Touching Stories: Tactile Objects and the Making of Blind Culture Since the 19th Century

Please join Professor David Serlin for Touching Stories: Tactile Objects and the Making of Blind Culture Since the 19th Century, a workshop. David Serlin is a Professor of Communication and Science Studies, and affiliated faculty in Critical Gender Studies and the Interdisciplinary Group in Cognitive Science, at UC San Diego. He is the author or editor of numerous books including Keywords in Disability Studies (NYU Press, 2015) and Window Shopping with Helen Keller: Architecture and Disability in Modern Culture (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming). In 2020, David was awarded the Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome, where he is now a Fellow (FAAR ‘21). If you have any questions, please call 858-404-5000 for more information.