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Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Testing the Accessibility of the Virtual Exhibits

During the fall semester, one of my projects as research administrator and technical advisor was to test the accessibility of the virtual exhibits designed by the various members of the CUDRG, but from the perspective of a PC user. During the winter semester, I had had the chance to test these from the perspective... More

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

CUDRG — Spring Bulletin

Here’s what’s making news in the CUDRG as of now. CUDRG: Spring Bulletin Elevator news: Dominique promised to keep you informed of the project on the accessibility of the elevator in Patterson Hall. It is looking very good as of today. Gary Nower, Assistant Vice-President (Facilities Management and Planning), has authorized the money. Trevor... More

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Save The Date! Disability Futurity: First presentation on March 27

Art Education and Disability Futurity: Subjects on the Edge Dr. Claire Penketh, Liverpool Hope University Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 Time: 9:00–10.30am Place: 617 Southam Hall, Carleton University (live videoconference with Liverpool Hope University, UK.) This seminar brings recent research in art education and disability to consider how a... More

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

CUAEL Project is set to host a showcase on March 25

The CUAEL (Carleton University Accessible Experiential Learning) project is set to host a showcase on March 25 on accessible employer champions; — employers who have gone out of their way to make accessibility a key priority in the workplace. Also, employees of these people will be present. The announcement about this showcase can be... More

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Some CUDRG Members Participating in a Panel at Congress

CUDRG members participate in panel at Congress June 5, University of British Columbia As part of the Canadian Association of Disability Studies Annual Meeting of 2019 Conversations on Disability, History and Postsecondary Education: Looking Back, Moving Forward Nancy Hansen (University of Manitoba): “Missing Figures: Putting Disabled People Back... More

Friday, February 22, 2019

Call For Papers

2019 Special Issue Call for papers: Disability and Children’s Rights Call for papers. The Canadian Journal on Children’s Rights (CJCR) invites interested contributors to submit articles to its special themed issue entitled ‘Disability and Children’s Rights: Reflecting on the CRC–30 Years and Beyond’. In marking the 30-year anniversary... More

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

CUDRG: Winter News Bulletin

News from CUDRG this Winter By Brittany Clayton, Research Administrator and technical Advisor 19 February 2019 Here’s what the CUDRG has been up to since the last meeting on November 1st. Dorothy Jane Smith says that the Mobility Histories exhibit has now been completed. There were technical difficulties, but the Omeka team came to... More

Friday, February 1, 2019

A Quest for Machinery: Adrian D.C. Chan and Beth A. Robertson’s Trip to Montreal

In December 2018, CUDRG co-founder Adrian D.C. Chan and co-PI Beth A. Robertson ventured on a road trip to Montreal. The objective of the trip was to collect several machines developed by and for people who are blind, including a computer punch-card reader equipped with an early speech synthesis software called Spellex, a reading... More

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

A Call For Papers

The CUDRG is launching an exciting new series. 2019-20 Seminar Series: Disability Futurity Call for Proposals Carleton University’s Disability Research Group (CUDRG) Liverpool Hope University’s Centre for Culture and Disability Studies (CCDS) Disability futurity refers to the disability of the future; the future of disability. This series will... More

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Places We’ve Been: Life Sciences Day 2.0

  On May 30, 2018 we attended the second annual Life Sciences Day in Richcraft Hall (formerly River Building) to share CUDRG’s past, present and ongoing research. Similar to last year, we displayed the physical version of “Envisioning Technologies” and one panel on “A Wheelchair History of Disability.” This time around, we also... More

Monday, April 16, 2018

Thalidomide and the UK Welfare State: How a Unique Tragedy Showed the Problems of All People With Disability

This post was presented to the Carleton University Disability Research Group earlier this year and is cross-posted on Active History. By Jameel Hampton Beginning with the recognition of the special needs of disabled schoolchildren in the 1880s, the British state took on the welfare of groups of disabled people perceived to be deserving of... More

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Public Lecture: Disability and the Welfare State in Britain with Dr. Jameel Hampton

Dr. Jameel Hampton Disability and the Welfare State in Britain When: Friday, March 9 from 2:00 to 3:30 pm Where: Paterson Hall, Room 433 The much-celebrated British welfare state of the 1940s to the later 1970s originally excluded disabled civilians. With the “rediscovery of poverty” in the 1960s, promised new and sweeping policies for... More

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