Graduate students and faculty are invited to participate in this pre-colloquium event: a roundtable discussion of UIUC alumnus Robert McRuer‘s work-in-progress “Notes on a Queer/Crip Horizon: Beyond Austerity and Excess.” This short piece focuses on Oscar Pistorius and the 2012 Olympics as part of McRuer’s larger book project Cripping Austerity, which examines the impact of a global austerity politics on disabled people. It will be held Thursday, May 1 from 1:00-2:30 p.m., and a short piece will be pre-circulated among participants.

Please pre-register by emailing Claire Barber at cbarber3@illinois.edu. Space is limited.