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Monday, November 18, 2019
Check out project TDKRA on YouTube! You can also access their manual of Participatory Visual Methodologies... More
Thursday, October 24, 2019
The new Accessible Canada Act C-81 received royal assent on July 21. A film crew followed and interviewed key people on the day, including the Honourable Carla Qualtrough, Senator Jim Munson, James van Raalte, Sinead Tuite, Bill Adair and Frank Folino. Two and a half hours of raw footage from the July 21 proceedings... More
This is a Call for chapters for a collection of essays, between 2000 and 5000 words, as well as creative works that show how disability appears and disappears in our midst. This collection will serve to introduce readers to disability studies. For full details, click here: (attached PDF). Editors: Dr. Tanya Titchkosky, Elaine Cagulada... More
Carleton University Art Gallery invites you to a talk by Brooklyn-based artist and activist Shannon Finnegan: “A Completely Customized World Where Everything Is Just How I Like and Need It.” The talk will take place at Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, located at 355 Cooper Street in downtown Ottawa on October 29, 2019 from 7-8:30pm. This... More
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Dr. Xuan Thuy Nguyen recently published Governing difference: Reflecting on the bio-politics of cure, a review of the book “Curative violence: Rehabilitating disability, gender, and sexuality in modern Korea” by Eunjung Kim. The review is available at: ... More
Monday, October 7, 2019
The latest volume of Critical Disability Discourses/Discours critiques dans le champ du handicap is now available here: https://cdd.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cdd/issue/view/2268. Disability Studies course instructor Dr. Natalie Spagnuolo served as Managing Editor for this volume, which is dedicated to the memory of... More
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Dr. James Deaville was recently awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant for $100,000 for the research project "Sounds of Body: Muteness, Music, and Eugenics in Screen Representation." As part of the grant, he will be supporting student research, workshops, and a web presence, all in the area of music, disability, and screen... More
A new special issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience was recently published on the topic of “Crip Technoscience”. It was guest edited by Dr. Kelly Fritsch with Dr. Aimi Hamraie, Dr. Mara Mills, and Dr. David Serlin. The issue features the Crip Technoscience Manifesto written by Dr. Kelly Fritsch and Dr. Aimi Hamraie, as... More
Dr. Xuan Thuy Nguyen has two new publications that were recently released. Her co-authored article Unsettling research vs. activism: How might critical disability studies disrupt traditional research boundaries? was published in a special themed issue of Disability and Society. Her paper Critical Disability Studies at the Edge of Global... More
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