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ADA Live! Podcast to Feature Sen. Tom Harkin on July 3

Sen. Tom Harkin
Sen. Tom Harkin

The Hon. Tom Harkin—former Senator and Congressman, veteran, author, attorney and chief sponsor of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA)—will be the featured guest on the July 3, broadcast of ADA Live! , a podcast produced by the Syracuse University Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) and Southeast ADA Center. University Professor Peter Blanck, chairman of BBI, will interview Sen. Harkin in celebration of the 29th anniversary of this historic civil rights legislation.

Harkin served Iowa in the U.S. Senate from 1984 until his retirement in January 2015, making him the longest serving Democratic senator from his state. Previously, Harkin served 10 years in the U.S. House of Representatives representing Iowa’s fifth congressional district. He is now senior advisor to the Harkin Institute for Public Policy and Citizen Engagement at Drake University, Des Moines, IA. Continue Reading

BBI welcomes International Visiting Fellow Benoit Eyraud

May 12, 2019
Benoît Eyraud, has been appointed a Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) Visiting Fellow. May 21 – June 10, Benoît Eyraud will be visiting BBI and attending events in Syracuse, NY.Benoît Eyraud is a senior lecturer at the University of Lyon, a team member of POCO (Policies of Knowledge) at the Centre Max Weber and a delegation researcher at the Study Centre for social movements (CNRS/EHESS/Paris). Continue Reading

BBI Chairman Peter Blanck featured on “Story in the Public Square,” public affairs television series, PBS podcast and SiriusXM Satellite radio

May 6, 2019
On May 12, 2019, Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) Chairman Peter Blanck is featured on “Story in the Public Square” a public affairs television series and podcast. The Telly Award-winning PBS and SiriusXM Satellite radio show is co-hosted by Jim Ludes and G. Wayne Miller. Story in the Public Square is a weekly podcast brought to listeners by Salve Regina University’s Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy. It features interviews with leading print, screen, music and other storytellers about their creative processes and how their stories impact public understanding and policy. Story in the Public Square’s messaging aligns with the BBI’s vision for accessible communities fully including persons with disabilities.

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Southeast ADA Center Announces New Webinar Series: Advancing Equal Employment Opportunities and Creating Inclusive Workplaces

April 20, 2019
This eight-part webinar series will build awareness of Employment First. The series will feature a variety of topics for supported employment providers, vocational rehabilitation professionals, self-advocates, and families. Each webinar will embrace APSE’s vision, mission and values, and provide tools and resources that can be used to advance equal employment opportunities for people with disabilities.
Dates [8 webinars]: April 2019 – February 2020
[attend as many as you want]

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Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach co-sponsors Spring Teaching Conference with Jay Dolmage

Moments and Modalities of Access: Composing Disability

In composition’s history as a remedial space, or as a sorting gate, from Harvard in the 1870s to CUNY in the 1970s, composition grew and contracted in ways that formed boundaries around bodies. These two major “foundational moments” in composition’s history were profoundly about diversity. They were also profoundly shaped by disability — disability helped to reshape the modalities of teaching in our field. It makes sense that this reshaping would continue in an era of multimodal and mediated composition. In this presentation, Dolmage considers whether disability is truly reshaping multimodal composition, or whether it is simply being accommodated out of this design process.

Apr 4, 2019 at 2:00 PM – 3:20 PM
Kilian Room, 500 Hall of Languages

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Review of BBI Senior Fellow Larry Logue’s Book: Fighting in the Shadows by Common Reader.

April 2, 2019

Larry Logue

Who knew? Who knew that the designer of the first Confederate national flag was a deaf immigrant from Prussia? The Roar of the War For Those Who Could Not Hear It: An account of the impact of the Civil War on deaf culture. Read Full Review

Larry M. Logue is a senior fellow at the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University. He is co-author, with Peter Blanck, of Race, Ethnicity, and Disability: Veterans and Benefits in Post-Civil War America (Cambridge University Press, 2010), and Heavy Laden: Union Veterans, Psychological Illness, and Suicide (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

Review of BBI Senior Fellow Larry Logue & BBI’s chairman Peter Blanck’s Book: Heavy Laden: Union Veterans, Psychological Illness, and Suicide by Strategy Page

April 2, 2019

Heavy LadenHeavy Laden, a volume in the “Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series”, is an important read for students of veterans affairs, throwing fresh light on the problems that still affect those who served.Read Full Review

In this work, the authors devoted to the advancement of persons with disabilities, examine the effects of the war on a sampling of Union veterans, both black and white, with particular attention to the suicides now recognized as a frequent result of PTSD.

BBI Chairman Peter Blanck to speak at Washington D.C. Symposium on “Disability Rights: Past, Present, and Future”

Peter Blanck, University Professor and Chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI), will speak at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) Law Review Symposium: “Disability Rights: Past, Present, and Future.” The Symposium is presented by the UDC David A. Clark School of Law in Washington, D.C. People with disabilities, disability rights advocates, practitioners, law professors, law students, legislators, and academics, students, and community members will explore disability law and policy in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the passage of the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA). Continue Reading

BBI (Dis)courses Series Continues March 27, 2019, with Premiere of You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born

(Dis)courses: Interdisciplinary Disability Dialogues—a new multimedia series presented by the Burton Blatt Institute’s (BBI) Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach, in collaboration with the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA)—continues on March 27, 2019, at 7 p.m. in Watson Theater with the Syracuse premiere of the film You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born. Continue Reading

Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach co-hosts 6th “Cripping” the Comic Con at Syracuse University

March 7, 2019

Established in 2013, “Cripping” the Comic Con (“CripCon”) is an interdisciplinary, international symposium that provides participants (including students, faculty, staff, and community members) with the opportunity to engage in a broad array of reflective discussions about perceptions of disability that exist implicitly and explicitly within mainstream popular cultures, particularly comic books, graphic novels, and manga.

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