2012 Canadian Disability Studies Association Conference
On May 30, May 31, and June 1, 2012, the 9th Annual Canadian Disability Studies Association Conference will be held in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, at the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University in conjunction with the annual Congress of the Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Congress 2012 theme is “Crossroads: Scholarship for an Uncertain World.”
Abstracts are due at 4:00 p.m. EST on December 2.
More information can be found at http://www.cdsa-acei.ca/conference.html
CFP: Representing the Body in Culture and Society
CFP: Proteus: A Journal of Ideas seeks submissions for our upcoming issue, “Representing the Body in Culture and Society.” We are soliciting articles and creative works from a wide range of disciplines that reflect upon the issue’s theme. We are particularly interested in work that focuses on the body from a Disability Studies perspective, though submissions from all disciplines are welcome. We are looking for broad theoretical inquiries, individual case studies, and traditional scholarly articles on the subject of the body, as well as theme-related photographs, poetry, and creative writing.
Full Essays Due by January 15, 2012.
Submit them electronically (MS Word preferred) to proteus@ship.edu
Call for Abstracts: Race, Ethnicity, and Disabilities Conference
Call for abstracts is now open for the Race, Ethnicity, and Disabilities: State of the Science Conference March 1 – 2, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia. The deadline is December 15 (12/15/11).
This conference is hosted by Virginia Commonwealth University and is a great opportunity for professionals in the fields of rehabilitation, physical therapy, disability research, psychology, or any related field. In addition to our numerous presentations by internationally recognized invited speakers, there will be a poster session on March 1.
Conference Goals
- To advance the state of the science of disability research involving racial and ethnic minorities by identifying, analyzing, and synthesizing current evidence-based strategies being utilized.
- To build capacity of researchers dedicated to engaging in minority disability methodologies, and recruitment methods relevant to underserved populations.
- To foster networking and communication between researchers, students, clinicians, funding organizations, journal editors, and consumers interesting in improving disability research and services for racial and ethnic minorities.
Who Should Attend
This conference is intended for multidisciplinary rehabilitation professionals including physicians, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, rehabilitation nurses, psychologists, rehabilitation case managers, rehabilitation counselors, disability specialists, other professionals serving the field of rehabilitation medicine, and researchers studying minorities with disabilities.
Cripples, Idiots, Lepers, and Freaks: Extraordinary Bodies / Extraordinary Minds
Thursday, March 22 – Friday, March 23, 2012
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
http://esaconference2012.wordpress.com/
Could disability be, as Susan Wendell writes, “valued for itself, or for the different knowledge, perspective, and experience of life” it gives rise to? This conference seeks to continue—and to expand—conversations about the cultural meanings and possibilities of impairment, as well as the ways that the disabled body becomes a locus for uneasy collaborations and tensions between the social and the scientific. What critical and theoretical perspectives can be brought to bear on human variations that are, or have been, subject to medical authority or understood as requiring intervention? Emphasizing an interdisciplinary approach to “disability,” we seek papers from graduate students across the humanities (English, art history, music, etc.), social sciences (history, sociology, political science, etc.), and applied fields (law, education, medicine, etc.). We welcome papers on topics ranging from the aesthetics of illness in medieval literature to the politics of disability in South Park, from the cultural fascination with autistic savants to race, impairment, and spectatorship in freak shows.
Possible paper topics include:
Genre, Aesthetics, and Disability: poetics; visual art, photography, and spectatorship; life writing and illness narratives; metaphors and representations of disability; disability and performance; “outsider art”; impairment and artistic production; comedy and disability
Pedagogy and Disability: teaching disabled authors; writing the body; student embodiments, teacher embodiments; “coming out” and “passing”; disability and composition studies; “special” education
Sexuality, Desire, and Disability: pleasure and the extraordinary body; voyeurism; fetishism; freak shows; sexual practices; queering disability
Epistemology, Subjectivity, and Disability: genius and savantism; the body in pain; affect; “terminal” illnesses; acquired impairments, congenital impairments; stigma and otherness; autistic minds; mental “illness” / mental “health”; trauma, violence, and disability
Intersections of Identity: masculinity and disability; femininity and disability; pregnancy, motherhood, and impairment; race and disability; class and disability; queer identities and disability
History of/and Disability: historicizing disability; historically specific impairments (e.g. hysteria); period-specific studies of disability (e.g. early modern); eugenics; race and/as impairment; evolution and “degeneration”; taxonomy and natural history
Medicine, Science, and Impairment: medicalizations of race, class, sex, body size; addiction and disability; medical and scientific discourse; doctor / patient interactions; concepts and problems of the “cure”; diagnostic manuals and other taxonomies; the human / animal divide
Disability Activism / (Bio)politics: rhetorics of “disability”; activist art; reproductive rights; genetics and eugenics; euthanasia; healthcare; war, disability, and the making of populations; impairment-specific campaigns and organizations
Technology and the Impaired Body: technologies of reproduction; cyborgs; prosthesis; body augmentation / body modification
Please submit 250- to 500-word abstracts to ESAConference2012@gmail.com by December 5, 2011.
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The conference, sponsored by the English Student Association of the CUNY Graduate Center, will feature concurrent graduate panels on the afternoon of Thursday, March 22, and all day on Friday, March 23.
The keynote address on Friday evening will be delivered by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Jasbir Puar will serve as respondent. On Thursday evening a plenary panel will discuss the present and future of Disability Studies; plenary panel members include CUNY scholars Sarah Chinn (English, Hunter College), Ruth O’Brien (political science, the Graduate Center), Victoria Pitts-Taylor (sociology, Queens College and the Graduate Center), Talia Schaffer (English, Queens College and the Graduate Center), and Joseph Straus (music, the Graduate Center).
All conference events will take place at the CUNY Graduate Center in midtown Manhattan.
If you have any questions, please email the conference co-chairs, Marissa Brostoff, Andrew Lucchesi, and Emily B. Stanback at ESAConference2012@gmail.com.
Call for Presentation Proposals:
Disability Law Symposium – Mar. 22-23, 2012 @ UC, Berkeley Boalt Hall
“Rebranding Disability Law: The Intersection of Disability with Gender, Race,
Class and Other Identities”
http://berkeleydisabilityrights.tumblr.com
Co-sponsors (partial list): Boalt Disability Law Society; Berkeley Journal of
Gender, Law & Justice; Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice;
Disability Rights, Education & Defense Fund;
UC, Berkeley Disability Studies Program, UC, Berkeley Arts and Humanities
Division, California Law Review
Our focus is on the intersection of disability and other civil rights constructs
such as gender, sexuality, class, race, ethnicity and religion. Presentations
should be grounded in law (rights, discrimination, equity) and/or public policy.
Our goal is to “re-brand” the field of Disability Rights to encourage students
to think of this (1) as a subset of the broader civil rights movement and (2) as
part of the larger disability-related disciplines at the University.
The tentative format will be a Thursday late afternoon keynote address by Samuel
Bagenstos (“Olmstead, Race, and Class”) after introductory remarks by Arlene
Mayerson. Friday will include 3 panels of speakers (themes, speakers & formats
TBD) and a lunchtime keynote address by Carrie Griffin Basas (“HIV
Stigma/Seuality) Stigma”). On Thursday evening there will be an informal
discussion forum on current legal and policy issues and on Friday a reception
will be held at the Ed Roberts Campus after closing remarks.
We are seeking approximately 9 presenters in addition to our keynoters, with the
hope that each panel will have a common theme. (Proposals can be either for a
single speaker or for a speaker and 1 or 2
respondents/discussants). The Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice will
publish suitable symposium papers, but it is not required that presenters also
submit a paper. Please email a 2-3 paragraph abstract to srosenbaum@law.berkeley.eduno
later than November 16, 2011 and indicate whether you intend to submit a paper
for publication. We regret that we cannot guarantee funds for travel or
accommodations for panelists.
With the recent funding of a Disability Initiative at UC, Berkeley, the opening
of the Ed Roberts Campus in Berkeley, and the continuing emphasis on clinical
and interdisciplinary legal education, we hope this symposium will solidify the
importance of Disability Rights within the curriculum at BerkeleyLaw and sister
law schools. We look forward to your proposals.
Thank you.
Plannning/Advisory Committee
Mary Lou Breslin, Claudia Center, Samantha Groden, Arlene Mayerson, Katy Merk,
Francis Nugent, Victoria Plaut, Stephen Rosenbaum, Sue Schweik, Jonathan Simon,
Shira Wakschlag, Wilda White
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Shira Wakschlag
Attorney | Skadden Fellow
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF)
Ed Roberts Campus
3075 Adeline Street, Suite 210
Berkeley, CA 94703*
*E. swakschlag@dredf.org
V/TTY. 510-644-2555 ext. 5249
F. 510-841-8645
www.dredf.org
Call for Papers: Pacific Rim Conference on Disability and Diversity
March 26 & 27, 2012 • Honolulu, HI: Hawai‘i Convention Center
Disability Studies Topic Area: Intersectionality, Disability Culture, and Global
Change
Disability Studies approaches disability as a social and cultural phenomena in
which localized and global interpretations include socio-cultural, historical,
political and rights-based perspectives.
The Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity topic
area, Disability Studies: Intersectionality, Disability Culture, and Global
Change, seeks to imagine and convey the role of Disability Studies in all areas
of academic scholarship and within cultural, gender, race, and ethnic studies.
We welcome proposals in any area of Disability Studies, including:
– How scholars within and outside of typical disability studies curricula are
incorporating disability studies in teaching and research.
– Current developments and national and global approaches to Disability Studies
programs
– Historical and contemporary perspectives about Disability Studies
– Impact of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities on Disability Studies, Disability Culture, and Global Change
– The role of the Internet and technology, including social networking,
distance learning, Universal Design and online research tools, on Disability
Studies research and dissemination
– How has Disability Studies impacted other disciplines, including feminist and
queer studies, American Studies, sociology, psychology, and other academic
fields
– The ways in which Disability Culture has informed Disability Studies,
cultural, gender, race, ethnic, film, arts & cultural studies
We welcome proposals in any presentation format. Please see presentation formats
on our webpage at
:http://www.pacrim.hawaii.edu/submissions/presenters/formats/.
Please check the criteria for each format and ensure that you have the
appropriate number of presenters for your chosen format. You may submit
proposals online at:
http://www.pacrim.hawaii.edu/submissions
or send your proposals via email to prcall@hawaii.edu.
Disability Studies Topic Flyer (PDF Format) For more information about this
topic area, contact: Megan Conway, mconway@hawaii.edu, 808-956-6166, Steve
Brown, sebrown@hawaii.edu, 808-956-0996, Norma Jean Stodden,
nstodden@hawaii.edu, 808-956-4454, or Holly Manaseri, hmanser@hawaii.edu,
808-956-9218.
For general information on the conference please contact Charmaine Crockett at
ccrocke@hawaii.edu or 808-956-7539. For information on registration please
contact Michael Corlew at prreg@hawaii.edu or 808-956-8816.
Megan A. Conway, Ph.D.,
(RDS)www.rds.hawaii.edu Training Coordinator, OPE/IST Project
www.ist.hawaii.edu Center on Disability Studies, University of
Hawaii at Manoa, 1776 University Avenue, UA 4-6, Honolulu, HI 96822
Office: University Annex 1, Rm 4 Tel: 808-956-6166 Fax: 808-956-7878
Email: mconway@hawaii.edu
