Applying Universal Designs in a Post-Secondary Environment
VENUE: Conference Rooms A, B and C, SSB, 1200 W Harrison St.
DATE / TIME: Tuesday, February 28th, 1:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m
OR Wednesday, March 1st, 8:30 a.m.-Noon
FEATURES SPEAKERS:
Ruth Townsend is currently the Associate Director and ADA Coordinator in the Office of Equity and Diversity Services at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She has worked in the field of civil rights advocacy & compliance in higher education for over 12 years, concentrating on access and inclusion for persons with disabilities for the last nine years on 3 university campuses. Her strength is in building collaborative relationships to promote full inclusion of persons with disabilities.
John P. S. Salmen, AIA is an architect specializing in barrier free and universal design for over 25 years. He is the president of Universal Designers & Consultants, Inc.. John is a prominent expert in the technical aspects of the Americans with Disabilities Act and an international leader in the emerging field of Universal Design.
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The Chancellors Committe on the Status of Persons with Disabilities
Presents:
Inclusion, Democracy and Disability
VENUE: First Floor Auditorium, DHSP, 1640 W Roosevelt St.
DATE / TIME: Tuesday, April 11th, 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m
PANEL:
Panelists include: Chair, James Charlton, Adjunct Professor of Disability & Human Development, University of Illinois at Chicago & Access Living; Iris Marion Young, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago; David Mitchell, Associate Professor of Disability & Human Development, University of Illinois at Chicago; Mat Fraser, British actor, writer, producer, filmmaker, performer, and musician.
This panel focuses on new thinking about forms of exclusion and inclusion in democratic societies. Talks explicate the struggles of marginalized peoples – particularly disabled people – to access democratic processes of social transformation. Starting from radical feminist political philosopher Iris Marion Young’s arguments in Inclusion and Democracy (Oxford, 2000), the panel explores strategies for achieving “ideals of inclusion, political equality, reasonableness, and publicity.” The conflicts that result in the exclusion of disabled people also prove inequitable for other groups because of their systemic nature. Structural unfairness often results from prejudices, privileges, inaccessibility, and misunderstandings of minority groups who have been historically silenced. However, the vitality of the public sphere and various marginalized groups’ ability to organize often cross such barriers and bridge cultural differences.