News Archives - Collaborative Specialization in Accessibility /accessibility-specialization/category/news/ Ӱԭ University Thu, 06 Nov 2025 17:12:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 Book Launch: Troubles Online: Ableism and Access in Higher Education /accessibility-specialization/2025/book-launch-troubles-online-ableism-and-access-in-higher-education/ Thu, 06 Nov 2025 17:12:03 +0000 /accessibility-specialization/?p=49 The post Book Launch: Troubles Online: Ableism and Access in Higher Education appeared first on Collaborative Specialization in Accessibility.

]]>

Book Launch: Troubles Online: Ableism and Access in Higher Education

Published on November 6, 2025

Time to read: 1 minutes

News

November 18, 2025, 7-9 pm – Public book launch for featuring Drs. and Fady Shanouda in conversation with Dr. . Ӱԭ Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 290 Lisgar Street.

Link to Event Poster

The post Book Launch: Troubles Online: Ableism and Access in Higher Education appeared first on Collaborative Specialization in Accessibility.

]]> Colloquium with Dr. Chelsea Jones, Telethons and the Futureless Disabled Child in Crip Times /accessibility-specialization/2025/colloquium-with-dr-chelsea-jones-telethons-and-the-futureless-disabled-child-in-crip-times/ Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:29:58 +0000 /accessibility-specialization/?p=47 The post Colloquium with Dr. Chelsea Jones, Telethons and the Futureless Disabled Child in Crip Times appeared first on Collaborative Specialization in Accessibility.

]]>

Colloquium with Dr. Chelsea Jones, Telethons and the Futureless Disabled Child in Crip Times

Published on November 6, 2025

Time to read: 1 minutes

News

November 17, 2025, 3-4:30 pm – Public lecture by on “Telethons and the Futureless Disabled Child in Crip Times.” Dunton Tower, Room 2017.

Link to Event Poster

The post Colloquium with Dr. Chelsea Jones, Telethons and the Futureless Disabled Child in Crip Times appeared first on Collaborative Specialization in Accessibility.

]]> Anna-Karina Tabuñar is the first student to graduate with Ӱԭ’s new specialization in Accessibility /accessibility-specialization/2024/17/ Mon, 17 Jun 2024 19:22:00 +0000 /accessibility-specialization/?p=17 Anna-Karina Tabuñar, the first student to graduate with Ӱԭ University’s new specialization in Accessibility, is featured in the article “Inspiring Spring Graduates Look Back on Time at Ӱԭ.”

The post Anna-Karina Tabuñar is the first student to graduate with Ӱԭ’s new specialization in Accessibility appeared first on Collaborative Specialization in Accessibility.

]]>

Anna-Karina Tabuñar is the first student to graduate with Ӱԭ’s new specialization in Accessibility

Published on November 6, 2025

Time to read: 1 minutes

News

Anna-Karina Tabuñar, the first student to graduate with Ӱԭ University’s new specialization in Accessibility, is featured in the article “.”

The post Anna-Karina Tabuñar is the first student to graduate with Ӱԭ’s new specialization in Accessibility appeared first on Collaborative Specialization in Accessibility.

]]> ACE-EDI Series: Improving retention and success of students with disabilities through inclusive field education and community building /accessibility-specialization/2024/22/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:27:00 +0000 /accessibility-specialization/?p=22 Dr. Anita Marshall is a Lecturer and geoscience education researcher at the University of Florida and will be presenting a talk “Improving retention and success of students with disabilities through inclusive field education and community building.” This is part of Ӱԭ University’s Faculty of Science Awareness, Collaboration and Engagement (ACE) series on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion […]

The post ACE-EDI Series: Improving retention and success of students with disabilities through inclusive field education and community building appeared first on Collaborative Specialization in Accessibility.

]]>

ACE-EDI Series: Improving retention and success of students with disabilities through inclusive field education and community building

Published on November 6, 2025

Time to read: 1 minutes

News

 is a Lecturer and geoscience education researcher at the University of Florida and will be presenting a talk “Improving retention and success of students with disabilities through inclusive field education and community building.” This is part of Ӱԭ University’s Faculty of Science Awareness, Collaboration and Engagement (ACE) series on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

When: Thursday, March 14th, 2024
Time: 11:30 am — 12:30 pm
Location: Pigiarvik (ᐱᒋᐊᕐᕕᒃ), 608
Audience: Anyone
Cost: Free

Register at:

The post ACE-EDI Series: Improving retention and success of students with disabilities through inclusive field education and community building appeared first on Collaborative Specialization in Accessibility.

]]> Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India /accessibility-specialization/2024/21/ Fri, 02 Feb 2024 20:28:39 +0000 /accessibility-specialization/?p=21 Join us for a virtual lecture by Dr. Michele Friedner (University of Chicago) discussing her open access book, Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India, which won the 2023 Rachel Carson Prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science. A compelling and nuanced ethnography with deaf children and their families, audiologists, speech and language pathologists, surgeons, cochlear […]

The post Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India appeared first on Collaborative Specialization in Accessibility.

]]>

Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India

Published on November 6, 2025

Time to read: 2 minutes

News

Join us for a virtual lecture by Dr. Michele Friedner (University of Chicago) discussing her  book, Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India, which won the 2023 Rachel Carson Prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science.

A compelling and nuanced ethnography with deaf children and their families, audiologists, speech and language pathologists, surgeons, cochlear implant manufacturers, and government officials, Sensory Futures documents how cochlear implants come to be heralded as a normalizing technology in ways that narrows the possibilities for communicative abundance. In attending to the multi-sensorial processes by which knowledge and experiences of the world are produced and valued, Friedner traces the worlds that cochlear implants afford and constrain, skillfully manoeuvring through global political economies, socio-technical infrastructures, transnational understandings of childhood disability, and much more.

Dr. Friedner will be joined by Ӱԭ discussants Marie-Eve Carrier-Mosian and Kendal David, with discussion moderated by Kelly Fritsch. 

Register here.

Captioning and ASL interpretation will be provided. 

This event is part of Ӱԭ’s Critical Disability Studies Discussion Series on Disability, Accessibility, and Technology, , sponsored by Research and Education in Accessibility, Design, and Innovation (READi); Joint Chair in Women’s Studies (JCWS) at the University of Ottawa and Ӱԭ University; Ӱԭ’s Disability Justice and Crip Culture Collaboratory (DJCCC); Ӱԭ’s Graduate Collaborative Specialization in Accessibility; Ӱԭ’s School of Social Work; and Ӱԭ’s Feminist Institute of Social Transformation (FIST).

The post Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India appeared first on Collaborative Specialization in Accessibility.

]]> Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement /accessibility-specialization/2023/against-technoableism-rethinking-who-needs-improvement/ Fri, 27 Oct 2023 19:31:47 +0000 /accessibility-specialization/?p=24 In this event Dr. Ashley Shew, Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech will examine what we think we know about disability and its intersection with technology drawing from her new book, Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement. For more information and to register for this event,visit the READi website.

The post Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement appeared first on Collaborative Specialization in Accessibility.

]]>

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

Published on November 6, 2025

Time to read: 1 minutes

News

In this event , Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech will examine what we think we know about disability and its intersection with technology drawing from her new book, Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement. For more information and to register for this event,visit the READi website.

The post Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement appeared first on Collaborative Specialization in Accessibility.

]]> Education (in) accessibility: Double trouble with an intersectional gaze on progress /accessibility-specialization/2023/education-in-accessibility-double-trouble-with-an-intersectional-gaze-on-progress/ Sun, 22 Oct 2023 19:31:05 +0000 /accessibility-specialization/?p=23 In the next EDI Speaker Series, organized by the Department of Equity and Inclusive Communities,Dr. Yvonne Simpson brings to attention the significance of an intersectionality framework as a key indicator for analysis in determining real achievements in EDI initiatives. She argues that new mechanisms for accountability of progress towards achieving barrier free experiences can only be effectively […]

The post Education (in) accessibility: Double trouble with an intersectional gaze on progress appeared first on Collaborative Specialization in Accessibility.

]]>

Education (in) accessibility: Double trouble with an intersectional gaze on progress

Published on November 6, 2025

Time to read: 1 minutes

News

In the next EDI Speaker Series, organized by the Department of Equity and Inclusive Communities, brings to attention the significance of an intersectionality framework as a key indicator for analysis in determining real achievements in EDI initiatives. She argues that new mechanisms for accountability of progress towards achieving barrier free experiences can only be effectively advanced with changing the way systems operate in the lives of people who require accessible environments. Drawing on disability discourses and recent examples of discrimination, Simpson implicates deeply entrenched historical exclusionary practices, archaic administrative models in disability services, recruitment and hiring as troubling areas for equity identified racialized members in post-secondary institutions. For more information and to register for this event,visit the EIC website.

The post Education (in) accessibility: Double trouble with an intersectional gaze on progress appeared first on Collaborative Specialization in Accessibility.

]]> 7th and Final Annual Research and Education in Accessibility, Design, and Innovation (READi) Symposium /accessibility-specialization/2023/25/ Mon, 18 Sep 2023 19:33:20 +0000 /accessibility-specialization/?p=25 The 7th and final Research and Education in Accessibility, Design, and Innovation (READi) Symposium is scheduled for Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at Ӱԭ University. READi is an accessibility training program funded by NSERC and a precursor of the Collaborative Specialization in Accessibility. Visit the READi website for more information and to register (attendance is free).

The post 7th and Final Annual Research and Education in Accessibility, Design, and Innovation (READi) Symposium appeared first on Collaborative Specialization in Accessibility.

]]>

7th and Final Annual Research and Education in Accessibility, Design, and Innovation (READi) Symposium

Published on November 6, 2025

Time to read: 1 minutes

News

The 7th and final Research and Education in Accessibility, Design, and Innovation (READi) Symposium is scheduled for Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at Ӱԭ University. READi is an accessibility training program funded by NSERC and a precursor of the Collaborative Specialization in Accessibility. Visit the READi website for more information and to register (attendance is free).

The post 7th and Final Annual Research and Education in Accessibility, Design, and Innovation (READi) Symposium appeared first on Collaborative Specialization in Accessibility.

]]>