Wednesday, October 18th, 2023 Organizing for Survival: Disability Advocacy during Russia's War Against Ukraine, from refugees to veterans

DateTimeLocation
Wednesday, October 18, 202312:00PM - 1:30PMOnline Event, This was an Online Event

Description

Virtual Event presented by the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine and the Centre for Global Disability Studies at the University of Toronto

 

Disability advocacy is an often-overlooked arena of human rights civic organizing. This roundtable brings together three researchers with new and on-the-ground knowledge of the impacts of the war on disability advocacy and policy and on disabled people and their families. Drawing on expertise, research, and activism, panelists will discuss experiences of wounded Ukrainian soldiers; the impact of the war on disabled civilians and how disability advocacy networks and organizations led by disabled people have responded, in both Ukraine and in neighboring Poland to support disabled refugees. Taken together, a new picture of disability experience in war time begins to emerge, as well as a deeply changed political landscape for disability advocacy. What are the lived experiences of living with or acquiring disability in Ukraine (or of fleeing Ukraine) in war time? How are disability advocacy leaders understanding the task at hand? What is needed now? What global networks or historical examples are useful in a situation like this one?

Contact

Olga Kesarchuk (olga.kesarchuk@utoronto.ca)
416-946-8938

Speakers

Dr. Magdalena Szarota
Speaker
Department of Sociology, Lancaster University Researcher and expert in human rights advocacy. Researching response to disability refugee crisis caused by the Russian invasion to Ukraine.

Hanna Zaremba
Speaker
Department of Social Anthropology, Ethnology Institute of Ukraine; Researcher studying Ukrainian disability activism in the context of the 2022 invasion

Ivan Shmatko
Speaker
Department of Sociology, University of Alberta; Researcher conducting a project on experiences of wounded Ukrainian soldiers as part of the veteran human rights organization Pryntsyp.

Dr. Cassandra Hartblay
Chair
CERES and Centre for Global Disability Studies, University of Toronto

Main Sponsor

Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine

Co-Sponsors

Centre for Global Disability Studies

Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine

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