Presented by current Social Justice Education PhD candidates.
Disability Salon Student Spotlight Series: November Spotlight
October Spotlight:
Presentations from current PhD candidates on their dissertations in progress.
Presenters: Aparna Menon and Tania Ruiz Chapman
Respondent: Dr. Susan Antebi
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.
»»ÆÞ¾ãÀÖ²¿ the Disability Salon:
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.
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.
»»ÆÞ¾ãÀÖ²¿ the Speakers
Aparna Menon
Presenter. Current SJE PhD candidate.
Tania Ruiz Chapman
Presenter. Current SJE PhD candidate.
Tania Ruiz-Chapman (she/her) is a Mexican-Canadian disabled woman. She is a PhD candidate at the »»ÆÞ¾ãÀÖ²¿ Institute for Studies in Education (OISE, University of Toronto) in the Social Justice Education program. Her doctoral research is rooted in critical disability studies, critical race theory and migration studies.
Tania's dissertation presents a sociological analysis of migrant labour and disability. Incorporating critical race theory, Marxist theory, and critical disability studies, Tania argues that the social conditions of »»ÆÞ¾ãÀÖ²¿â€™s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program systematically disable and compromise the health of many temporary foreign workers.
Dr. Susan Antebi
Respondent.
Susan Antebi is a Professor of Latin American literature. Her research and writing focus on disability and corporeality, especially in the contexts of contemporary and twentieth-century Mexican cultural production. Her most recent book is Embodied Archive: Disability in Post-Revolutionary Mexican Cultural Production (U of Michigan Press, 2021), which was awarded the 2021 Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities and the 2022 LASA Mexico Section Prize for the Best Book in the Humanities. She is also the author of Carnal Inscriptions: Spanish American Narratives of Corporeal Difference and Disability (Palgrave-Macmillan 2009). Her co-edited volumes include Libre Acceso: Latin American Literature and Film through Disability Studies, with Beth Jörgensen, (SUNY, 2016); and The Matter of Disability: Materiality, Biopolitics, Crip Affect, with David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder, (U of Michigan Press, 2019). Her work has been funded by a SSHRC Insight Grant and a Chancellor Jackman Faculty Research Fellowship. Her current research projects centre on eugenic legacies in contemporary Mexico and the Americas, and on para-abnormal agency in literature and spectacle.
