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Lyuda Luchkova is the head of Garage Education and Inclusive Programs Department

Masha Shchekochikhina is a methodologist in Garage Education and Inclusive Programs Department

Ivan Sorokin is a curator at the Nationwide Children's Library in Tashkent

This section accompanies an exhibition of archival documents on the history of special education in Uzbekistan, based on the study of the work of Vasily Yeroshenko (1890–1952), a writer, polyglot, and educator who was blind from the age of four and worked in education for blind children and teenagers in various countries, and in particular in Tashkent. The exhibition presents a wide variety of education methods and tools, and a lecture by American historian Maria Cristina Galmarini will explore the history of special education in the Soviet Union, from early experiments to the influence that Soviet blind activists had on the international disability rights movement.

Maria Cristina Galmarini

Associate Professor of History and Global Studies at William & Mary. She has published extensively on Soviet history and disability history, including two monographs (Ambassadors of Social Progress: A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold War (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024) and The Right to Be Helped: Deviance, Entitlement, and the Soviet Moral Order (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2016)) and numerous articles.

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This section looks at teacher-student relations and strategies for making the teacher and the student active and equal participants in the education process. How can we work in a diverse collective and make sure that we take the specific needs of everyone into account? How can a teacher learn not to fear making mistakes and convey to students that mistakes are fine? Why do we use different communication strategies and languages to interact with a child in an informal setting?

Ekaterina Savchenko

A mother of two deaf children, a teacher of Russian Sign Language and Russian as a second language, and an early development consultant for deaf children. She is the author of a course for the parents of deaf and hard of hearing children on development and communication with children up to three years old.

Vera Zamyslova 

Curator of accessible programs for neurodiverse visitors at GES-2 House of Culture, an art historian, researcher, and postgraduate student at the Higher School of Economics. She has developed social rehabilitation programs for neurodiverse adults and worked as a volunteer in inclusive projects. Her academic interests include socially oriented practices in contemporary art, representation of minority groups in performance, and critical and anarchist pedagogy.

Yulia Karpenkova

An art historian and mediator at GES-2 House of Culture who develops and adapts tours for various groups, including the blind and partially sighted visitors, deaf and hard of hearing visitors, and neurodiverse visitors. Since the age of 14, she has worked as a volunteer and later a teacher in summer camps for people with autism spectrum disorders and as an assistant teacher in group classes for neurodiverse children and teenagers.

Yulia Potseluyeva

A curator of theater, museum, and education projects.

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This section involves a discussion of the significance of diverse experiences in various cultural projects and how to create new narratives in exhibitions, literature, media products, and family projects.

Nadiya Tyurina 

A Candidate of Pedagogy, lecturer at the Institute of Special Education and Psychology of Moscow City University of Pedagogy and a teacher for children with special needs.

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Rakhat Orozova

A disability analyst at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Kyrgyzstan. She has worked in disability research in Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia for over 25 years.

Nic Annette Miller

An artist, teaching artist, and proud CODA (Child of a Deaf Adult) working in the intersection of ASL advocacy and access to education. She started ASL programs at The Drawing Center providing several public programs and partnerships with schools, while working closely with Deaf teachers and artists. She received her BFA from Utah State University.

Joyce Hom

A Deaf museum educator working within access programs at several museums such as The Whitney and Brooklyn Museum in New York City, and is the Senior ASL Program Coordinator at The Jewish Museum, the only known museum position in the US. She received her BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design.

Liza Mikhailova

Curator of educational projects in culture.