CDSWG

Initially, CDSWG was a modest effort. It provided a space and dedicated blocks of time where researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, community activists, and practitioners committed to critical disability studies, could meet to discuss their current research and develop ideas for future collaboration. We began with holding series of research presentations, workshops and screenings by CDSWG members... Drawing on this burgeoning synergy and ongoing discussions, we decided that it was long past due that we have a disability working group (WG) housed in Montreal. Through cross-departmental efforts, and just a few months after the Encuentro Festival, we founded Quebec's first Critical Disability Studies Working Group (CDSWG) in a university context at Concordia. Sponsored by Concordia's Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, CDSWG branched across departments, bringing together students, faculty, researchers and creators from Communication Studies, Art..

Primary location: Montreal