This is how we survive: Researching together towards more possible futures

Date: Monday, March 17
Time: 3-4:40 pm
Location: Goodspeed Theatre, Edwards School of Business

This event is free and open to the public.

Please note that all attendees will be asked to wear masks at this event and masks will be provided. We thank you for your care and cooperation!

About this event

It’s hard to write a catchy abstract in a moment of mounting grief and fear. So many of the initiatives, and places, and people I love are increasingly under threat. Dr. Danielle Peers finds themselves surrounded by arguments over strategy: Is retreating underground giving up? Is adapting our approaches selling out? Is resisting at all costs too costly?

The stakes of getting it wrong feel high: in terms of both harms to, and exile from, our communities. Peers doesn't know what we should do. The last ten years of collaborative intersectional research, however, have taught Peers a little bit about some of the hows through which we might proceed.

This talk draws on deeply embodied methodologies of thinking and making and moving alongside diverse scholars and community leaders of the Re-Creation Collective, the Just Movements CreateSpace, and the Maskwacis Disability Futures Project. It draws on intergenerational, interdisciplinary, and cross-community knowledge about how we might build personal and collective spaces for creativity, grief, learning, longing, planning, and even flourishing—together, across difference—from the edges of survival.

Danielle Peers is a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Disability and Movement Cultures in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport and Recreation at the University of Alberta. They study how embodied practices and movement cultures (including art, recreation, and sport) can be used to transmit and transform a community’s values, politics, and inequities. Mobilizing embodied disability justice approaches, Danielle prioritizes deep, intersectional collaborations, in order to co-create knowledges and practices that reduce harm and create more accessible, affirming, and transformative communities. Danielle currently serves as the University of Alberta’s Academic Lead, Disability Cultures and Access.

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