Núcleo Disca

Disability and citizenship

Conversation with Activists: Disca Activism in Latin American Key

Lugar: Virtual

Fecha: 15/06/2023

Hora: 6:00 pm

Link: https://youtu.be/ijZyf2E89LU

The DISCA Millennium Nucleus held the second Conversation with Activists, called “Disca Activism in Latin American Key”, a space to learn about the experiences of prominent people with disabilities.

On this occasion, the discussion had as protagonists:

  • Eduardo Joly, sociologist and co-founder of the Network for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (REDI), Argentina. He also chairs Rumbos Accesibilidad, is Schomburg Professor, Ramapo College, New Jersey, USA, and is a member of the editorial board of Disability and the Global South Journal.
  • Carolina Vallejo, BA in Philosophy and History of Ideas and co-coordinator and researcher of the Working Group Critical Studies on Disability of CLACSO. She is currently pursuing a postgraduate degree in Philosophy at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico. She has specialized diplomas in disability issues and has taught the first course on critical and interdisciplinary thinking on “dis-disability” in the Specialized Studies Program of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. She is also coordinator of the Seminar of Critical and Interdisciplinary Studies on “dis-disability” at the Autonomous University of Mexico City.
  • Luis Vera, sociologist, coordinator of the Unit of Support to Functional Diversity of the University of Chile and expert by experience of the Millennium Nucleus DISCA.

The discussion was moderated by Juan Pino, principal investigator of the DISCA Millennium Nucleus and academic at the Universidad de O’Higgins.

The activity took place on Thursday, June 15, 2023, at 18:00 hours (GMT-4), through Zoom and is available at https://youtu.be/ijZyf2E89LU

The video features Chilean sign language interpretation and simultaneous subtitling.

This conversation was sponsored by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (Clacso).