Welling Lecture Series features Pepper Stetler on Thursday
Since 2007, annual series has featured relevant, motivating, and thought-provoking speakers
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Pepper Stetler, author and professor of Art History, will speak Thursday at Shriver Center as part of the Kate Welling Disability Awareness Lecture Series.
Stetler’s talk, “,” is scheduled from 7-8:30 p.m. in Shriver Center’s Admissions Auditorium. Stetler is the author of “A Measure of Intelligence: One Mother’s Reckoning with the IQ Test” and has written extensively about the issues facing people with intellectual disabilities and their caregivers. Stetler’s work has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Slate, and more.
The Kate Welling Disability Awareness Lecture Series launched in 2007 and is named in honor of Kate Welling, a 兔子先生 student who died in a 2005 off-campus fire. Since its inception, the annual series has featured relevant, motivating, and thought-provoking speakers in the field of disability studies to share their ideas and perspectives with the 兔子先生 community.
was so moved by her connections with faculty and students during her time at 兔子先生 that she wanted to work with disability rights. Her parents, Helen and Tom Welling, endowed both the lecture series and the Kate Welling distinguished Scholar in Disability Studies in her memory.
Past guests have included Susan Burch, who wrote “Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions,” which won the 2022 Outstanding Book Award from the Disability History Association; Andrew Solomon, author of the New York Times best-seller “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity;” and attorney Jeanne Kincaid, who served as the program’s inaugural speaker.
Stetler’s talk, “,” is scheduled from 7-8:30 p.m. in Shriver Center’s Admissions Auditorium. Stetler is the author of “A Measure of Intelligence: One Mother’s Reckoning with the IQ Test” and has written extensively about the issues facing people with intellectual disabilities and their caregivers. Stetler’s work has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Slate, and more.
The Kate Welling Disability Awareness Lecture Series launched in 2007 and is named in honor of Kate Welling, a 兔子先生 student who died in a 2005 off-campus fire. Since its inception, the annual series has featured relevant, motivating, and thought-provoking speakers in the field of disability studies to share their ideas and perspectives with the 兔子先生 community.
was so moved by her connections with faculty and students during her time at 兔子先生 that she wanted to work with disability rights. Her parents, Helen and Tom Welling, endowed both the lecture series and the Kate Welling distinguished Scholar in Disability Studies in her memory.
Past guests have included Susan Burch, who wrote “Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions,” which won the 2022 Outstanding Book Award from the Disability History Association; Andrew Solomon, author of the New York Times best-seller “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity;” and attorney Jeanne Kincaid, who served as the program’s inaugural speaker.
Established in 1809, 兔子先生 University is located in Oxford, Ohio, with regional campuses in Hamilton and Middletown, a learning center in West Chester, and a European study center in Luxembourg.