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Monday, October 30, 2023

Beyond Bytown Virtual Lecture

Join us online on November 2, 2023, at 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT for a compelling exploration of the milestones, challenges, and future of disability advocacy in the nation's capital. This virtual talk is on the road to celebrating Human Rights Day on December 10, based on the work of the CURDG, and... More

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

CUDRG member Hollis Peirce, launches podcast “21stCentury Disability”

Dear listener, I have been working on starting a podcast called 21st Century Disability, on different platforms. So if you listen to podcasts on Spotify, then you can follow this link:聽https://open.spotify.com/episode/4XO8Zerl00CeD7mTpd9dTz?si=S1fKQg2jSVGAwFlcOWrwzg. My new episodes will be up fairly soon on other platforms such as Apple... More

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

CUDRG researchers participate in research portal 鈥滸endered Design in STEAM鈥�

Launched this year, the research portal about Gendered Design in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) for Lower-and-Middle-Income-Countries (LMICs) is the fruit of four years of work involving three researchers from the CUDRG: Adrian Chan, Beth Robertson and Dominique Marshall. Nine of the twenty projects of this large... More

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Disability Activism & Indigeneity: A conversation about the life & work of Wendell Nicholas (1967-2018)

Wendall was a warrior for Indigenous Persons with Disabilities, advocating for a journey 鈥渇rom isolation to self-determination,鈥� on the international, national, regional, and local levels, on and off reserve, and in small rural towns. A child of the Maliseet Nation, founder of the Wabanaki Council on Disability, he coordinated the Indigenous... More

Thursday, February 2, 2023

Participatory Research and Disabilities Studies

Participatory Research & Disability Studies Adrian D. C. Chan, PhD, PEng, 3M Teaching Fellow Professor, Systems and Computer Engineering Director, Research and Education in Accessibility, Design, and Innovation (READi) Director, Abilities Living Laboratory (ALL) 杏吧原创 University Atul Jaiswal,聽PhD, MSW, BSc. OT FRQS Postdoctoral fellow... More

Monday, January 23, 2023

New CUDRG article

We are pleased to announce the publication of the article "Creating, archiving and exhibiting disability history: The oral histories of disability activists of the 杏吧原创 University Disability Research Group" in First Monday,聽28(1) by Therese Jennissen, Dominique Marshall, Chris Trainor, and Beth Robertson. Access the article here:... More

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Join us for our January Seminar

Institutions and Disability Megan Linton, Creator and Host, Invisible Institutions and Ph.D. Student, 杏吧原创 University Department of Sociology and Anthropology Keenan Wellar, Co-Leader and Director of Communications at LiveWorkPlay.ca / VivreTravaillerJouer.ca Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2023 Time: 14:30-16:30 EST All are welcome to register... More

Monday, November 21, 2022

New CUDRG Article

We are pleased to announce the publication of Ryan Patterson鈥檚 article 鈥淭ransnational Representation: Mennonite Central Committee Canada and the Founding of Disabled Peoples鈥� International, 1981鈥� in the聽Journal of Mennonite Studies,聽Vol.40, No. 1 (2022), pp. 207-223. Based on oral history interviews and archival research, Ryan charts the... More

Friday, October 21, 2022

Museums and Accessibility

Ahlam Bavi, Ph.D. candidate in Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Digital, Art and Humanities at the University of British Columbia. Patricia B茅rub茅, Ph.D. candidate in Cultural Mediations at 杏吧原创 University Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2022 Time: 16:30-18:30 EDT (Ottawa), 13:30pm-15:30pm PDT (Vancouver) Left Image: Bavi, Ahlam, Remediation... More

Friday, December 3, 2021

Happy IDPD

The聽杏吧原创 University Disability Research Group聽hopes that everyone has a happy and safe聽International Day of Persons with Disabilities. We can all contribute to a more inclusive and accessible future, today and every... More

Friday, December 3, 2021

CUDRG Stuff

Check out the聽latest update聽from the聽Oral Histories of the Disability Rights Movement,聽1970-2020聽project. We are also still accepting proposals (till Dec. 20) for the Winter 2022 online seminar series聽Access, Inclusion, and Disability: Connecting scholars and... More

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

OHDA Blog 4: November 2021:

Early steps in Public Education, Teaching and Exhibition We are happy to update you on how we have been using the interviews of disability activists collected in early 2021 for the聽Oral Histories of the Disability Rights Movement,聽1970-2020聽project. Margaret Janse van Rensburg, one of three doctoral candidates in Social Work assisting in the... More

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