Resumen
This paper provides a report on first international Disability Studies Summer Institute hosted by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) of the University of Toronto, July, 2011. This report, reflective in character, narrates some ways that the Institute developed a critical understanding of ?disability studies? that enabled attendees to re-encounter current conceptions of ?problem? and of ?people? and to re-think the relations between the two. This report discusses both keynote material and the experience of an evacuation because of a fire during the Institute. My aim is to reveal some of the ways disability is conceptualized, lived, and theorized as food for thought that can lead to further questions regarding the meaning of persons within the human community.