PROGRAMMING
Schedule of Events
Keynote Speaker Rebekah Taussig, Ph.D. with short blond hair, bright red professional jacket, clasped hands, crossed legs in black pants, sits in wheelchair in front of a gray brick wall with bright sketchy graffiti of farm crops in reds and greens with a blue ribbon of sky. A low green plant with long leaves extending from grounded center is next to Taussig’s right.
Pennsylvania Tech Summit
Temple University Institute on Disabilities Pennsylvania Tech Summit
with Keynote Speaker Rebekah Taussig, Ph.D.
Expanding Awareness and Access
The goal of the Summit is to expand the awareness of, and access to, assistive technology and remote technologies in order to build capacity of technology users throughout the Commonwealth. Free. Lunch is provided.
The Technology Accelerator Summit will be held on two dates at two locations with very similar content and presentations.
Philadelphia, Thursday, March 6, 2025, 9 a.m. to 4:30 pm
Temple University, Howard Gittis Student Center (Temple maps and directions)
Pittsburgh, Thursday, March 13, 2025, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Carlow University, A.J. Palumbo Hall of Science and Technology (Carlow maps, directions, and parking)
Keynote Speaker Rebekah is an author, educator, and disability rights activist dedicated to changing cultural narratives around disability, motherhood, and what it means to live in a human body. She believes storytelling can change the world, literally. (Read more on Rebekah's website)
Four Concurrent Strands
From Advocacy to Action: Policies and Funding for Assistive Technology
Innovative Remote Supports for Everyday Living
Technology for Access and Community Living
Technology Accelerator: Into the Future
Panel Discussion
A panel of technology users will give advice, share their own stories of how technology has helped them, and answer questions.
Vendors
Invited vendors will showcase their services and devices, and share solutions with attendees.
Accessibility
Both summit locations provide barrier-free entrances, wheelchair-accessible spaces and restrooms, and quiet spaces. Keynote sessions will be live captioned (CART); other sessions will include auto-generated captions. The registration form below may be used to request other accommodations. Please submit requests at least two weeks before your chosen event.
Past Events
4/13/23
3:30-4:30pm EST
Writing and Literature as Forms of Care with Author Susan Muaddi Darraj
3/20/23
7-8:30pm EST
9/18/23-12/17/23
Eternal Maternal
Kelly Strayhorn Theater, 5941 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Opening Reception: Monday, September 18, 6:00pm
8/28/23-01/19/24
Anthropology of Motherhood: Intersections with Disability
Dyer Arts Center at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf
52 Lomb Memorial Dr, Rochester, NY 14623, Mon-Fri 10am-4pm, and by appointment
11/18/23
Anthropology of Motherhood: Vacuum Sealed, West Chelsea Festival of Art, Spirit del Art Gallery
547 West 27th St., 209, 2nd flr. New York, NY 10001
Performance Art by Fran Flaherty. Materials: paint, canvas, customized plastic bags for canvas, shop vac.
6/2/23-6/11/23
Anthropology of Motherhood: Intersections with Disability
Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival
Opening Reception, June 2, 6-8 pm
10/28/22
The Labor of Care: Art and the Care Paradigm in Anthropology of Motherhood
SECAC 2022 Conference Program, Baltimore, Maryland, hosted by the Maryland Institute College of Art
4/28/22
Care as a #CripRitual Critical Design Lab with Jarah Moesch
4/14/22
Turning the Recorder Off with Harrison Apple
3/31/22
Compassion for Earth, Animals, Humans, Self with Suzy González
3/17/22
Black Madonna to Alpha Shakti: The Great Mother Exalted with Katie Cercone
10/27/21
Anthropology of Motherhood: Paradigms of Care, Artistic Labors, & Anti-Ableism
Parenthood: Choices, Vices and Arts Expressions in Being a Disabled Parent
Lioness Collective: Performance and Poetry Reading
Caring as Curating: Maternal Feminist Practices and Aesthetics in “Anthropology of Motherhood”
