24/04/2026
We are delighted to announce that Akriti Mehta will be the keynote presenter at our 17th International Disability Law Summer School.
Akriti Mehta (she/her) is a Mad/disabled researcher and organiser with experience in community, academic, and activist knowledge production. She is the co-director of Mad Thinking, an initiative which strives to build spaces for connection, critical reflection, and shared political learning within disability movements and beyond, especially in global South contexts.
Akriti recently completed a PhD in Social Research Methods from The London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE (UK). Her research focussed on how multiply marginalised psychosocial disability activists in India conceptualise and mobilise ‘psychosocial disability’ in intersectional and radical ways. Akriti is also part of collectives focused on disability justice, anti-racism, and q***r activism in the UK and in India.
Her work and interests are centred around: (1) building links between different activist spaces and social movements; (2) supporting and strengthening disability activisms which challenge ableism as well as capitalism, fascism, militarisation, imperialism, and other systems of oppression; and (3) mapping means and methods of resistance aimed at radical systemic change on a global scale while simultaneously creating local communities and systems rooted in a politics of abolition, collective care, and justice.
This year’s International Disability Law Summer School will mark the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). It will be held from the 15th to the 17th of June in person Institute for Lifecourse and Society, University of Galway and online via Zoom. We look forward, as usual, to a world-class faculty and participants from around the globe. More information on the summer school is available at https://cdlp.clr.events/event/139678
Early bird rates until 30th April 2026.
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