The CitPro team hosted an international symposium, ‘Everyday Citizenship and Persons with Disabilities: Pasts, Presents, Futures,' on October 4th and 5th, 2023, at VID Specialized University, campus Oslo.

The symposium aimed to bring together knowledge-makers from the fields of disability, dementia, and citizenship studies to discuss historical and current trends in understanding and applications of everyday citizenship in relation to persons with disabilities, including people with dementia.

Keynote speakers:

Sonali Shah, Associate Professor in Disability and Life Course Research, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK

Katie Aubrecht, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Canada Research Chair Health Equity and Social Justice, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Christine Kelly, Associate Professor, Max Rady College of Medicine, Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Canada

Elizabeth Tilley, Professor of Learning Disability Studies, The Open University, UK

James Rupert Fletcher, Wellcome Trust fellow, The University of Manchester

International Symposium Everyday Citizenship and Persons with Disabilities: Pasts, Presents, Futures (2023)

International Symposium 'Creative Methods in Participatory Research: Disability and Citizenship' (2022)

Photo exhibition “Ulike hverdagsliv”

CitPro celebrates the International Day of Persons with Disabilities