{"id":37107,"date":"2021-05-26T18:34:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T18:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/?p=37107"},"modified":"2024-08-09T07:41:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T11:41:18","slug":"disability-futurity-exhibit-interdisciplinary-anticipations-of-a-non-normative-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/2021\/disability-futurity-exhibit-interdisciplinary-anticipations-of-a-non-normative-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Disability Futurity Exhibit: Interdisciplinary Anticipations of a Non-normative Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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To celebrate National AccessAbility Week<\/a>, which is from May 30 to June 5, 2021, the Carleton University Disability Research Group<\/a> (CUDRG) is launching a new virtual exhibit, Disability Futurity: Interdisciplinary Anticipations of a Non-normative Tomorrow<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The series asks how we can change the dominant perceptions of disability in society. Despite the fluctuating, permeable, and time-contingent nature of disability, it is often characterized in medical, social, and even scholarly circles as a binary condition or \u201cillness\u201d. Disability is too often viewed as the result of a tragic event, rather than an identity with which the majority of us will come to identify at some point in our lives. As a consequence, disability is marginalized in the present, which is why this series looked ahead with optimism towards disability futurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disability Futurity refers to the disability of the future and envisions a future marked by a very different concept of \u201cdisability\u201d. In this speaker series, the Carleton University Disability Research Group (CUDRG) and the Liverpool Hope University Centre for Culture & Disability Studies<\/a> (CCDS) seek to re-imagine what disability will mean in the future. Speakers and participants from a range of perspectives explore the growing significance of disability identity outside of the current dominant category of \u201cnormativity\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through this exhibit, you will find recordings of the speakers’ lectures and the discussions that followed (with closed captions and described video available), English transcripts of the events, some French-translated transcripts, and a range of online resources, further reading, and teaching materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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