Join us on Thursday, May 15 in the Library (Building 1L) Archives (Room 216) at 5:30pm for “The Willowbrook State School: A Story of State Austerity and Violence.”
Join Dr. Rosanne Carlo, an Associate Professor in the English Department at CSI, for a public lecture on the origins of the Willowbrook State School. Carlo will explain the history of institutionalization of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the United States and how it further functioned as a form of segregation. She will discuss two main ideas that led to the poor and violent conditions at Willowbrook and other similar institutions: the persistence of the pseudo-scientific philosophy of eugenics and the logics of austerity in state budgetary decisions. The history of Willowbrook should be told as a warning–-that we never see the care of people with disabilities as a form of burden and waste.
Space is limited, please RSVP online to reserve your seat.
By the CSI Foundation
