Disability Justice in the City: Monday, April 22, 2024, 7-9 pm
Infrastructure barriers, inequitable urban planning, and discriminatory bylaws and policies disproportionately impact and prevent marginalized communities, particularly those who are poor, disabled, or racialized, from fully participating in urban life. As a result, Ottawa is home to some of the most pressing social issues, including food scarcity, inaccessible transit, housing insecurity, police violence and surveillance, a poisoned drug supply, and more.
The DJCCC invites you to engage with some of Ottawa’s emerging and established disability justice activists and artists striving to make the city a more accessible and just environment for all its inhabitants. Disability justice centres the transformative role of disability politics, cultures, and communities to collectively dismantle ableism and build, through cross-movement solidarity, more accessible and socially just relations in the national capital region and beyond. Join us as we explore what it means to transform our city through the lens of disability justice.
In person at Woodside Hall, Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre and Online.
Captioning, ASL interpretation, and Visual Note-taking will be provided.
Thursday, February 15, 2024, 3-5 pm
Join us for a virtual lecture with Dr. Michele Friedner (University of Chicago) discussing deaf people’s desires to create habitable worlds and grappling with their futures amid a surge in biotechnical interventions and disability rights activism in India and beyond. Dr. Friedner will be joined by Carleton discussants Marie-Eve Carrier Moisan and Kendal David, with discussion moderated by Kelly Fritsch.
Captioning and ASL interpretation will be provided.
This event is part of Carleton’s Critical Disability Studies Discussion Series on Disability, Accessibility, and Technology.
Monday, January 29, 2024, 2:30-4:30 pm
Join us for a virtual lecture by Dr. Meryl Alper (Northeastern University) discussing her ethnographic research on the digital lives of autistic young people documented in her new book Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing up Autistic in the Digital Age.
Dr. Alper will be joined by Carleton discussants Miranda Brady and Kate Ellis, with discussion moderated by Kelly Fritsch.
Captioning and ASL interpretation will be provided.
This event is part of Carleton’s Critical Disability Studies Discussion Series on Disability, Accessibility, and Technology.
Friday, December 8, 2023, 2:30-4:30 pm
Join us for a virtual public lecture by Dr. Ashley Shew (Virginia Tech) who will examine what we think we know about disability and its entanglement with technology drawing from her new book Against Technoableism: Rethinking who needs improvement.
Dr. Shew will be joined by Carleton discussants Dr. Fady Shanouda and MA student Adele Ruhdorfer, with discussion moderated by Dr. Kelly Fritsch.
Captioning and ASL interpretation will be provided.