On 22 November, Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Director of Research and Disability Studies, presented “The Rights of Special Education Students” at the conference “For a Comprehensive Education.” The conference was hosted by the Halabja Disabled Organization (HDO) and funded by fida, a Finnish NGO that supports community development....
On 17 November, 2021, Dr. Choman Hardi facilitated a poetry workshop for women in Sulaimani as part of a conference on gender and the use of arts-based methods to understand conflict, prevent violence, and build peace. She also gave a poetry reading on 18 November, the last day of the...
On 12 November 2021, Dr. Shakir, AUIS Instructor in English and Social Sciences and the spring 2021 CGDS Jan Warner Visiting Scholar, and Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Director of Research and Disability Studies, presented a panel session on disability and diversity at the 6 th World Disability and...
“Same Blood Same Bone Same Life’: Disability Advocacy in Mogadishu” appears in the fall 2021 Disability History Association News. Dr. Lynn, CGDS Director of Research and Disability Studies, traveled to Mogadishu, Somalia, in March 2021, and met with three disability advocacy organizations there. CGDS is an institutional member of the...
On 8 November 2021, Dr. Choman Hardi, CGDS Director, spoke at a panel session. “The Future of Iraq,” held via Zoom by the Aspen Initiative in the UK. Ambassador Mark Bryson-Richardson, the UK Ambassador to Iraq, joined the panel, among others, and Chloe Cornish, the Financial Times correspondent for the...
Dr. Choman Hardi accepted an invitation from the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Germany, to speak about the Anfal Genocide on 26 October 2021. Her talk was the first in a series of talks for the project “Gathering the Dispersed.” The audience included the Transcultural Studies research group, as well...
