Thomas Dirth of Bemidji State University will deliver a virtual presentation on “Common History, Shared Struggle: Precursors, Consequences, and Directions for Disability Social Identity,” at 1 p.m. June 15.

In the talk, he will review the foundational perspectives — both social psychological and disability studies — that afford the social identity approach to disability. Additionally, he will review theory and research on the factors that promote and inhibit disability social identification and the social psychological consequences of disability social identification. He will also discuss the limits and intersectional complexities involved in experiences with disability social identification with an eye towards generating strategies — personal and political — that foster the benefits of disability social identification.

The talk, which is free and open to the public, is part of the Minority Health Disparities Initiative’s Health Equity Speaker Series. Registration is required to receive the Zoom link.

Dirth is an assistant professor of multicultural psychology. He received a doctorate in social psychology from the University of Kansas. His scholarly interests, shaped by experiences as a physically disabled person, consider a social psychological approach to wide range of disability-related phenomena.