Coding-Decoding-Recoding

University of Guelph

March 14th, 2019 12.30 - 13.30: Why Stories Matter, How Stories Move

Carla Rice is Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Guelph, specializing in disability and embodiment studies and in arts-based and research creation methodologies. In 2012, she founded the Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice as an arts-informed research creation centre with a mandate to foster inclusive communities, social well-being, equity, and justice. She currently is principal investigator of Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology and Access to Life, a multi-year, multi-site disability arts grant, which she co-directs with Dr. Eliza Chandler. She has received awards for advocacy, research, and mentorship has published books, articles, and reports on embodied difference, non-normative cultures, and practices of accessibility and inclusion.

More information about Bodies in Translation can be found at: https://bodiesintranslation.ca/; about the Re•Vision Centre for Art and Social Justice, at: https://projectrevision.ca/

Regna Darnell is Distinguished University Professor Emerita and Research Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Western with ongoing cross-appointments to Theory and Criticism, Women's Studies and Public Health. She is General Editor of a SSHRC Partnership Grant to prepare a documentary edition of the professional papers of Franz Boas, the founder of Americanist Anthropology. Her community-based collaborative fieldwork with Indigenous peoples in Canada has focused on Cree in Northern Alberta, Anishinaabeg in southern Ontario, and Kwakwaka'wakw and Interior Salish in B.C. She was the founding director of Western's First Nations Studies program. Her publications range across history of anthropology, linguistic anthropology, First Nations health and well-being, narrative theory, and bridging Indigenous and Western knowledges. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the American Philosophical Society.