{"id":14467,"date":"2020-10-15T15:34:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T19:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=14467"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:45:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:45:03","slug":"on-the-cutting-edge-disabled-canadians-and-rights-acquisition-with-dr-nancy-hansen","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/event\/on-the-cutting-edge-disabled-canadians-and-rights-acquisition-with-dr-nancy-hansen\/","title":{"rendered":"Shannon Lectures &#8211; On the Cutting Edge: Disabled Canadians and Rights Acquisition with Dr. Nancy Hansen"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<h2 id=\"register-here\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/news\/shannon-lectures-2020\/\">REGISTER HERE!<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nancy-Hansen.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nancy-Hansen-240x360.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy Hansen standing with crutches\" class=\"wp-image-20612\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"table-wrapper\">\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>\n<h2><strong><span class=\"x_fontstyle21\">On the Cutting Edge: Disabled Canadians and Rights Acquisition<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"x_fontstyle21\">with Dr. Nancy Hansen<br>\n<\/span><span class=\"x_fontstyle21\">Disability Studies<br>\n<\/span><span class=\"x_fontstyle21\">University of Manitoba<\/span><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"x_fontstyle21\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Quest for Equality: Are We There Yet? . . .No<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>For decades now disabled Canadians have been at the forefront directly involved in human rights acquisition for disabled people at the national and international level. This presentation traces&nbsp; the historical shift in the disability rights landscape from recipients of charity moving to social justice, citizenship rights advocates and activism. The worth, security and value of these rights in the midst of a pandemic is explored in the process.<br>\n<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Speaker Bio<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Nancy Hansen, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and Director of the Interdisciplinary Master\u2019s Program in Disability Studies at the University of Manitoba. Her research interests include: disability in spaces of culture education, history, literacy, employment, healthcare and conflict. She is co-editor of the Routledge History of Disability and Untold Stories: A Canadian Disability History Reader.&nbsp; Nancy has contributed to various international academic journals.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[62],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-14467","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-co-sponorship"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2020-10-23T11:30:00","cu_event_end_date":"2020-10-23T12:30:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/14467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/14467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14475,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/14467\/revisions\/14475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=14467"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=14467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}