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Research Seminar Series - Eric Story
"Before Civil Rights: Locating the Origins of Disability Rights Activism in Canadian History"
Historians have typically located the origins of the disability rights movement in the 1960s amidst the broader global movement for civil rights. But the history of disability rights activism predates this Cold War-era social movement by several decades. In examining the records of two disability-based advocacy groups after the First World War, Eric Story will share some of his preliminary thoughts on the beginnings of disability rights activism in Canadian history.
Eric Story is Historian-in Residence in the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry and a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History at Western. His research examines the legacies of war and trauma in the early twentieth century.
For more information about the Research Seminar Series, please visit: https://history.uwo.ca/about_us/events/research_seminar_series.html