Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The Office of Public Lectures presents Jaipreet Virdi, scholar activist and Associate Professor at the University of Delaware. The author of “Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History,” Dr. Virdi asks us to consider how being disabled changes the way people view the world and the things they create. Through these perspectives, she invites alternative approaches for remaking crip worlds, one in which disabled people, and the disabled gaze, are centered first and foremost.
Order her book “Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History,” at the UW bookstore: ubookstore.com/Hearing-Happiness-Deafness-Cures-in-History
The Office of Public Lectures presents Jaipreet Virdi, scholar activist and Associate Professor at the University of Delaware. The author of “Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History,” Dr. Virdi asks us to consider how being disabled changes the way people view the world and the things they create. Through these perspectives, she invites alternative approaches for remaking crip worlds, one in which disabled people, and the disabled gaze, are centered first and foremost.
Order her book “Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History,” at the UW bookstore: ubookstore.com/Hearing-Happiness-Deafness-Cures-in-History
