5th Annual Symposium for Disability and Accessibility at Yale, 2026

Logo: Annual Yale University Symposium on Disability and Accessibility

In(Visibility): The Creation of Narratives and their Legacies

April 6-11, 2026

How do we locate disability in our everyday lives?  Where do we know from and what narratives craft these understandings? How do our memories from the historical past effect how we interpret our present and craft our futures?

Over the past five years, the Symposium for Disability and Accessibility at Yale has strived to create dialogue around important conversations in disability communities while prioritizing access to all of our community members. Now, as we celebrate our 5th milestone year, we turn to trace disability lineages and the narratives that they have knowingly and unknowingly created.  

 

Announcing our Keynote, Jina B. Kim!

Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing

Jina B. Kim is a scholar, writer, and educator of feminist disability studies and queer-of-color critique. She lives and works in Western Massachusetts as an associate professor of English and the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Smith College. Her book, Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing, brings a disability lens to bear on women- and queer-of-color writing after major US welfare reform. This book aims to demonstrate the necessity of radical disability politics and aesthetics for navigating contemporary crises of care. 

Jina; A person with short, textured dark hair and round glasses smiles softly at the camera while sitting among autumn leaves and green foliage, wearing a rust-colored jacket and black top

Keynot Speaker, Jina B. Kim

Registration

Please visit the Schedule of Events to register for individual sessions. 

Recommendations and Accessibility

  • Attendees are strongly encouraged to wear a mask. Masks will also be provided at in-person sessions
  • Attendees are strongly encouraged to refrain from wearing perfume, aftershave, or other fragrances, as these may affect other attendees with fragrance sensitivities.
  • ASL interpreters and CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) services will be provided at all events.
  • Registration forms will have space for attendees to fill out any accessibility/accommodation needs.

Schedule of Events