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January 2026 Newsletter

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SJE Newsletter - January 2026

January Highlights

Professional photo of the SJE 12th floor working desk area. It is a spacious modern office with green walls and round ceiling lights. A brown-skinned student works alone by the window on the left, overlooking the Toronto cityscape. Bright and serene atmosphere.
SJE Website Updates
The Department of SJE shares several updates to the website, celebrating past and present students.
Promo Poster. white text over navy reads 鈥淪JE 2026 COLLOQUIUM SERIES Abigail Bakan & Yasmeen Abu-Laban on Human Rights and the United Nations: Paradox and Promise." Small grey text below reads "JAN 23 3-5PM. HYBRID: Nexus Lounge and Zoom." OISE logo at bottom right. presenters headshots are on right. on top is Yasmeen Abu-Laban, arab woman, straight brown hair, smiles, wears a blue top; below is Abigail Bakan, white Jewish woman with short grey hair, glasses, wears dark top with jacket over
Colloquium: Abigail Bakan and Yasmeen Abu-Laban on Human Rights and the United Nations
SJE's Abigail Bakan and UAlberta's Yasmeen Abu-Laban present on their 2025 co-edited book Human Rights and the United Nations: Paradox and Promise.
Split image of 2 Lunch & Learn flyers. Left: "Finding Supervision & Forming a Committee" with photo of Dr. Rub茅n Gaztambide-Fern谩ndez. January 14, 2026, 12-1PM Airspace, Rm 12-252. decorative clipart like speech bubbles, a tea cup, SJEDSA logo. Right: "Designing an OGS Proposal: Tips and Strategies" with photo of Dr. Hayley Brooks. January 30, 2026, 12-1PM, SJE boardroom. decorative clipart like speech bubbles, books, SJEDSA logo.
SJE DSA January Lunch & Learns: Supervision and OGS
SJE DSA will host two Lunch & Learn sessions in January on forming a supervisory committee and designing an OGS proposal led by SJE Faculty members.
Seema Allahdini headshot. She is a brown skinned woman wearing wide black glasses, a denim shirt over a brown top, and beaded necklace. She stands in front of vibrant yellow and green leaves. Her long brown hair is in a bun.
PhD Student Seema Allahdini is awarded 2025 Emerging Scholar Award by Canadian Association for Social Justice and Education
SJE PhD Student Seema Allahdini is awarded Canadian Association for Social Justice and Education (CASJE) 2025 Emerging Scholar Award.
Split image with a journal cover on the left that reads "VOLUME 12 鈥 NUMERO 1 鈥 Hiver 2025 ENJEUX & SOCI脡T脡 APPROCHES TRANSDISCIPLINAIRES La d茅colonisation francophone : 茅pist茅mologies, perspectives et praxis DIRECTION DU NUM脡RO Amal Madibbo." Amal Madibbo is on the right; a photo of her smiling outdoors, wearing sunglasses and a white T-shirt, with a scenic view of a city and mountains in the background. She is a black woman with short curly hair.
Dr. Amal Madibbo is Guest Editor for Special Issue of Enjeux & Soci茅t茅
Dr. Amal Madibbo is guest editor and contributor for special issue of Enjeux & Soci茅t茅 titled La d茅colonisation francophone : 茅pist茅mologies, perspectives et praxis.
Split image. Left: Disability Studies Quarterly light blue poster for Vol 44, Issue 5, 2025, titled 'Mad Methods'. Guest editors: Efrat Gold & Michael Rembis. Lists authors including Leanne Toshiko Simpson, Jose Miguel Esteban, Maria Karmiris, others. Right: Poster large text says 鈥淢AD METHODS JOIN US TO CELEBRATE THE LAUNCH OF THIS SPECIAL ISSUE OF DSQ鈥 smaller text has date, location, accessibility, qr code. Logos: SJE, OISE, Disability Salon, University at Buffalo, Center for Disability Studies, ReImagin
SJE Students, Alumni, and More Publish in Disability Studies Quarterly + January Launch Event
SJE community publishes articles in Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ) Special issue: Mad Methods.
Split image. Left: Lore/tta LeMaster headshot. A white gender-nonconforming person, bald, smiling, wears hoop earrings and abstract colourful floral top. Some tattoos peak out on chest and arms. right: screenshot of research article titled "Un/learning grading" by Corey Reutlinger and Loretta LeMaster. Title, authors, relevant dates, citations/metrics/pdf links/etc, and abstract are visible. Link visible is https://doi-org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/10.1080/03634523.2025.2593231
New Publication by Dr. Lore/tta LeMaster in Communication Education
Dr. Lore/tta LeMaster publishes an article in Communication Education: 鈥淯n/learning grading: a collaborative autie-ethnographic exploration of unlearning an institutional impulse to grade.鈥
Three-image splice. Left: Tanya Titchkosky headshot, a white woman with shoulder-length blonde hair with bangs, wears a blue and black top and a necklace, smiles. Middle: cover of DISABILITY AND THE UNIVERSITY: A Disabled Students' Manifesto, 2nd Ed. Christopher McMaster AND Benjamin Whitburn, EDITORS. FOREWORD TO SECOND ED BY Tanya Titchkosky & Rod Michalko. it is a green cover with centre image of students protesting. Right: Rod Michalko, white man wears sunglasses and dark shirt, smiles, blue hue.
Dr. Tanya Titchkosky and Dr. Rod Michalko Contribute Foreword to Disability and the University (2nd ed)
Dr. Tanya Titchkosky and Dr. Rod Michalko write the foreword to the second edition of Disability and the University: A Disabled Students鈥 Manifesto.
UOF/OISE MOU signing ceremony photo by Brian Summers. A diverse group of 19 people stands behind a table with three seated individuals shaking hands. OISE Dean Erica Walker (left) shakes hands with Professor Normand Labrie director and vice-chancellor of the UOF (middle), who shakes hands with an unidentified person. They are smiling, conveying unity and celebration. Behind them are banners for OISE and UOF and flags. Among the group of people is Professor Amal Madibbo.
On the Partnership Between OISE & Universit茅 de l鈥橭ntario fran莽ais (UOF)
Recalling the November 2025 celebrations marking the MOU signing the partnership between OISE & Universit茅 de l鈥橭ntario fran莽ais (UOF).

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