WELCOME!
DISABILITY STUDIES SUMMER INSTITUTE
July 18th to July 23rd , 2011, Toronto
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto
252 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Canada, M5S 1V6
Director Dr. Tanya Titchkosky
The Disability Studies Summer Institute (DSSI) generously supported by the Dean of OISE, University of Toronto, is enhancing the emerging status of Disability Studies at U of T and beyond. For 6 days (July 18-23, 2011), the DS Summer Institute provides the opportunity for people to engage in an intense interactive and interdisciplinary research based examination of the cultural production of disability in a variety of educational contexts. Approaching disability as a social phenomenon that has been engaged by cultural practices, policies and educational procedures, we are seeking to cultivate theoretical connections among critical race, feminist, queer, and cultural studies theory and disability studies.
The DS Summer Institute addresses the cultural production of disability as an excluded issue whose viability and importance is yet to be explored. We are especially interested in how disability and race intersect as socio-political issues within education. I am sure that the Disability Studies Summer Institute will lead to productive new ventures in the future, including applications to other granting agencies for meeting and research support as well as a special issue of journals at the national and international level. It is exciting to know that we do not know all that will be generated by this gathering of people who wish to think both about disability and disability studies in some new and enlivening ways.
The DSSI participants include professors from across the U of T as well as the province, and our morning Keynote speakers come from UK (MMU), USA (U Alabama), OISE/UT and Queens University (please see schedule). Our disability studies scholars who will play key roles in guiding for this week are:
Dr. Nirmala Erevelles, College of Education Social Foundations of Education and Instructional Leadership, Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Technology Studies. University of Alabama,
Dr. Dan Goodley, Psychology and Social Change, Research Institute for Health and Social Change (RIHSC), Manchester Metropolitan University
Dr. Rod Michalko, Disability Studies, Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, Ontario Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.
The Summer Institute also includes new PhD graduates from SESE as well as students at both the graduate and undergraduate level who represent a variety of disciplines (Education; English; Equity Studies; History; Spanish and Portuguese; Social Work; Sociology; Theology; Women's Studies…). In order to work in an intense fashion exploring and enhancing the significance of disability studies, participation was limited to 50 people. But it is exciting to know that the interest in this Summer Institute far exceeded capacity even though it was not advertise.
There are participants from the wider community as well as from:
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE/UT)
New College, University of Toronto,
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto,
Department of Physical Therapy & Graduate Department of Rehabilitation Science, U of T
Trinity College, University of Toronto
Humber College
Waterloo University
Queens University
Manchester Metropolitan University
University of Manchester
University of Alabama
Ontario College of Art and Design
Ryerson University College, School of Disability Studies
York University (School of Social Work; Department of Social and Political Thought; and Critical Disability Studies)
University of Illinois at Chicago
Nova Scotia Centre on Aging at Mount Saint Vincent University
Wilfred Laurier University
Enjoy!
Tanya
Tanya Titchkosky, Associate Professor,
Director Disability Studies Summer Institute Associate Chair and Graduate Co-ordinator Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, OISE
