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Kaitlyn Pothier and Kathryn Currie Reinders recently published a chapter in Canadian Settler Colonialism: Reliving the Past, Opening New Paths called “Complex Erasures: Re/Production of Disability Under Settler Colonialism.” The authors used their experience as Live Work Well Research Centre (LWWRC) graduate research assistants on a shadow report for the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons of Disabilities (UNCRPD) to explore how colonial perspectives of disability do not account for Indigenous women, girls, or 2SLGBTQQIA people with disabilities.

Join us in-person on November 4, 2024, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., to welcome guest speaker Kirsten Van Houten. As co-editor with Alex Neve, Kirsten will be making the first public presentation of their recent book, Hand in Hand? Canada at the Human Rights and Peacebuilding Nexus.

The University of Guelph’s Office of Diversity and Human Rights (DHR) has kicked off this year’s “Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Workshop Wednesday Training Series.” Each Wednesday from October 23 to November 27, DHR will be holding a training session tackling a subject related to equity, diversity, inclusion, anti-oppression, microaggressions, anti-bias, and more! Most are in-person in University Centre room 332, with the exception of October 30.  

From November 5th – 8th, 2024, the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences (CSAHS) will be hosting Research Week. This week celebrates interdisciplinary collaboration through research exchange, networking opportunities, and an overall strengthening of the research community. Over the course of three days, a series of researchers will present on a research topic of their choosing followed by a Q&A session with the audience.  

After reading Robin Will Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass, Dr. Sara Stricker (Guelph Turfgrass Institute) was prompted to collaborate with Dr. Susan Chiblow (School of Environmental Sciences), Natasha Young (Indigenous Student Centre), and Elders Mary Lou and Dan Smoke. Stricker hoped to grow a garden of sweetgrass for the University of Guelph campus.  

On November 7, 2024, at 1:30-3:00p.m. ET on Zoom, the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Health Equity and Community Wellbeing at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) will be hosting a lecture series. Speakers Dr. Ravi Malhotra and Emily Ruppel, Ph.D., will dive into the topic of Disability Accommodation in the Workplace.  

Sharon Findlay was featured on Season 3 Episode 2 of Dispersion, a Podcast by the Zoryan Institute, on the topic Expectations of Motherhood: You Can’t Just Leave it at the Airport. We wanted to find out more about how Sharon’s work on migration, oral history, and motherhood intersects with the work of the LWWRC on livelihoods.  

Sakhi Sanghvi completed her winter 2024 Co-op Work Term with the Live Work Well Research Centre. This was her experience.   

Dr. Hussein Abdullah, professor in UofG’s School of Engineering, has spent the past twenty years developing technology to improve the lives of people with limb impairments.  

September 23rd marked the beginning of Truth and Reconciliation Week at the University of Guelph and across Canada. This week is a time to honour the lost children and survivors of residential schools, and recognize the ongoing effects of colonization on First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples.