UNDER DECONSTRUCTION
Centre for Equity in Health and Society (CEHS):
Award for Self-help Organizing Against Oppressive Systems
1. Making Connections in Student Mental Health Conference,
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, and April 27th, 2006:
Panel - Students Engaging Students.
2. Canadian Disability Studies Association 3rd Annual Conference,
York University, Toronto, Ontario, May 27-28, 2006:
a) Panel - Crossroads: History, Policy and Disability Perspectives of
Mad Students in Post Secondary Education.
b) Panel- Radical Rants: Challenges in Teaching the History of Madness.
3. Conference: "Illusions of Identity: resisting (beyond) Identity Politics" Interdisciplinary Graduate Students' Conference:
University of Western Ontario October 14-15, 2006
Paper: "The Madwoman's Howl: (In)Coherence as Strategy for
Identity/Resistance"
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York University |
January, 2006 |
Presentation: Identity Diversity and Anti Discriminatory Practice |
| Ryerson | April 5, 2006 | Student-run society created to help psychiatric survivors. |
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Ryerson |
May 4, 2006 |
Article in Ryersonian discussing MSS recruitment on university and college campuses. |
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University of Toronto, |
November, 2006 |
Presentation: Cultural Studies SOC360Y1 |
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Ryerson University |
November, 2006 |
Presentation: A Mad People's History |
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OISE |
November 30, 2006 |
Endorsed Bonnie Burstow's proposed scholarship for anti psychiatry scholarship |
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York University |
January 9, 2007 |
Presentation: Identity Diversity and Anti Discriminatory Practice |
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York University |
January 11, 2007 |
Presentation: Health and Society Seminar |
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University of Toronto |
January, 24th 2007 |
Presentation: Counseling and Learning Skills Service |
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Community |
March 11, 2007 |
Formation of the Mad Students Guerillas, "a political offshoot of MSS that does targeted action". |
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Ryerson |
March 30, 2007 |
MSS on Ryerson's anti psychiatry radio. |
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Community |
July, 2007 |
CANWAPSS (Canada-Wide Accessibility for Post-Secondary Students) Simply People Event at Nathan Philips Square |
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York University |
October, 2007 |
Presentation: Undergraduate Social Work Class. |
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Ontario Institute of Technology |
October, 2007 |
An MSS trip to Durham to visit OIT College in order to make connections and partnerships with Durham students. |
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York University |
November 7, 2007 |
Letter to the Editor published in Excalibur in reply to "face to face with mental illness". |
The Centre for Women and Trans People, York University |
February 8, 2008 | Member of MSS participated in a panel discussion: "Institutionalization of Silence: the Academy as Site of Trauma" |
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York University |
March 3, 2008 |
Presentation: "Madness in the Classroom" Masters Social work - mental health class. |
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Staff
Workshop |
June 5, 2008 |
Presentation: The role of disability advisers and counselors in post-secondary institutions |
NEADS Conference, Ottawa |
November 16, 2008 |
Workshop: The Emergence of "Crazy" Students in the Academy: The Mad Students Society |
George Brown College |
December, 2008 | Presentation to Redirection Through Education program. |
Students Advocating for Mental Health Awareness, University of Toronto Scarborough |
January 15, 2009 | Presentation: Alternatives to the medical model understanding of madness. |