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April Spotlight:

Presentations from current PhD candidates on the process and/or completion of their dissertation and final oral exam (FOE)

Presenters: Jose Miguel ‘Miggy’ Esteban

Reading and Writing Disability Choreographically: Critical-Creative Improvisational Encounters with the Teaching and Learning of Dance.

Presenters: Fiona Cheuk

Dear Aphasia: Unsettling absences in the bureaucratic making of the includable disabled public policy subject.

Respondent: Dr. Lore/tta LeMaster

Refreshments provided. 

In-person event. Zoom link available upon request.

No registration required. 

Event Accessibility Information

All events will include a Zoom e-transcript and window shades to adjust lighting. Together, we will create and cultivate ways of accessing one another and our work. There is ramp access to OISE from Bloor Street and from the St. George Subway station. The Dept. of SJE is located on the north side of the 12th floor, just off the elevators. A large accessible washroom is located near the elevators on the 12th floor. Masks available at all events.

Information and accessibility questions: disabilitysalon@gmail.com.

About the Disability Salon:

Starting in the 2025/2026 academic year, the Disability Salon will extend its offerings to include a series of gatherings to spotlight, celebrate, and support the critical and creative research of disability studies students at different stages of their graduate school and scholarly journeys.

Disability is a story that lives in the midst of our creative and critical movement through the arts. Through the Disability Salon, we come together to engage disability in, with, and through the arts as a dynamic and valuable perspective.

Created in the winter of 2021 by Dr. Devon Healey and PhD student Jose Miguel ‘Miggy’ Esteban, the Disability Salon became a space to navigate how to be together amidst a global pandemic through care and creativity. The work of disabled artists acted as a springboard to immerse ourselves in the creative practices and explorations of disability as we worked to discover where disability might move us. Through student-led creative workshops, film screenings, and the sharing of artistic work, we came together to create a space through which we all share in the doing of disability arts.