August 15, 2022
- The Carleton University Disability Research Group is preparing a series of webinar entitled Access, Inclusion, and Disability: Connecting disability studies scholars with accessibility practitioners pairing scholars and NGOs, starting late fall, and funded by a SSHRC Connection Grant.
- The CUDRG is finishing its project on Oral Histories of the Disability Rights Movement, 1970-2020 this Fall, with a new website and series of archived interviews.
- We are preparing an article on “Creating, Archiving and Exhibiting Disability History: The Oral Histories of Disability Activists of the Carleton University Disability Research Group”, for t a special issue of the Journal First Monday, entitled: This Feature Has Been Disabled.
- The Shannon Lectures in History of the Spring 2022, on “The Management of Natural Resources and the Environment in Canada: Historical and Transnational Perspectives”, was convened by Stephen Osei Owusu with my collaboration. The Network in Canadian History & Environment (NICHE) published a blog about the series. The recording of the four lectures are posted on the Shannons’ website.
- I am preparing a history of Canada’s engagement with the International Refugee Regime, for a collection on this theme edited by the team of the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN).
- A new grant from LERRN will allow me to work on the theme of archives, disability and refugees, in collaboration with Carleton’s Archives and Special Collections.
- The Canadian Network on Humanitarian History saw the two doctoral internships it sponsored with the support of MITACS finish this past year. The results are described in two blogs: “The History, and Future, of Transnational Humanitarian Work – Report from Two Years of Co-Creation of Knowledge, Policy, and Education Materials” by Helen Kennedy (August 2022) and “Preserving the Legacy of Influential Canadian Humanitarian Lewis Perinbam (1925-2007)“, for the work done by Anna Kozlova (April 2022)
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