emergency and the Asian American Tarot, and the author of dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss, a deep dive into the depths of Asian American unwellness at the intersections of ableism, model minoritization, and the university, and an exploration of new approaches to building collective care. Her book dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss (Duke University Press, March 2024) revolutionizes how we understand mental health. It is a creative-critical book exploring mental health through a pedagogy of unwellness: the recognition that we are all differentially unwell. We are all unwell in different ways at different times in relation to differentially disabling and enabling structures. And this means we need and deserve differential care at all times.
Please register HERE by April 1, 2024.
Questions and/or ADA requests can be sent to Maggie (Maggie.Rosenau[at]colorado.edu) and Nichole (nmneuman[at]iu.edu).
