Robert McRuer

The Disability and Identity in History, Literature, and Media summer institute is for twenty-eight K-12 educators. The institute is fully online. Participants explore disability and identity in history, literature, and media. Each day a new guest scholar joins the institute for a full day of active thought and conversation about disability and identity in the K-12 humanities curriculum. Elementary teachers, new teachers, and librarians encouraged to apply. Outcomes include understanding disability and identity; analyzing disability and identity in K-12 humanities curriculum; translating knowledge and analysis into K-12 teaching; and building a national network of resources and K-12 colleagues exploring disability and identity in the humanities curriculum.

Series organized by the Doctoral Programme Human Rights in Contemporary Societies (Centre for Social Studies/Interdisciplinary Research Institute

“Disability Art on Lockdown” attends to disabled ways of knowing, or cripistemologies, that have been particularly useful for navigating the global economic, political, and health crises we are facing. This title has a double valence, gesturing first towards the ways in which disability and art have been, increasingly, on lockdown (facing massive cuts from governments everywhere), even before 2020. Second, however, the title points to some of the amazing ways that crip art was generated during the lockdown of 2020.