SJSU iSchool’s Celebration of Disability Pride Month
"Moral Treatment”: Libraries, Neurodiversity, and Labour in Historical Context

Webcast August 10, 2025 Ben Mitchell Christine Moeller

Please join the San José State University School of Information for its symposium in celebration of Disability Pride Month.

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Welcome (10:00 – 10:05 a.m. Pacific Time)

Dr. Anthony Chow, PhD, Professor and Director, SJSU iSchool

Opening Keynote Address (10:05 – 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time)

Dr. Ben Mitchell: Librarian, Thompson Rivers University

Panel Discussion (11:00 – 11:55 a.m. Pacific Time)

Dr. Christine Moeller: Scholar and faculty, UW

Concluding Remarks (11:55 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time)

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Speaker August 8, 2025

Ben Mitchell
Librarian, Thompson Rivers University

Dr. Ben Mitchell (he/they) is a librarian, educator, and researcher with a background in the history of science, medical humanities, and neurodiversity studies. Committed to making scholarship more accessible, as an assistant curator at the Lakeshore Grounds Interpretive Centre, they helped design public programming related to the history of mental health and neurodivergence at the site of the former Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital in Etobicoke, Ontario.

Speaker August 8, 2025

Christine Moeller
Scholar and Faculty, University of Washington

Christine M. Moeller is an independent scholar and Guest Faculty at the University of Washington Information School. Previously, they were an academic librarian, with a focus on information literacy instruction, inclusive pedagogies, and transparent teaching. Christine’s current research is grounded in critical disability studies to examine the workplace experiences of neurodivergent library workers, with the goal of making libraries and society more inclusive of neurodivergent people like themself.

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SJSU iSchool’s Celebration of Disability Pride Month
"Moral Treatment”: Libraries, Neurodiversity, and Labour in Historical Context

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Ben Mitchell
Librarian, Thompson Rivers University

Christine Moeller
Scholar and Faculty, University of Washington

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SJSU iSchool’s Celebration of Disability Pride Month "Moral Treatment”: Libraries, Neurodiversity, and Labour in Historical Context

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SJSU iSchool’s Celebration of Disability Pride Month
"Moral Treatment”: Libraries, Neurodiversity, and Labour in Historical Context