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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="https://ada.osu.edu/ada-conference"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="67" height="62" style="width:.6979in;height:.6458in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D849E2.FE5A0AA0" alt="A multicolored graphic giving the impression of a flower that depicts the multiple overlapping identities of individuals. Long Description: 10 small circles, each a different color, surround a larger circle comprised of the colors of the surrounding circles as overlapping translucent disks forming blended hues in the shape of petals. The labels for the10 small circles are DISABILTY, RACE, GENDER, EHNICITY, SEX & SEXUALITY, RELIGION, REGION, CLASS & CASTE, INCOME & WEALTH, AND "MANY OTHER IDENTITIES""></span></a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:24.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://ada.osu.edu/multiple-perspectives-conference/2022-conference">Multiple Perspectives on Access Inclusion & Disability</a>
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& 12, 2022. 30 concurrent sessions & <b>2 free public lectures</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Monday, April 11th 4:00-5:45 PM EST
<i><a href="https://osu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yr0tJV2XS7-nBjG8X2JHrQ">“So Much Has Changed, So Much is the Same”<span style="font-weight:normal">,</span></a></i> John Wodatch<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<a href="https://osu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-xESPdAQQ_iiobzhoCGH_g">“A Conversation with Emily Ladau: The Power of Owning Our Narratives and Sharing Our Stories”</a> Emily Ladau & Kayden Gill
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><a href="http://www.rampyourvoice.com/black-history-month-2017-johnnie-lacy-defiantly-black-disabled/">Johnnie Lacy</a>, a civil rights activist described as defiantly
black and disabled commented on her identity:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">“If I were just a woman, he could not do this to me; if I were only a person of color, he would not be able to do this to me; my conclusion was that the only reason
that you are able to take this unfair advantage is because I also have a disability.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">“My own personal identity is very much tied into who I am as a woman of color and as a disabled person, and I try not to distinguish between the three identities anymore”. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">These quotes from capture the flavor the theme for the 2022 Multiple Perspectives Conference “The Zen of Venn”. The 22<sup>nd</sup> annual conference continues
Ohio State Univiersity’s ongoing </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">exploration of disability as a reflection of the human condition; a lived experience seen through multiple lenses of identity, work, school, human rights, theory, media, relationships
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Liz Persaud. April 14, 2022 from 2 - 3:30 P.M. Eastern. (<a href="https://miamioh.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jvhTrglZQaG417NtYuFUag">Virtual</a>, Free)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">This year’s keynote speaker is Liz Persaud, the Program and Outreach Manager for Tools for Life, Georgia’s Assistive Technology Act Program at the Center for Inclusive
Design and Innovation at Georgia Tech University. Persaud will be presenting <i>
Across the Table - Strategies and Solutions for Living in a Collective Community</i>. In this session, Persaud will explore and share the collective role each of us play in promoting successful independent living beyond the everyday “typical” environments for
individuals with disabilities. This event is free and open is open to all.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Maria Galmarini<span style="color:black"> </span>April 18 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm<span style="color:black"> Eastern
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<span style="color:black">In the late 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, spectacular accomplishments in space research sharpened public awareness of technological progress and the ways in which it could be harnessed by the two competing blocs of a divided
world. Among the many communities that began to reflect on the meaning and impact of technology on their lives were also disability activists. Welcoming the advantages that technology could bring to people with disabilities, they immediately recognized that
these advantages would never materialize without international cooperation. More than in any other area of technological development, as these activists argued, the design and production of assistive technology required the overcoming of geopolitical rivalries
and the pooling of resources. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">In the paper that will be discussed at this event, Professor Maria Galmarini focuses on the collaboration projects undertaken in the 1970s and early 1980s by an organization of blind advocacy called European Regional Committee of the
World Council for the Welfare of the Blind (ERC). As a pan-European agency that included members from both sides of Cold War Europe, the ERC conceptualized technology as a neutral field of work, in which Western and Eastern blind activists could exchange knowledge
across national and ideological borders. Its members succeeded in creating a network of contacts that connected European research centers and manufactures of auxiliary equipment for the blind. However, the effectiveness of their cooperation was also fundamentally
limited by the political realities of the Cold War. Through an analysis of the rich historical archive of the ERC in connection with archival materials from the All-Russian Society of the Blind and the East German Union of the Blind, this paper offers new
insights on the relationship between disability activism, assistive technology, and Cold War politics. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Maria Cristina Galmarini</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span style="color:black">is Associate Professor of History and Global Studies
at William & Mary. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and, before coming to Williamsburg in 2017, held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University and an Assistant Professor position at James Madison University.
She is the author of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Right to Be Helped: Deviance, Entitlement, and the Soviet Moral Order</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Northern Illinois
University Press, 2016). She also published articles in the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Bulletin of the History of Medicine</span></em>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The
Slavic Review</span></em>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Historical Research</span></em>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">European
History Quarterly</span></em>, and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Russian Review</span></em>. Galmarini has won the Disability History Association’s award for best published article in the
field of Disability History in 2018. Her current research explores the history of international blind activism during the Cold War. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">This event will be held virtually as a <a href="https://nyu.zoom.us/j/95751794195"><span style="color:#0088CC">Zoom meeting</span></a> for non-NYU affiliates. NYU affiliates my attend the event
in person at the Jordan Center. </span></strong><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Please reach out to
<a href="mailto:jordan.russia.center@nyu.edu"><span style="font-weight:normal">jordan.russia.center@nyu.edu</span></a> for a copy of the work being discussed at this event.</span></i></strong><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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