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  1. Online seminar: “Disability and daily mobility”.

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    Descripción de Imagen: Afiche con los logos institucionales de Disca y de #CentrosAnid e iniciativa Milenio, sobre los títulos se lee: “Discapacidad y movilidad cotidiana”, “Ciclo de Seminarios en Línea”, además de los rostros de los tres expositores junto a sus nombres y cargos. Al centro un recuadro con las indicaciones del evento: Jueves 31 de agosto, 19:00 hrs.

    • The seminar will address the ways in which disability is understood by our transportation and planning systems.
    • Three researchers will examine the adaptations and efforts that people with disabilities make on a daily basis to move around urban and rural areas, as well as the injustices that persist in national mobility infrastructures and policies.

    In response to the question “What costs do people with disabilities assume when moving around the territory?”, the DISCA Millennium Nucleus has invited three researchers to investigate experiences, organizations, policies and research on the daily mobility of people with disabilities.

    We will be joined by Mariela Gaete Reyes, an academic from the Housing Institute of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Chile. She is dedicated to research on accessibility and disability and to teaching in the Architecture program, in the Master in Residential Habitat and in the Doctorate in Territory, Space and Society, a program in which she is part of the academic committee.

    The sociologist Diego Solsona, Master in Social Research and Development from the Universidad de Concepción and Doctor of Social Sciences in Territorial Studies from the Universidad de los Lagos, will also present. He works as a postdoctoral researcher in the Anillos project “Territorial Inequalities”. He is also a collaborating professor in the anthropology program at the Universidad de Los Lagos. His main lines of research are: spatial mobilities, citizen participation and social imaginaries in people with disabilities.

    In addition, DISCA researcher Daniel Muñoz, PhD in Human Geography (University of Edinburgh), Master in Urban Development (PUC) will present his work. He is a postdoctoral researcher at the Housing Institute of the University of Chile. His research focuses on everyday mobility practices of people with disabilities, with attention to care and interdependence. Methodologically, Daniel specializes in ethnography and ethnomethodological video analysis.

    If you would like to attend, register at this link. 

  2. DISCA Nucleus call for papers on “The representation of disability”

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    The DISCA Millennium Nucleus is pleased to invite the academic community to submit their proposals for presentations for our next seminar entitled “The Representation of Disability in Policy and Research”. The event will take place on October 12, 2023 at the Universidad Austral de Chile, Campus Isla Teja, Valdivia, Chile, in face-to-face mode.

    We seek to generate an academic, rigorous and diverse dialogue about disability in general and the issue of disability representation in policy and academic research. In addition, we seek to generate a meeting space for people who research on disability.

    The seminar will have two parts: the first will address the particular issue of disability representation in policy and research. The second part will be open to the presentation of research on disability in various topics related to the work of Núcleo DISCA.

    Check the complete rules by clicking on this link.

  3. Núcleo DISCA starts course “Introduction to Disability Studies”

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    This Tuesday, August 8, we started the first undergraduate course that the Disca Millennium Nucleus together with the School of Sociology UDP is carrying out at the capital city of the Diego Portales University. 

    The course called “Introduction to Disability Studies” is led by the Director of the DISCA Millennium Nucleus, Florencia Herrera, along with a wide range of researchers and experts from the experience of the Nucleus. 

    In this opportunity we were accompanied by researcher Jaime Ramirez with a presentation on “What do we talk about when we talk about disability”. We had the attendance of 65 people, of which 35 were students and 30 were external listeners. Likewise, we recognized more than 30 people with disabilities -both in the classroom and telematic modality- which is why we are very happy for the wide reception and interest that this course has awakened in the community.