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Disability studies should serve as an access ramp between the disability community and research universities. It must forge a fruitful connection between the disability community/movement and such institutions.

-Paul Longmore

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“Nothing about us without us”

 

Salon One - Jan 12th
Unleased and Unruly: Staking Our Claims to Place, Space and Culture

Reception Room, Green College, 4 to 7pm

4:00-4:30 
Welcomes, Prof. Leslie Roman, Educational Studies, Unruly Salon Creator/Producer, Professor Stephen J. Toope, President, and Vice-Chancellor, UBC, Associate Vice President of Equity, Tom Patch and Ruth Warick, Senior Diversity Advisor-Disability, Disability Resourse Centre, Access and Diversity, Dr. Steven Taubeneck, Principal pro-tem, Green College.

4:30-5:00
Catherine Frazee, Co-director, Ryerson RBC Institute for Disability Studies Research and Education, live from Toronto via telecast, Catherine will offer evocative and moody reflections she calls, “Unleashed and Unruly: Staking to our Claims to Place, Space and Culture”.

5:00-5:50
Bonnie Klein, film-maker, screens Shameless: The Art of Disability

5:50-6:15 
Geoff McMurchy, dancer, Artistic Director S4DAC and Unruly Salon, screens, Wingspan Three.

6:15-7:00    
Discussion/reception. Reception Room, Green College.