New Report Published:

Ferri, D., McDonough, T. & Palladino, A. (2024). Qualitative Data Collection and Archiving in the DANCING Project (16 December 2024). 

Link to accessible versions of the executive summary of the report, ‘Qualitative Data Collection and Archiving in the DANCING Project’

New Cartoon: 

DANCING Research Dissemination

Accessible Versions of Cartoon ‘DANCING Research Dissemination’

Blog Post Published on ‘Diritti Comparati’:

The G7 ‘Solfagnano Charter’: What Is It Telling Us about the Global Trajectory of Disability Rights?

By Prof. Delia Ferri

Conference Presentation:

DANCING Team Present at the Irish Association of Law Teachers (IALT) Annual Conference.

Presentation:

Prof. Delia Ferri presents the DANCING Project at ‘Tell ALL’ Talk.  The presentation was entitled ‘DANCING Through the Final Year: Challenges and Perspectives of My ERC Project’.

Conference Presentation:

D. Ferri presented ‘The Transformative Power of EU Disability Law’ at the Third Annual Conference of the Jean Monnet Chair on the Transformative Power of Law of the European Union hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of Murcia, Spain.

Blog Post Published on ‘Diritti Comparati’:

Taking Cultural Participation of Persons with Disabilities Seriously: The New Spanish Law on Higher Education

By Prof. Delia Ferri

Blog Post Published on ‘Ideas in ALL’ to Celebrate the First International Day of the Intangible Cultural Heritage:

At Their Fingertips: The First International Day of Intangible Cultural Heritage

By Eva Sophie Krolla

Seminar Presentation:

D. Ferri presented ‘Scrivere e Gestire un Progetto Europeo ERC. Presentazione del Progetto ERC ‘Protecting the Right to Culture of Persons with Disabilities and Enhancing Cultural Diversity through European Union Law: Exploring New Paths’’ at the seminar hosted by Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy.

New Addition to Team DANCING:

Alessia Palladino joins the team as a research assistant.

New Article Published:

Ferri, D., Tekuchova, I., & Krolla, E. (2024). Between disability and culture: The search for a legal taxonomy of sign languages in the European Union.  International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 73(3), 669–706.

Link to accessible infographic on the article “Between Disability and Culture: The Search for a legal taxonomy of sign languages in the European Union”

Event: 

DANCING Academic Workshop with  Keynote Speaker Prof. Cora True-Frost from Syracuse University, USA at Maynooth University.

Conference Presentation:

D. Ferri presented ‘Taking Stock of the EU Marrakesh Directive: Advancing Disability Rights and Enhancing Cultural Diversity in One Go?’ at the panel “Copyright and culture: access, heritage, diversity, education” at the 19th Annual Conference of the European Policy for Intellectual Property Association (EPIP) hosted by Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.

Conference Presentations:

Four members of the DANCING Team presented at the UACES Conference in Trento, Italy.

Conference Presentation:

D. Ferri chaired and A. Leahy and L. Urzel Francil presented papers at the panel ‘Realizing Inclusive Equality for Persons with Disabilities:  Socio-legal Perspectives on Barriers, Digital challenges, and Facilitators of Cultural Participation’ at the 2024 ICON•S Annual Conference, ‘The Future of Public Law: Resilience, Sustainability, and Artificial Intelligence’ hosted by IE University, Madrid, Spain.

Read more about DANCING at the ICON-s conference.  

Conference Presentation:

D. Ferri chaired and E. Krolla and I. Tekuchova presented papers at the Panel ‘The Future of Disability Rights: Regional Trends and Intersectional Perspectives’ at the 2024 ICON•S Annual Conference, ‘The Future of Public Law: Resilience, Sustainability, and Artificial Intelligence’ hosted by IE University, Madrid, Spain.

Read more about DANCING at the ICON-s conference.

Event:

DANCING Academic Conversation with Profs Eliantonio, Korkea-aho and Mӧrth to Discuss their Recent Co-edited Volume ‘Research Handbook on Soft Law’ Published by Edward Elgar in 2023.

Blog Post Published on ‘Ideas in ALL’:

‘Lived Fiction’ Goes on Stage: Reflecting on a Major Milestone for the DANCING Project and the Collaboration with Stopgap

by Eva Sophie Krolla in Dialogue with Prof. Delia Ferri and Lucy Glover, Executive Producer at Stopgap Dance Company

Conference Presentations:

D. Ferri and A. Leahy Presented ‘Barriers and Facilitators to Cultural Participation by People with Disabilities: A Socio-legal Analysis’ at the Annual Conference of The Socio-legal Studies Association, Hosted by the University of Portsmouth, UK.

New Article Published:

Leahy, A., & Ferri, D. (2024).  Rethinking and advancing a ‘bottom-up’ approach to cultural participation of persons with disabilities as key to realising inclusive equality.  International Journal of Law in Context, 20(2), 267–285.

Blog Post Published on ‘Ideas In All’:

Creating an Accessible Survey for the DANCING Project

By Hilary Hooks