Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
Open lecture. Dr. Margaret Price: Everyday Survival and Collective Action
Lecture
Date:Tuesday 19 August 2025
Time:15.00 – 16.30
Location:Auditorium 9 (Hörsal 9), floor 3, building D, Södra huset, Campus Frescati.
Dr. Margaret Price (she/they) is Professor of English (Writing, Rhetoric & Literacy) at The Ohio State University, OH, USA, and will give an open lecture at the Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism, Stockholm University: Everyday Survival and Collective Action: Studying the Spaces of U.S. Higher Education.
Dr. Margaret Price. Photo: Claudine Kosier.
In this talk, Margaret Price shares her research on disability, access, and inclusion in higher education. She discusses findings from her book Crip Spacetime (Duke University Press, 2024) and describes emerging research, which focuses on concepts including “gathering” and “safety” in U.S. university spaces.
Bio
Dr. Margaret Price (she/they) is Professor of English (Writing, Rhetoric & Literacy) at The Ohio State University, where she also serves as Director of the Disability Studies Program, as well as co-founder of the Transformative Access Project. She is the author of the award-winning books Crip Spacetime (Duke University Press, 2024; open-source) and Mad at School (University of Michigan Press, 2011). During Spring 2022, she was in residence at the University of Gothenberg, Sweden on a Fulbright Grant to study universal design and collective access. She is now at work on a project focusing on the ways people build access through gathering.
