{"id":1244,"date":"2013-04-12T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depaulwrd.wordpress.com\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2017-11-06T18:42:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T18:42:15","slug":"melanie-yergeau-presents-disability-hactivism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/melanie-yergeau-presents-disability-hactivism\/","title":{"rendered":"Melanie Yergeau Presents Disability Hactivism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spread the WoRD&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/depaulwrd.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/keynote_new.pdf\">keynote address<\/a> will feature DePaul MA in Writing program alumna <a href=\"http:\/\/kuiama.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Melanie Yergeau<\/a>, Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Her talk, titled Disability Hactivism, discusses the history of the term &#8220;hacking,&#8221; positing its problematic relationship to identity construction, particularly concerning disability and transgressive activism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you haven&#8217;t already, click here to <a href=\"http:\/\/5thspreadthewrd.eventbrite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RSVP<\/a> for the conference and talk on Saturday, May 11th.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Disability Hactivism<\/h3>\n<p>Hacking is a many-storied concept, with significations ranging from criminal activity to counter-cultural identity to transgressive activism. Within academic contexts, teacher-scholars have reclaimed and re-purposed hacking as a means of reinventing classroom spaces \u2014 virtually, physically, rhetorically, and ideologically. This presentation explores not only what it means to \u201chack the classroom,\u201d but also asks the following: What bodies does hacking-as-concept center? Using a disability studies framework, she argues that hacking has a disability-imbued history, one that invokes a problematic emphasis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spread the WoRD&#8217;s\u00a0keynote address will feature DePaul MA in Writing program alumna Melanie Yergeau, Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan. Her talk, titled Disability Hactivism, discusses the history of the term &#8220;hacking,&#8221; positing its problematic relationship to identity construction, particularly concerning disability and transgressive activism. If you haven&#8217;t already, click here to RSVP for the conference and talk on Saturday, May 11th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-wrd-speaker-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}