Autreat is a retreat-style conference run by Autism Network International (www.ani.ac), for autistic people and our families, friends, supporters, and interested professionals. We are accepting presentation proposals for Autreat 2010, to be held Monday-Friday, June 28-July 2, 2010, in Bradford, Pennsylvania (approximately 80 miles from the nearest major airport at Buffalo, New York).
FOR HELP PREPARING A PROPOSAL:
If you want to submit a proposal but you have trouble reading these instructions and putting your proposal in the requested format, contact cfp-help (at) autreat.com for help. Please send only plain text
messages, with no attachments.
WHAT KINDS OF WORKSHOPS ARE WANTED AT AUTREAT?
Autreat is very different from typical autism conferences:
WHEN PREPARING A PROPOSAL FOR CONSIDERATION, BE AWARE THAT THE *PRIMARY* AUDIENCE AT AUTREAT IS AUTISTIC PEOPLE.
Parents and professionals do attend, and most who attend find the presentations to be of interest, but Autreat is basically autistic space.
Be sure your information is being presented in a manner that is both helpful to and respectful of autistic people.
We expect that you will be speaking *to* us, not speaking to non-autistic people *about* us.
We are interested in presentations, by either autistic or non-autistic people, about POSITIVE WAYS OF LIVING WITH AUTISM, about functioning as autistic people in a neurotypical world, and about the disability movement and its significance for autistic people.
We are interested in educational and informative presentations, not in sales pitches for a presenter’s products or services. If you are representing a commercial enterprise and would like a forum to sell products or services at Autreat, please contact exhibitors (at) autreat.com for information about attending Autreat as a vendor.
We are *not* interested in presentations about how to cure, prevent, or overcome autism.
We do *not* appreciate having non-autistic people come into our space to talk to each other about how difficult we are to deal with, or how heroic they are for putting up with us.
If your presentation is geared toward the interests of parents or professionals, it should focus on positive ways of appreciating and supporting autistic people, not on reinforcing negative attitudes about autism and autistic people.
AUTREAT AIMS TO BE WELCOMING AND RELEVANT TO THE BROADEST POSSIBLE CROSS-SECTION OF THE AUTISTIC POPULATION.
Autreat is attended by autistic people who speak and by autistic people who do not speak;
by autistic people who communicate fluently and by autistic people who have limited communication;
by autistic people who live independently and by autistic people who need intensive support with daily living;
by autistic people who have jobs and by autistic people who live on disability benefits;
by autistic people who are able to present as "socially acceptable" and by autistic people who require support to help them manage their behavior;
by autistic people who have been labeled "high-functioning" and by autistic people who have been labeled "low-functioning"—including some autistic people who have had *both* labels, at different times or under different circumstances.
While it is not expected that any one presentation will be of interest to each and every autistic person, we do look for presentations that will appeal to the widest possible audience.
We are *not* interested in presentations that reinforce what we consider to be artificial distinctions between members of our community who are labeled "low-" vs."high-functioning."
A NOTE ABOUT "PERSONAL EXPERIENCE" PRESENTATIONS:
Be aware that everyone at Autreat either knows what it's like to be autistic, or knows what it's like to care about someone who is autistic.
All of us have our own personal stories. Presentations about the presenters' personal stories are not going to generate much interest, unless you're able to use your story in a way that will help other people to share and understand their own experiences in a new way.
Your proposal should describe what participants can expect to get out of your presentation, not just what personal experiences you're going to talk about.
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PRESENTATION TOPICS OF INTEREST
Please review the ANI web site (www.ani.ac) and the past Autreat brochures (http://www.ani.ac/past-workshops.htm), to get an idea of ANI's philosophy and what Autreat is about. This will help you create the kind of presentation most likely to interest Autreat participants.
If you have never attended Autreat before, you may wish to consider attending first, before submitting a proposal to give a presentation. In our experience, presentations usually get more positive feedback when presenters have some familiarity with Autreat and its participants, before they give presentations there. Active participation in ANI’s online community, and attendance at other self-advocacy events run by and for autistic people, are other good ways to get a feel for how Autreat is different from typical autism conferences. If you wish to submit a proposal and you’ve never been to Autreat before, please give us as much information as possible about your past experience with other autistic-run activities and events.
WHAT IS EXPECTED OF PRESENTERS?
If you submit a proposal, we expect you to be available to attend Autreat if we accept your proposal, and to give your presentation on the day and time scheduled. We make every effort to accommodate presenters' preferences in setting the Autreat schedule, but it is not always possible to give every presenter his or her preferred time slot.
Presenters are expected to send advance copies of any handouts or slides they plan to use, so that we can prepare alternate format copies for print-impaired attendees.
Presenters are expected to consent for their presentations to be recorded, and for the recordings to be sold by Autism Network International.
Presenters are invited to attend all of Autreat. If presenters opt not to attend the entire event, they are expected to arrive on-site by 8:30 a.m. for afternoon presentations, and to arrive the night before for morning presentations.
Please be prepared to meet these expectations if you decide to submit a proposal.
Presenters are also encouraged to submit an article on their topic for inclusion in the program book. Like handouts and visual aids, articles need to be submitted in a timely manner, so we can prepare copies in alternate formats.
WHAT'S IN IT FOR THE PRESENTERS?
Individual Autreat presenters receive free registration for Autreat, including on-site meals and lodging in a shared (2-person) room. (A private room may be available at the presenter’s own expense.) This free registration is for the presenter *only*, not for a presenter’s family members or support staff.
In the case of panel presentations consisting of three or more presenters, we offer one complete four-day Autreat registration, plus a single-day registration (including three meals and one overnight, if desired) for each additional panelist. Therefore, a panel of X presenters is entitled to a total of 4+(X-1) free days/overnights. Panelists may divide these free days amongst their members as they wish. Panel presenters are of course welcome to register and stay for additional days if they wish.
ANI is a volunteer-run, member-supported grassroots organization with minimal funding. We cannot reimburse for off-site expenses, nor can we pay travel expenses or honoraria. If your proposal is accepted, we will send you a formal letter of invitation if this would help you in raising your own travel funds.
Presenters are entitled to receive one free copy of the recording of their presentations.
PROPOSALS SHOULD INCLUDE:
* Your name and title (if any) exactly as you want them listed in program materials should your proposal be accepted
* Contact information (address, phone, fax and/or email if you have them)
* Title of your proposed presentation
* Detailed description for consideration by the Planning Committee
* Brief (5 sentences or less) abstract exactly as you want it listed in program materials should your proposal be accepted
* Indicate ONE theme that BEST relates to your proposed presentation:
[ ] Advocacy skills
[ ] Life skills/adaptive strategies
[ ] Helpful support services
[ ] Communication
[ ] Social/interpersonal issues
[ ] Personal/self-awareness/self-development issues
[ ] Autistic community and culture
[ ] Education
[ ] Employment
[ ] Family issues
[ ] Residential issues
[ ] Disability rights and politics
[ ] Autism research and theory
[ ] Other (describe):
* Indicate which group(s) you believe would find your proposed presentation of interest. Check as many as apply. Briefly describe what your presentation would offer to each group:
[ ] Autistic adults
[ ] Autistic teenagers
[ ] Family members of autistic people
[ ] Educators
[ ] Clinicians
[ ] Service providers
[ ] Other (specify):
* Brief (5 sentences or less) presenter bio exactly as you want it listed in program materials should your proposal be accepted
* Any audiovisual equipment you would need for your presentation
* If you have never presented at Autreat before, please also include an introduction for the Planning Committee summarizing your relevant experience, including any presentations or other education/advocacy activities elsewhere, and the nature of your interest in autism and/or in general disability issues.
PROPOSAL DEADLINE:
January 20, 2010
HOW TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL
Proposals can be submitted via email to proposals (at) autreat.com, or submitted online at www.ani.ac/aut10cfp.php, or sent via postal mail to
Autism Network International
P.O. Box 35448
Syracuse NY 13235
USA
When your proposal is received, you will be sent a brief acknowledgment confirming that we have received your proposal. If you have not received this confirmation within 48 hours of submitting your proposal, then we may not have received your proposal! If you haven’t received confirmation within 48 hours, please contact proposals (at) autreat.com and let us know. Please save a copy of your proposal, so you can resend it if necessary.
WHAT IF I DON'T WANT TO PRESENT, BUT I HAVE AN IDEA FOR A PRESENTATION I'D LIKE TO SEE?
If you want to make suggestions for Autreat presentations, or make comments about previous presentations or presenters, please fill out the questionnaire available at www.ani.ac/autplan2.php.
WHAT IF I WANT MORE INFORMATION ABOUT AUTREAT?
You can find a lot of general information, including a link to join the Autreat Information mailing list, at www.autreat.com. If you have specific questions and can't find the answers on the web page, you may send email to info (at) autreat.com.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Disability Studies Quarterly: Disability and Rhetoric
The profound insight of Disability Studies is its conception of disability as a representational system rather than as a medical problem, a deficit, or a personal tragedy (Thomson, 1997). In this view, disability is regarded not as a settled physical or cognitive fact but rather as a discourse, a collection of figures and narratives, tropes and topoi, speakers and audiences that suggest identities and positions in the world to those participating in the discourse. The analysis of disability, then, necessarily goes beyond medical and psychological perspectives to consider how words and other symbols may be used, recalling Kenneth Burke (1969), by human agents, “to form attitudes or to induce actions in other human agents” (41). Disability, to say it another way, is inherently rhetorical and may best be understood through methods of rhetorical inquiry and analysis.
To that end, a special issue of the Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ) will address the topic of rhetoric and disability. While Disability Studies has revealed the essentially discursive nature of disability, rhetorical theory and analysis promise to further the discussion by contributing a unique set of methods, terms, and concepts. Rhetorical method is a particularly important concern, and we are especially interested in essays that illustrate diverse methods and modes of rhetorical analysis as these relate to disability. Essays may analyze the workings of rhetoric in printed works about disability but also in other media, including film, music, web-texts, graphic novels, and other forms of sound and image.
We define “disability” broadly to include physical, cognitive, and intellectual difference. The ideal essays will enrich understandings of the relationship of rhetoric and disability, but will also serve as models for future scholarship in studies of symbolic representations of disability. Potential issues or topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
Manuscripts must be in the form of a Word document and:
Please send queries and submissions to John Duffy (jduffy@nd.edu) and
Melanie Yergeau (yergeau.1@osu.edu).
References
Burke, K. (1969). A rhetoric of motives. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Thomson, R. G. (1997). Disability, identity, and representation: An introduction. In R.G. Thomson, Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 5-18.
To that end, a special issue of the Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ) will address the topic of rhetoric and disability. While Disability Studies has revealed the essentially discursive nature of disability, rhetorical theory and analysis promise to further the discussion by contributing a unique set of methods, terms, and concepts. Rhetorical method is a particularly important concern, and we are especially interested in essays that illustrate diverse methods and modes of rhetorical analysis as these relate to disability. Essays may analyze the workings of rhetoric in printed works about disability but also in other media, including film, music, web-texts, graphic novels, and other forms of sound and image.
We define “disability” broadly to include physical, cognitive, and intellectual difference. The ideal essays will enrich understandings of the relationship of rhetoric and disability, but will also serve as models for future scholarship in studies of symbolic representations of disability. Potential issues or topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Disability as, in, or and rhetoric
- Disability and or as trope
- Disability rhetorics in the media
- Disability rhetorics in the classroom, workplace, or home
- Disability rhetorics and narrative
- Disability and digital rhetorics
- Activism and rhetoric
- Disability and audience
- Disability and rhetorical appeals, the rhetorical canons, and/or the rhetorical triangle
- Disability and legal/governmental rhetorics
- Rhetorics of accessibility
- Rhetorical constructions of disabled identity
- Queries or abstracts sent by February 1, 2010
- Full submissions due July 1, 2010
- Final revisions due November 31, 2010
- Publication in the Winter 2011 issue of DSQ.
Manuscripts must be in the form of a Word document and:
- Have a cover page that includes the author's name, institutional affiliation, and contact information
- Have an abstract of 100-150 words
- Be between 3,000-6,000 words in length (approximately 10-20 double-spaced pages)
- Provide full references for all citations
- Include a brief biography of the author (50-100 words)
Please send queries and submissions to John Duffy (jduffy@nd.edu) and
Melanie Yergeau (yergeau.1@osu.edu
References
Burke, K. (1969). A rhetoric of motives. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Thomson, R. G. (1997). Disability, identity, and representation: An introduction. In R.G. Thomson, Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 5-18.
Monday, November 16, 2009
CALL FOR PROPOSALS Conference: “Health, Embodiment, and Visual Culture: Engaging Publics and Pedagogies”
November 19-20, 2010
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Conference Co-Chairs:
Sarah Brophy, Associate Professor, Department of English and Cultural
Studies, McMaster University
Janice Hladki, Associate Professor, School of the Arts, McMaster University
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: January 15, 2010
CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION:
This interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore how visual cultural
practices image and imagine unruly bodies and, in so doing, respond to
Patricia Zimmermann's call for “radical media democracies that animate
contentious public spheres” (2000, p. xx). Our aim is to explore how health,
disability, and the body are theorized, materialized, and politicized in
forms of visual culture including photography, video art, graphic memoir,
film, body art and performance, and digital media. Accordingly, we invite
proposals for individual papers and roundtables that consider how
contemporary visual culture makes bodies political in ways that matter for
the future of democracy. Proposals may draw on fields such as: visual
culture, critical theory, disability studies, health studies, science
studies, autobiography studies, indigenous studies, feminisms, queer
studies, and globalization/transnationalism.
CONFERENCE EVENTS:
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
*Rebecca Belmore,* internationally recognized Anishinabekwe artist,
Vancouver (exhibitions of her performance, video, installation, and
sculpture include: Venice Biennale, Sydney Biennale, Brooklyn Museum of Art,
Art Gallery of Ontario, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts);
*Lisa Cartwright,* Professor of Communication and Science Studies and
Affiliated Faculty in Gender Studies, Department of Communication,
University of California, San Diego (/Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine’s
Visual Culture/; /Moral Spectatorship: Technologies of Voice and Affect in
Postwar Representations of the Child/)
*Robert McRuer,* Professor and Deputy Chair, Department of English, George
Washington University, Washington, DC (/Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of
Queerness and Disability/; /The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American
Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities/);
*Ato Quayson,* Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Diaspora
and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto (/Aesthetic Nervousness:
Disability and the Crisis of Representation/; /Relocating Postcolonialism/).
The conference will also feature /Scrapes: Unruly Embodiments in Video Art,/
an exhibition curated by Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki, at the McMaster
Museum of Art.
POSSIBLE THEMATICS:
1. Technologies
-- medical technologies (e.g. medical imaging, drug therapies, prosthetics
and other devices) and their implications for embodiment, subjectivity,
community, kinship, and politics
-- corporeality and the senses as sites/forms of knowledge-making
-- biopolitics and surveillance
-- the relationship between “old” and “new” technologies
-- how technologies mediate social spaces of embodiment and interaction
-- interrogations of the human and posthuman in medicine, science, and art
2. Cultural Production
-- cultural pedagogy; the production of knowledge in sites of cultural
production (e.g. galleries, festivals, classrooms, online, etc.)
-- counter-publics (e.g. disability culture)
-- indigenous modes of cultural production
-- diasporic/transnational issues and practices
-- new representational modes (e.g. digital arts, graphic memoir)
-- documentary practices
-- “doing politics in art” (Bennett)
3. Disability
-- medical, scientific, and cultural discourses of disability
-- performing and witnessing embodied difference
-- interrogations of impairment
-- genetics, reproduction, eugenics
-- dis-ease and disorder
-- “ability trouble” (McRuer)
-- “radical crip images” (McRuer)
4. Affect
-- explorations of “ugly feelings” (Ngai), “aesthetic nervousness”
(Quayson), “moral spectatorship” (Cartwright), “empathic vision” (Bennett),
and “seeing for” (Bal)
-- relationships to medicalization, regulation, and surveillance
-- affect as generative/productive in relation to concepts of ethical
spectatorship and witnessing
-- relationships between corporeality and theorizations of nature as dynamic
and agentic (Barad, Grosz, Haraway)
-- can we/should we move beyond the theories that posit /negative/ affect as
a prime site for ethics?
-- affect and global politics: representations of global mobilities,
violence, war, terrorism
HOW TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL:
We kindly invite submissions from scholars, artists, health professionals,
community members, and activists in all areas and disciplines.
Concurrent sessions will be 90 minutes in length. Proposals for the
following formats will be considered:
1) Individual papers: 15 minutes in length
2) Roundtables: 4-5 participants, including a designated moderator and a
plan for facilitated discussion of ideas
All submissions will be peer-reviewed.
Individual paper submissions should include:
1) affiliation and contact information
2) a biographical note of up to 200 words
3) paper title and a 300-500 word abstract; the description of the paper’s
content should be as specific as possible and indicate relevance to one or
more of the conference thematics.
4) details of audiovisual needs (e.g. DVD, LCD projection, and/or VHS). Note
that participants will need to bring their own laptops.
Roundtable submissions should include:
1) affiliation and contact information for each participant
2) a biographical note of up to 200 words for each participant
3) roundtable title and a 500 word proposal. The proposal should both
indicate the relevance of the roundtable to one or more of the conference
thematics and outline the organization of the proposed discussion.
4) details of audiovisual needs (e.g. DVD, LCD projection, and/or VHS). Note
that participants will need to bring their own laptops.
All submissions should be sent via email attachment to viscult@mcmaster.ca
by January 15, 2010. Please use the subject
line “proposal for Health, Embodiment, and Visual Culture.” Attachments
should be in .doc or .rtf formats.
If electronic submission is not possible, please mail or fax proposals to
arrive by January 15, 2010.
Address: Sarah Brophy & Janice Hladki: Health, Embodiment, and Visual
Culture Conference
c/o Department of English & Cultural Studies
Chester New Hall 321
McMaster University
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L9
Fax: 905-777-8316
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Conference Co-Chairs:
Sarah Brophy, Associate Professor, Department of English and Cultural
Studies, McMaster University
Janice Hladki, Associate Professor, School of the Arts, McMaster University
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: January 15, 2010
CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION:
This interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore how visual cultural
practices image and imagine unruly bodies and, in so doing, respond to
Patricia Zimmermann's call for “radical media democracies that animate
contentious public spheres” (2000, p. xx). Our aim is to explore how health,
disability, and the body are theorized, materialized, and politicized in
forms of visual culture including photography, video art, graphic memoir,
film, body art and performance, and digital media. Accordingly, we invite
proposals for individual papers and roundtables that consider how
contemporary visual culture makes bodies political in ways that matter for
the future of democracy. Proposals may draw on fields such as: visual
culture, critical theory, disability studies, health studies, science
studies, autobiography studies, indigenous studies, feminisms, queer
studies, and globalization/transnationalism.
CONFERENCE EVENTS:
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
*Rebecca Belmore,* internationally recognized Anishinabekwe artist,
Vancouver (exhibitions of her performance, video, installation, and
sculpture include: Venice Biennale, Sydney Biennale, Brooklyn Museum of Art,
Art Gallery of Ontario, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts);
*Lisa Cartwright,* Professor of Communication and Science Studies and
Affiliated Faculty in Gender Studies, Department of Communication,
University of California, San Diego (/Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine’s
Visual Culture/; /Moral Spectatorship: Technologies of Voice and Affect in
Postwar Representations of the Child/)
*Robert McRuer,* Professor and Deputy Chair, Department of English, George
Washington University, Washington, DC (/Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of
Queerness and Disability/; /The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American
Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities/);
*Ato Quayson,* Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Diaspora
and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto (/Aesthetic Nervousness:
Disability and the Crisis of Representation/; /Relocating Postcolonialism/).
The conference will also feature /Scrapes: Unruly Embodiments in Video Art,/
an exhibition curated by Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki, at the McMaster
Museum of Art.
POSSIBLE THEMATICS:
1. Technologies
-- medical technologies (e.g. medical imaging, drug therapies, prosthetics
and other devices) and their implications for embodiment, subjectivity,
community, kinship, and politics
-- corporeality and the senses as sites/forms of knowledge-making
-- biopolitics and surveillance
-- the relationship between “old” and “new” technologies
-- how technologies mediate social spaces of embodiment and interaction
-- interrogations of the human and posthuman in medicine, science, and art
2. Cultural Production
-- cultural pedagogy; the production of knowledge in sites of cultural
production (e.g. galleries, festivals, classrooms, online, etc.)
-- counter-publics (e.g. disability culture)
-- indigenous modes of cultural production
-- diasporic/transnational issues and practices
-- new representational modes (e.g. digital arts, graphic memoir)
-- documentary practices
-- “doing politics in art” (Bennett)
3. Disability
-- medical, scientific, and cultural discourses of disability
-- performing and witnessing embodied difference
-- interrogations of impairment
-- genetics, reproduction, eugenics
-- dis-ease and disorder
-- “ability trouble” (McRuer)
-- “radical crip images” (McRuer)
4. Affect
-- explorations of “ugly feelings” (Ngai), “aesthetic nervousness”
(Quayson), “moral spectatorship” (Cartwright), “empathic vision” (Bennett),
and “seeing for” (Bal)
-- relationships to medicalization, regulation, and surveillance
-- affect as generative/productive in relation to concepts of ethical
spectatorship and witnessing
-- relationships between corporeality and theorizations of nature as dynamic
and agentic (Barad, Grosz, Haraway)
-- can we/should we move beyond the theories that posit /negative/ affect as
a prime site for ethics?
-- affect and global politics: representations of global mobilities,
violence, war, terrorism
HOW TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL:
We kindly invite submissions from scholars, artists, health professionals,
community members, and activists in all areas and disciplines.
Concurrent sessions will be 90 minutes in length. Proposals for the
following formats will be considered:
1) Individual papers: 15 minutes in length
2) Roundtables: 4-5 participants, including a designated moderator and a
plan for facilitated discussion of ideas
All submissions will be peer-reviewed.
Individual paper submissions should include:
1) affiliation and contact information
2) a biographical note of up to 200 words
3) paper title and a 300-500 word abstract; the description of the paper’s
content should be as specific as possible and indicate relevance to one or
more of the conference thematics.
4) details of audiovisual needs (e.g. DVD, LCD projection, and/or VHS). Note
that participants will need to bring their own laptops.
Roundtable submissions should include:
1) affiliation and contact information for each participant
2) a biographical note of up to 200 words for each participant
3) roundtable title and a 500 word proposal. The proposal should both
indicate the relevance of the roundtable to one or more of the conference
thematics and outline the organization of the proposed discussion.
4) details of audiovisual needs (e.g. DVD, LCD projection, and/or VHS). Note
that participants will need to bring their own laptops.
All submissions should be sent via email attachment to viscult@mcmaster.ca
line “proposal for Health, Embodiment, and Visual Culture.” Attachments
should be in .doc or .rtf formats.
If electronic submission is not possible, please mail or fax proposals to
arrive by January 15, 2010.
Address: Sarah Brophy & Janice Hladki: Health, Embodiment, and Visual
Culture Conference
c/o Department of English & Cultural Studies
Chester New Hall 321
McMaster University
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L9
Fax: 905-777-8316
Call for essays: LGBTQ responses to mental health system
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call for essays: LGBTQ responses to mental health system
by Katherine Mancuso - Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 06:48 PM
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HEADCASE: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, And Queer (LGBTQ) Writers and Artists on Mental Illness
Edited by Teresa Theophano, LMSW
Headcase will be an anthology comprised of 15-20 nonfiction pieces by writers and artists both established and new, exploring the theme of mental health, mental illness, and mental health care in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning (LGBTQ) community. The book is currently being considered for publication by a major queer press.
The anthology seeks essays, poetry, and comics by queer consumers of mental health services or queer individuals who have been diagnosed, but do not identify as patients, with mental illness. Works should explore the intersection of queerness and mental health and can include topics such as psychotropics; Gender Identity Disorder and its acceptance or rejection as a legitimate mental disorder; conventional v. holistic treatment; experiences in therapy, groups, and/or institutions; how race and ethnicity, class, sex, gender identity, age, and disability impact access to treatment; addiction, self-medicating, and recovery.
Modest compensation provided upon publication to contributors whose pieces are chosen.
Guidelines:
call for essays: LGBTQ responses to mental health system
by Katherine Mancuso - Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 06:48 PM
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HEADCASE: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, And Queer (LGBTQ) Writers and Artists on Mental Illness
Edited by Teresa Theophano, LMSW
Headcase will be an anthology comprised of 15-20 nonfiction pieces by writers and artists both established and new, exploring the theme of mental health, mental illness, and mental health care in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning (LGBTQ) community. The book is currently being considered for publication by a major queer press.
The anthology seeks essays, poetry, and comics by queer consumers of mental health services or queer individuals who have been diagnosed, but do not identify as patients, with mental illness. Works should explore the intersection of queerness and mental health and can include topics such as psychotropics; Gender Identity Disorder and its acceptance or rejection as a legitimate mental disorder; conventional v. holistic treatment; experiences in therapy, groups, and/or institutions; how race and ethnicity, class, sex, gender identity, age, and disability impact access to treatment; addiction, self-medicating, and recovery.
Modest compensation provided upon publication to contributors whose pieces are chosen.
Guidelines:
- Pieces should be between 750 and 1500 words (approximately 3 to 5 double-spaced pages).
- While the deadline for a 2010 publication date has not yet been established, submitting your piece by December 1, 2009 is recommended.
- Descriptions of pieces in progress are also welcome.
- Submissions should be sent as a Microsoft Word document, double-spaced, 12 pt. font, Times New Roman font.
- Please provide a brief (100 words or less) bio with your submission
- Teresa Theophano is a licensed social worker, out queer mental health consumer, and the author of Queer Quotes (Beacon Press, 2004).
Critical Disability Discourse Call for Papers
York University’s Critical Disability Studies Graduate Student Program has launched an academic journal as of November 2009. Critical Disability Discourse is a bilingual, interdisciplinary journal, publishing articles that focus on experiences of disability within a predominantly Canadian context. The journal considers articles from scholars in a variety of academic fields, but preference will be given to work submitted by graduate students.
Possible topics can include but are not limited to the following:
Submission deadline is March 1, 2010.
For more information and updates, please use the following links:
Possible topics can include but are not limited to the following:
- Critical theory and disability: feminism, post-modernism, Marxism, etc.
- History of disability: Antiquity, Middle Ages, Victorian Age, Industrial Age, etc.
- Law and public policy, and disability
- Qualitative and quantitative research pertaining to disability
- Education and disability
- Culture: disability-related literature and film analysis
- Employment, market, workforce, and income security in relation to disability
- Disability-related topics in social sciences: psychology, sociology, geography, political science
- Assessment of accessibility accommodations
- Technology and disability
- Articles must critically address a question about an aspect of disability and offer a new angle of thought and insight; they should contribute to scholarship in the field of Critical Disability Studies. Articles must involve a critical argument, rather than be only descriptive.
- Articles must be submitted in either English of French. Authors must consent to the translation of their articles for publication.
- In submitting a manuscript, authors affirm that the research is original and unpublished, is not in press or under consideration elsewhere, and will not be submitted elsewhere while under consideration by the Journal.
- Articles must be 3,000-7,000 words (including quotations, references, footnotes, tables, figures, diagrams, and illustrations).
- In promoting inclusion and accessibility, the journal accepts and encourages tables, figures, diagrams, and illustrations within the article. However, all tables, figures, diagrams, and illustrations must include detailed written descriptions.
- An abstract of 100-150 words should summarize the main arguments and themes of the article, the methods and results obtained, if the author’s own research was conducted, and the conclusions reached. A list of 5-7 keywords should also be included after the abstract.
- We ask that authors are mindful of their language choices pertaining to disability and that they justify the use of controversial words.
- Articles are peer-reviewed. Authors’ names and other identifying information must be removed in order to be sent to reviewers.
- Authors are responsible for ethics approval for manuscripts by receiving approval from their own institutions. Proof of ethics approval (if applicable) should be provided to the Journal.
- The Journal’s style generally follows the most recent edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association; English spelling follows the most recent edition of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary.
- Manuscripts must be entirely double-spaced (including quotations, notes, references) in 12-point Times New Roman font.
- The Journal accepts footnotes, but only sparingly.
Submission deadline is March 1, 2010.
For more information and updates, please use the following links:
- Critical Disability Studies Homepage: www.yorku.ca/cds_grad
- Critical Disability Discourse Online Journal: https://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/cdd
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
26th Annual Pacific Rim International Conference on Disabilities
The International Pacific Rim Conference (Pac Rim) on Disabilities has been widely recognized over the past 25 years as one of the most “diverse gatherings” in the world. The event encourages and respects voices from “diverse” perspective across numerous areas, including: voices from persons representing all disability areas; experiences of family members and supporters across all disability areas; responsiveness to diverse cultural and language differences; evidence of researchers and academics studying disability; stories of persons providing powerful lessons; examples of program providers, natural supports and allies of persons with disabilities and; action plans to meet human and social needs in a globalized world.
Each year the conference hues to its traditional areas which have bred much of the interdisciplinary research and educational advances of the last three decades. But each year new topics are introduced to foment discussion and change. The intent is to harness the tremendous synergy as generated by the intermingling of these diverse perspectives, thus, creating a powerful program which impacts each individual participant in his or her own unique way.
For more information, visit the home page of the conference:
Friday, October 23, 2009
CFP: SDS Annual Conference
SDS 2010, 22nd Annual Conference Call for Proposals
THEME: DISABILITY IN THE GEO-POLITICAL IMAGINATION
Dates: June 2-5, 2010
Host: Institute on Disabilities, Temple University
Location: Howard Gittis Student Center, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Submission Forms: All proposals must use the SDS CFP submission form available at the 2010 SDS conference site.
Proposal Deadline: Midnight EST, December 15, 2009
The board of the Society for Disability Studies recognizes the unfortunate scheduling conflict of this year's annual conference with that of the Canadian Disability Studies Association. In keeping with this year's theme of the "Geo-Political Imagination," and in order to encourage continuing productive exchange of knowledge across our borders, both groups are making all efforts to adopt innovative strategies for connecting the events virtually through live interactive video and special programming. Look for an addendum to this CFP with the details of these opportunities in the next few weeks.
DISABILITY IN THE GEO-POLITICAL IMAGINATION
The development of global studies has increasingly called for a cross-cultural and comparative approach to questions of marginalization, stigma, diaspora and resettlement, labor and exploitation, climate change, and the world-ranging production of impairment and disability from violence, inhumane treatment, crumbling infrastructure, and environmental degradation. A significant amount of scholarship also examines new resistance cultures and the galvanization of global networks as members of diverse disability communities try to navigate productive collaborations across newly wired cybernetic systems and claim the possibilities offered by globalization. New opportunities and new problems abound around forging transnational communities, increased mobility, health and charity tourism, the implementation of universal rights, increased transparency of states and organizations, better community-based rehabilitation, and more varied work possibilities.
This year's Society for Disability Studies conference features the theme Disability in the Geo-Political Imagination to spur ongoing efforts in interdisciplinary analyses. Such a theme arrives at a timely moment in the wake of the signing of the United Nations Charter on the Rights of People with Disabilities by leaders in 140 nations (including, most recently and somewhat belatedly, the United States). As a result of the emergence and ratification of this convention, disability has become a more visible topic within the public sphere. Nations, perhaps including the United States, that previously undervalued disabled populations now contend with what it means to be truly inclusive. Likewise, Disability-advocacy organizations now seek to
make further claims upon the state as a guarantor of rights and liberties. This SDS conference theme includes proactive responses and solutions to the critique that disabled populations particularly those which are disproportionately poor and people of color are ill represented, under-analyzed, and under-theorized, particularly in the context of global studies. As the local and global may be seen as intertwined and haunting each other, so can questions of disability, race, class, and gender.
Disability studies explores the distance that exists between popular representations of disability as tragic embodiment, and politically informed disability cultures that define themselves against such devaluing views. Authors of panel and paper proposals will ideally feature new ways of conceptualizing people who experience disability as social actors connected or disconnected on a global scale. In particular, the SDS Program Committee seeks entries from those areas of inquiry that resist, revise, and re-imagine contemporary understandings of human differences and embodiment such as critical race studies, feminist/womanist studies, class-based analyses, queer studies, trans-gender studies, and other critical perspectives linked to social justice initiatives.
While proposals for any topic are always welcome at SDS, we offer a suggested theme each year. This year’s theme encourages submissions that attend to local conditions, including those in our host city of Philadelphia, within a global context and to cultures of empowerment and resistance within the complexity of global exploitation and opportunities.
Questions about the application process or other administrative matters may be directed to the SDS Executive Office at conference@disstudies.org.
Overall questions can be directed to either of the Program Committee Co-Chairs:
•David Mitchell--dmitchel@temple.edu Temple University
•Devva Kasnitz devva@earthlink.net University of California, Berkeley
To read the full CFP, review application guidelines, or to submit a proposal, visit:
http://www.disstudies.org/conference/2010/cfp.
THEME: DISABILITY IN THE GEO-POLITICAL IMAGINATION
Dates: June 2-5, 2010
Host: Institute on Disabilities, Temple University
Location: Howard Gittis Student Center, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Submission Forms: All proposals must use the SDS CFP submission form available at the 2010 SDS conference site.
Proposal Deadline: Midnight EST, December 15, 2009
The board of the Society for Disability Studies recognizes the unfortunate scheduling conflict of this year's annual conference with that of the Canadian Disability Studies Association. In keeping with this year's theme of the "Geo-Political Imagination," and in order to encourage continuing productive exchange of knowledge across our borders, both groups are making all efforts to adopt innovative strategies for connecting the events virtually through live interactive video and special programming. Look for an addendum to this CFP with the details of these opportunities in the next few weeks.
DISABILITY IN THE GEO-POLITICAL IMAGINATION
The development of global studies has increasingly called for a cross-cultural and comparative approach to questions of marginalization, stigma, diaspora and resettlement, labor and exploitation, climate change, and the world-ranging production of impairment and disability from violence, inhumane treatment, crumbling infrastructure, and environmental degradation. A significant amount of scholarship also examines new resistance cultures and the galvanization of global networks as members of diverse disability communities try to navigate productive collaborations across newly wired cybernetic systems and claim the possibilities offered by globalization. New opportunities and new problems abound around forging transnational communities, increased mobility, health and charity tourism, the implementation of universal rights, increased transparency of states and organizations, better community-based rehabilitation, and more varied work possibilities.
This year's Society for Disability Studies conference features the theme Disability in the Geo-Political Imagination to spur ongoing efforts in interdisciplinary analyses. Such a theme arrives at a timely moment in the wake of the signing of the United Nations Charter on the Rights of People with Disabilities by leaders in 140 nations (including, most recently and somewhat belatedly, the United States). As a result of the emergence and ratification of this convention, disability has become a more visible topic within the public sphere. Nations, perhaps including the United States, that previously undervalued disabled populations now contend with what it means to be truly inclusive. Likewise, Disability-advocacy organizations now seek to
make further claims upon the state as a guarantor of rights and liberties. This SDS conference theme includes proactive responses and solutions to the critique that disabled populations particularly those which are disproportionately poor and people of color are ill represented, under-analyzed, and under-theorized, particularly in the context of global studies. As the local and global may be seen as intertwined and haunting each other, so can questions of disability, race, class, and gender.
Disability studies explores the distance that exists between popular representations of disability as tragic embodiment, and politically informed disability cultures that define themselves against such devaluing views. Authors of panel and paper proposals will ideally feature new ways of conceptualizing people who experience disability as social actors connected or disconnected on a global scale. In particular, the SDS Program Committee seeks entries from those areas of inquiry that resist, revise, and re-imagine contemporary understandings of human differences and embodiment such as critical race studies, feminist/womanist studies, class-based analyses, queer studies, trans-gender studies, and other critical perspectives linked to social justice initiatives.
While proposals for any topic are always welcome at SDS, we offer a suggested theme each year. This year’s theme encourages submissions that attend to local conditions, including those in our host city of Philadelphia, within a global context and to cultures of empowerment and resistance within the complexity of global exploitation and opportunities.
Questions about the application process or other administrative matters may be directed to the SDS Executive Office at conference@disstudies.org.
Overall questions can be directed to either of the Program Committee Co-Chairs:
•David Mitchell--dmitchel@temple.edu Temple University
•Devva Kasnitz devva@earthlink.net University of California, Berkeley
To read the full CFP, review application guidelines, or to submit a proposal, visit:
http://www.disstudies.org/conference/2010/cfp.
CFP: Canadian Disability Studies Association 7th Annual Conference
Canadian Disability Studies Association 7th Annual Conference
June 2, 3, and 4, 2010
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
Call for Presentation Proposals
CDSA-ACEI hosts its seventh annual conference, June 2, 3, and 4, 2010, at Concordia University in Montreal in conjunction with the annual Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Theme:
The Congress 2010 theme is "Connected Understanding/Le savoir branché." Connected understanding speaks to scholarly activity in Disability Studies from two perspectives. First, it refers to the impact of the rise of digital technology on our scholarly research and research-creation. New technology has provided Disability Studies scholars with different research tools, access to new sources and new means of communicating their research results to colleagues and the wider public. In many cases, these new tools have transformed how Disability Studies scholars understand problems. Second, the idea of connected understanding speaks to the links that Disability Studies scholars make with their colleagues in other fields and with larger audiences beyond the academic world. Here, too, technology has enhanced the ability of individuals outside the academy to respond to, and challenge the authority of Disability Studies scholars. These connections have added new voices to the discussion of many issues and complicated our understanding of them.
Digital technology has been a boon to people with disabilities, providing access to a world that was often inaccessible or difficult to navigate, but in turn has changed connections between people. People in the same department or at the same campus that would meet in person to discuss things instead communicate by email, voicemail, or text messages. People that would travel to other cities to conferences to present papers and network instead Skype, video/teleconference, or podcast. We may be connected and understanding by using digital technology, but are we really connecting with each other?
In keeping with the Congress theme for 2010 "Connected Understanding/Le savoir branché" CDSA-ACEI is interested in the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of research and the importance of connecting the academic world with users of knowledge from all sectors. To connect Disability Studies scholars with scholars in different fields, to connect the discipline of Disability Studies with other academic disciplines, and to connect Disability Studies scholars with public audiences beyond academe.
Topics:
The mandate of CDSA-ACEI is to support and encourage global research on disability within a social-cultural-political paradigm, with a special interest in Canadian research and work. CDSA-ACEI invites presentation proposals from a broad range of disciplines and projects, from all established and emerging areas of research, that embrace unconventional topics or ways of research, or bring together scholars at different stages of their careers. While prospective presenters are invited to address the Congress theme, presentation proposals that depart from that theme are welcomed.
CDSA-ACEI encourages and welcomes undergraduate and graduate students to submit presentation proposals. Up to eight exemplary and inspirational student presenters will receive conference subsidies. Contact cdsa.acei@gmail.com for details.
Some possible topics for “Connected Understanding” could be:
* Challenges and issues for children, youth, and the elderly with disabilities
* Higher education issues for students and faculty with disabilities
* Portrayal of people with disabilities in the mass media, the arts, theatre, music, film, and literature
* Thinking beyond the “dis” in disability and Disability Studies
* Artists, writers, actors, or musicians with disabilities
* Employment and housing issues for people with disabilities
* Global migrations and identities for people with disabilities
* Technology advancements in the workplace, at school, and at home for people with disabilities
* Quality of life & bioethics issues for people with disabilities
* Healthcare and health literacy issues for people with disabilities
* Public, legal, and government policy issues for people with disabilities
* LGBTQ community within the disability community
* Sexual health of people with disabilities
* First Nations Peoples with disabilities
* Cultural / religious / ethnic views about people with disabilities
* Accessibility of social media
* Making “invisible” disabilities “visible”
* Accessibility of public spaces (i.e., parks, recreation areas, libraries, community centres)
* Issues for military veterans/personnel with disabilities
* Histories of people with disabilities
* Disability rights & advocacy
* Philosophical approaches about people with disabilities
* Body image & identity for people with disabilities
* Feminist approaches about people with disabilities
* Leisure/competitive sports & physical fitness for people with disabilities
* Theories & research methodologies in Disability Studies
Types of Presentations:
Submissions for the CDSA-ACEI conference may be one of four types. Each presentation block is 90 minutes (includes presenter changeover time and audience discussions).
1. Paper: This format includes individual presentations of works in progress, completed studies, “special” or “major” papers, or short scholarly papers. A paper presentation block will consist of three presenters and involve a discussant/chair to moderate the presenters and audience in the allocated 90-minute presentation block.
2. Panel: This format includes panels, workshops, symposiums, performances, recitals, and seminars. This provides opportunities to present diverse or conflicting perspectives that inspire deliberation on a compelling topic or issue that is or should be of concern to disability studies researchers. The organizer of the panel is responsible for setting the topic and number of presenters and moderates the presenters and audience in the allocated 90-minute presentation block.
3. Roundtable: This format includes informal discussions about particular research issues, books (already published or in progress), work that is at an early stage of conceptualization, research proposals, or the body of work of an individual/group. The organizer of the roundtable is responsible for setting the topic and number of presenters and moderates the presenters and audience in the allocated 90-minute presentation block.
4. Joint Session: This format is intended to highlight disability research and scholarly work that is interdisciplinary and collaborative in nature. It is organised and scheduled in conjunction with another CFHSS association and may involve a discussant/chair to moderate the presenters and audience in the allocated 90-minute presentation block.
Special Note: In acknowledgement of the date conflicts with the Society for Disability Studies’ 2010 conference, CDSA-ACEI will endeavour, depending on funding and available technical resources, to provide some opportunities for joint live presentations between the two associations. Contact cdsa.acei@gmail.com for details.
Submitting Proposals:
To submit a presentation proposal for the 2010 CDSA-ACEI conference, please send the following two components via email attachment. Presentation proposals should be emailed to cdsa.acei@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is 4:00pm EST on December 4, 2009.
1. Presentation Submission Form (MS Word only): Fill out the pertaining information in the form for each presenter.
2. Presentation Proposal: On a separate page, place the title of the presentation at the top of the page. Then using between 300 and 500 words describe the presentation. Ensure no author/presenter names or institutional affiliations appear in the proposal. Allow 1" (2.5 cm) margins and use 12 pt. type, preferably in Times New Roman and using Microsoft Word. Citations acceptable, but not required. The proposal should summarize such factors as objectives, perspectives, theoretical framework, methods/techniques of investigation, data sources, results, conclusions, anticipated outcomes, educational significance, policy and/or practice implications, and any other information that will clarify the topic and delivery of the proposed presentation.
If you are submitting a presentation proposal for a Panel, Roundtable, or Joint Session, include both a 300 to 500 words proposal for the Panel, Roundtable, or Joint Session and a 300 to 500 words proposal for each presenter in the Panel, Roundtable, or Joint Session.
Important Notes:
Multiple presentations are not permitted. However, a presenter is permitted to do a paper/panel/joint session presentation and participate in a roundtable presentation.
In case of scheduling difficulties, CDSA-ACEI reserves the right to break up panels if necessary.
CDSA-ACEI cannot guarantee all requests for audio-visual or technical equipment. CDSA-ACEI reserves the right to charge for audio-visual or technical equipment demands beyond those provided by Congress.
CDSA-ACEI guarantees all presentation rooms are wheelchair-accessible. CDSA-ACEI cannot guarantee all requests for accessibility services, and reserves the right to charge for accessibility services demands beyond CDSA-ACEI’s financial abilities.
June 2, 3, and 4, 2010
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
Call for Presentation Proposals
CDSA-ACEI hosts its seventh annual conference, June 2, 3, and 4, 2010, at Concordia University in Montreal in conjunction with the annual Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Theme:
The Congress 2010 theme is "Connected Understanding/Le savoir branché." Connected understanding speaks to scholarly activity in Disability Studies from two perspectives. First, it refers to the impact of the rise of digital technology on our scholarly research and research-creation. New technology has provided Disability Studies scholars with different research tools, access to new sources and new means of communicating their research results to colleagues and the wider public. In many cases, these new tools have transformed how Disability Studies scholars understand problems. Second, the idea of connected understanding speaks to the links that Disability Studies scholars make with their colleagues in other fields and with larger audiences beyond the academic world. Here, too, technology has enhanced the ability of individuals outside the academy to respond to, and challenge the authority of Disability Studies scholars. These connections have added new voices to the discussion of many issues and complicated our understanding of them.
Digital technology has been a boon to people with disabilities, providing access to a world that was often inaccessible or difficult to navigate, but in turn has changed connections between people. People in the same department or at the same campus that would meet in person to discuss things instead communicate by email, voicemail, or text messages. People that would travel to other cities to conferences to present papers and network instead Skype, video/teleconference, or podcast. We may be connected and understanding by using digital technology, but are we really connecting with each other?
In keeping with the Congress theme for 2010 "Connected Understanding/Le savoir branché" CDSA-ACEI is interested in the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of research and the importance of connecting the academic world with users of knowledge from all sectors. To connect Disability Studies scholars with scholars in different fields, to connect the discipline of Disability Studies with other academic disciplines, and to connect Disability Studies scholars with public audiences beyond academe.
Topics:
The mandate of CDSA-ACEI is to support and encourage global research on disability within a social-cultural-political paradigm, with a special interest in Canadian research and work. CDSA-ACEI invites presentation proposals from a broad range of disciplines and projects, from all established and emerging areas of research, that embrace unconventional topics or ways of research, or bring together scholars at different stages of their careers. While prospective presenters are invited to address the Congress theme, presentation proposals that depart from that theme are welcomed.
CDSA-ACEI encourages and welcomes undergraduate and graduate students to submit presentation proposals. Up to eight exemplary and inspirational student presenters will receive conference subsidies. Contact cdsa.acei@gmail.com for details.
Some possible topics for “Connected Understanding” could be:
* Challenges and issues for children, youth, and the elderly with disabilities
* Higher education issues for students and faculty with disabilities
* Portrayal of people with disabilities in the mass media, the arts, theatre, music, film, and literature
* Thinking beyond the “dis” in disability and Disability Studies
* Artists, writers, actors, or musicians with disabilities
* Employment and housing issues for people with disabilities
* Global migrations and identities for people with disabilities
* Technology advancements in the workplace, at school, and at home for people with disabilities
* Quality of life & bioethics issues for people with disabilities
* Healthcare and health literacy issues for people with disabilities
* Public, legal, and government policy issues for people with disabilities
* LGBTQ community within the disability community
* Sexual health of people with disabilities
* First Nations Peoples with disabilities
* Cultural / religious / ethnic views about people with disabilities
* Accessibility of social media
* Making “invisible” disabilities “visible”
* Accessibility of public spaces (i.e., parks, recreation areas, libraries, community centres)
* Issues for military veterans/personnel with disabilities
* Histories of people with disabilities
* Disability rights & advocacy
* Philosophical approaches about people with disabilities
* Body image & identity for people with disabilities
* Feminist approaches about people with disabilities
* Leisure/competitive sports & physical fitness for people with disabilities
* Theories & research methodologies in Disability Studies
Types of Presentations:
Submissions for the CDSA-ACEI conference may be one of four types. Each presentation block is 90 minutes (includes presenter changeover time and audience discussions).
1. Paper: This format includes individual presentations of works in progress, completed studies, “special” or “major” papers, or short scholarly papers. A paper presentation block will consist of three presenters and involve a discussant/chair to moderate the presenters and audience in the allocated 90-minute presentation block.
2. Panel: This format includes panels, workshops, symposiums, performances, recitals, and seminars. This provides opportunities to present diverse or conflicting perspectives that inspire deliberation on a compelling topic or issue that is or should be of concern to disability studies researchers. The organizer of the panel is responsible for setting the topic and number of presenters and moderates the presenters and audience in the allocated 90-minute presentation block.
3. Roundtable: This format includes informal discussions about particular research issues, books (already published or in progress), work that is at an early stage of conceptualization, research proposals, or the body of work of an individual/group. The organizer of the roundtable is responsible for setting the topic and number of presenters and moderates the presenters and audience in the allocated 90-minute presentation block.
4. Joint Session: This format is intended to highlight disability research and scholarly work that is interdisciplinary and collaborative in nature. It is organised and scheduled in conjunction with another CFHSS association and may involve a discussant/chair to moderate the presenters and audience in the allocated 90-minute presentation block.
Special Note: In acknowledgement of the date conflicts with the Society for Disability Studies’ 2010 conference, CDSA-ACEI will endeavour, depending on funding and available technical resources, to provide some opportunities for joint live presentations between the two associations. Contact cdsa.acei@gmail.com for details.
Submitting Proposals:
To submit a presentation proposal for the 2010 CDSA-ACEI conference, please send the following two components via email attachment. Presentation proposals should be emailed to cdsa.acei@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is 4:00pm EST on December 4, 2009.
1. Presentation Submission Form (MS Word only): Fill out the pertaining information in the form for each presenter.
2. Presentation Proposal: On a separate page, place the title of the presentation at the top of the page. Then using between 300 and 500 words describe the presentation. Ensure no author/presenter names or institutional affiliations appear in the proposal. Allow 1" (2.5 cm) margins and use 12 pt. type, preferably in Times New Roman and using Microsoft Word. Citations acceptable, but not required. The proposal should summarize such factors as objectives, perspectives, theoretical framework, methods/techniques of investigation, data sources, results, conclusions, anticipated outcomes, educational significance, policy and/or practice implications, and any other information that will clarify the topic and delivery of the proposed presentation.
If you are submitting a presentation proposal for a Panel, Roundtable, or Joint Session, include both a 300 to 500 words proposal for the Panel, Roundtable, or Joint Session and a 300 to 500 words proposal for each presenter in the Panel, Roundtable, or Joint Session.
Important Notes:
Multiple presentations are not permitted. However, a presenter is permitted to do a paper/panel/joint session presentation and participate in a roundtable presentation.
In case of scheduling difficulties, CDSA-ACEI reserves the right to break up panels if necessary.
CDSA-ACEI cannot guarantee all requests for audio-visual or technical equipment. CDSA-ACEI reserves the right to charge for audio-visual or technical equipment demands beyond those provided by Congress.
CDSA-ACEI guarantees all presentation rooms are wheelchair-accessible. CDSA-ACEI cannot guarantee all requests for accessibility services, and reserves the right to charge for accessibility services demands beyond CDSA-ACEI’s financial abilities.
Monday, October 5, 2009
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2010 CDSA-ACEI TANIS DOE AWARD FOR CANADIAN DISABILITY STUDY AND CULTURE
The Canadian Disability Studies Association-Association Canadienne des
Études sur l'Incapacité (CDSA-ACEI) is pleased to announce the call for
nominations for the annual CDSA-ACEI Tanis Doe Award for Canadian Disability
Study and Culture.
The CDSA-ACEI Tanis Doe Award for Canadian Disability Study and Culture was
first awarded in 2009, and is named for the activist and professor, Tanis
Doe, who passed away in 2004. This award honours an individual who dares to
"speak the unspeakable" in advancing the study and culture of disability,
and who has enriched through research, teaching, or activism, the lives of
Canadians with disabilities.
*ABOUT TANIS DOE*
Tanis Doe did innovative work on participatory action research, disability,
abuse, women, employment, assistive technology, and advocacy. She was a
professor of social work and disability studies at the University of
Victoria, and also taught at Royal Roads University, Ryerson University, and
the University of Washington. She was a 2003 Fulbright Scholar in Bioethics
at the University of Washington. She conducted research for innumerable
organizations in both Canada and the United States, and consulted with
organizations around the world.
As a Métis (Ojibway/French Canadian) Deaf woman with other disabilities who
was active in disability, queer, and feminist movements internationally,
Tanis Doe was widely respected as a disability rights advocate and as an
educator that provided leadership training and personal mentorship to untold
numbers of scholars and advocates across the Western Hemisphere.
In Tanis' words, "Some of us have become visible citizens of that other
place, using our bodies as our passports. People with disabilities are
frightening to the non-disabled because our citizenship is made clear. In
and with our bodies, we testify to both the existence and proximity of that
Otherland."
*NOMINATION PROCEDURE*
Criteria for nominees are they should be a Canadian citizen or a Permanent
Resident that works and lives in Canada. Anyone can submit a nomination,
but only one nomination in per award-cycle year. Self-nominations not
accepted.
The Letter of Nomination should include the following components:
1. Name and full contact information of the nominee.
2. Name and full contact information of the person making the nomination.
3. The achievements (research, teaching, scholarly achievement, advocacy,
leadership skills, community involvement, etc.) of the nominee that merit
consideration for this award.
4. A brief biographical sketch of the nominee.
5. A brief biographical sketch of the person making the nomination.
The Letter of Nomination should be 1 to 3 pages in length and in MS Word
.doc format with 12-point font and 1-inch margins. Send the Letter of
Nomination as an attachment in an email with the subject heading of "Tanis
Doe Award" to cdsa.acei@gmail.com by 4:00pm EST December 11, 2009.
The winner of the 2010 Tanis Doe Award will be acknowledged at the 2010
CDSA-ACEI conference and will receive a commemorative certificate (suitable
for framing) plus $200 (Canadian dollars).
Sincerely,
Dawna Lee Rumball, President
Canadian Disability Studies Association-Association Canadienne des Études
sur l'Incapacité
Études sur l'Incapacité (CDSA-ACEI) is pleased to announce the call for
nominations for the annual CDSA-ACEI Tanis Doe Award for Canadian Disability
Study and Culture.
The CDSA-ACEI Tanis Doe Award for Canadian Disability Study and Culture was
first awarded in 2009, and is named for the activist and professor, Tanis
Doe, who passed away in 2004. This award honours an individual who dares to
"speak the unspeakable" in advancing the study and culture of disability,
and who has enriched through research, teaching, or activism, the lives of
Canadians with disabilities.
*ABOUT TANIS DOE*
Tanis Doe did innovative work on participatory action research, disability,
abuse, women, employment, assistive technology, and advocacy. She was a
professor of social work and disability studies at the University of
Victoria, and also taught at Royal Roads University, Ryerson University, and
the University of Washington. She was a 2003 Fulbright Scholar in Bioethics
at the University of Washington. She conducted research for innumerable
organizations in both Canada and the United States, and consulted with
organizations around the world.
As a Métis (Ojibway/French Canadian) Deaf woman with other disabilities who
was active in disability, queer, and feminist movements internationally,
Tanis Doe was widely respected as a disability rights advocate and as an
educator that provided leadership training and personal mentorship to untold
numbers of scholars and advocates across the Western Hemisphere.
In Tanis' words, "Some of us have become visible citizens of that other
place, using our bodies as our passports. People with disabilities are
frightening to the non-disabled because our citizenship is made clear. In
and with our bodies, we testify to both the existence and proximity of that
Otherland."
*NOMINATION PROCEDURE*
Criteria for nominees are they should be a Canadian citizen or a Permanent
Resident that works and lives in Canada. Anyone can submit a nomination,
but only one nomination in per award-cycle year. Self-nominations not
accepted.
The Letter of Nomination should include the following components:
1. Name and full contact information of the nominee.
2. Name and full contact information of the person making the nomination.
3. The achievements (research, teaching, scholarly achievement, advocacy,
leadership skills, community involvement, etc.) of the nominee that merit
consideration for this award.
4. A brief biographical sketch of the nominee.
5. A brief biographical sketch of the person making the nomination.
The Letter of Nomination should be 1 to 3 pages in length and in MS Word
.doc format with 12-point font and 1-inch margins. Send the Letter of
Nomination as an attachment in an email with the subject heading of "Tanis
Doe Award" to cdsa.acei@gmail.com by 4:00pm EST December 11, 2009.
The winner of the 2010 Tanis Doe Award will be acknowledged at the 2010
CDSA-ACEI conference and will receive a commemorative certificate (suitable
for framing) plus $200 (Canadian dollars).
Sincerely,
Dawna Lee Rumball, President
Canadian Disability Studies Association-Association Canadienne des Études
sur l'Incapacité
Fashion Moves Garment Design Competition
NOTE: This is not necessarily a Disability Studies Conference or CFP but may be of interest to some.
It is finally here. We are pleased to announce the launch of the Fashion Moves Garment Design Competition. Register at www.fashionmoves.org
The goal of this Competition is to introduce Fashion Students around the World, to the opportunities of designing for people with various disabilities.
For an executive who uses a wheelchair, the suit jacket needs to be shortened and winter overcoats designed to be easier to put on and more comfortable to wear
For a teacher who wears a below-the-knee prosthetic, design trousers that are stylish but easy to enable removal of the prosthetic through the day without needing to take the pants off.
For anyone with limited hand dexterity, design shirts and blouses that have a formal look but are easier to do up without assistance.
For women taking part in the Ms Wheelchair America pageants, designing evening dresses that will not tangle in the wheels.
And performance ski suits for the Paralympic skiers who use sit-skis.
The First Annual Fashion Moves Garment Design Competition is now open! Students studying Fashion and Garment Design are invited to register and put their skills to work. There is no fee to register and all reports are submitted by E-Mail or through the website. Students from every corner of the Earth can meet together through Fashion Moves and exchange ideas and forge future business connections.
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Call for Papers: Feminist Disability Theories and the Law
Call for Papers: Feminist Disability Theories and the Law
Emory University
Atlanta, GA
December 11-12, 2009
The Feminism and Legal Theory (FLT) Project at Emory University is holding a workshop to explore the intersection between disability studies and feminist legal theory. We hope to forge a greater alliance between the rapidly-growing field of disability studies and the already rich field of feminist research in legal studies. Both feminist legal theory and feminist disability studies have interrogated diverse experiences and aspects of gendered embodiment in regard to disability, including disability discrimination, access to medical care and reproductive technologies, bodies and embodiment, illness and pain, birth regulation, childcare, and sexuality. In some areas, however, the synthesis has not been easy. The majority of feminists defend reproductive choices, while disability activists and scholars warn against eugenic impulses in structural contexts.
We hope to prompt transnational conversations among feminist legal scholars— including those who are new to disability. Disability studies scholars who have been incorporating feminist theories and exploring gendered issues and scholars who approach gender and disability as inseparable categories and take an intersectional approach from a feminist disability studies perspective are also welcome.
Two recent developments in the legal realm provide rich opportunities to reexamine disability from comparative perspectives: The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities points out that women and girls with disabilities are important groups to be recognized and the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act in the United States significantly broadens the definition of disability. Meanwhile, new biotechnology may give rise to a notion of disability that is tied to predictive medicine. A narrow view of disability is preferred in many jurisdictions in order to limit screening at the preimplantation and prenatal stages to instances of “serious disability” and to determine when or whether withdrawal or withholding of life sustaining treatment is appropriate. We believe this is a critical time to generate discussion about what constitutes disability and what political implications are involved.
Potential questions to be addressed include but not limited to:
Workshop Organizers:
Emory University
Atlanta, GA
December 11-12, 2009
The Feminism and Legal Theory (FLT) Project at Emory University is holding a workshop to explore the intersection between disability studies and feminist legal theory. We hope to forge a greater alliance between the rapidly-growing field of disability studies and the already rich field of feminist research in legal studies. Both feminist legal theory and feminist disability studies have interrogated diverse experiences and aspects of gendered embodiment in regard to disability, including disability discrimination, access to medical care and reproductive technologies, bodies and embodiment, illness and pain, birth regulation, childcare, and sexuality. In some areas, however, the synthesis has not been easy. The majority of feminists defend reproductive choices, while disability activists and scholars warn against eugenic impulses in structural contexts.
We hope to prompt transnational conversations among feminist legal scholars— including those who are new to disability. Disability studies scholars who have been incorporating feminist theories and exploring gendered issues and scholars who approach gender and disability as inseparable categories and take an intersectional approach from a feminist disability studies perspective are also welcome.
Two recent developments in the legal realm provide rich opportunities to reexamine disability from comparative perspectives: The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities points out that women and girls with disabilities are important groups to be recognized and the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act in the United States significantly broadens the definition of disability. Meanwhile, new biotechnology may give rise to a notion of disability that is tied to predictive medicine. A narrow view of disability is preferred in many jurisdictions in order to limit screening at the preimplantation and prenatal stages to instances of “serious disability” and to determine when or whether withdrawal or withholding of life sustaining treatment is appropriate. We believe this is a critical time to generate discussion about what constitutes disability and what political implications are involved.
Potential questions to be addressed include but not limited to:
- How can feminist legal theory and disability studies be mobilized in a project of transforming and reconceptualizing both law and disability?
- How do legal definitions of disability regulate, exclude, and/or protect marginalized populations based on their physical and mental differences, gender, economic status, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientations?
- What are the roles of human rights, formal equality, and anti-discrimination legislation in feminist approaches to disability and what can people with disabilities offer to reconfigure existing law?
- How can existent feminist legal scholarships in family, labor, caretaking, reproduction and sexuality be reformulated to incorporate the experiences and perspectives of women with disabilities?
- What kinds of support should be generated for people with disabilities who are blocked from entering—or choose not to enter—employment, marriage and intimate relationships, and parenting?
Workshop Organizers:
- Martha L.A. Fineman, Professor, Emory University, School of Law
- Isabel Karpin, Professor of Law, University of Technology, Sydney
- Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Professor, Emory University, Women’s Studies
- Eunjung Kim, Postdoctoral fellow, Emory University, School of Law
Virtual Conference CFP: What Works in Implementing Universal Design for Learning in Postsecondary Education?
What Works in Implementing Universal Design for Learning in Postsecondary Education?
February 22-26, 2010
Funded by the U. S. Office of Postsecondary Education
Hosted by National-Louis University
Universal Design in Postsecondary Education: According to the US Department of Education, 11.3% of undergraduate students in higher education report some type of disability. Most of these students attend two- and four-year institutions and are in credit-earning classes with non-disabled peers. Unless students with disabilities self-identify, faculty tend to remain unaware of their presence in the classroom. When students self-identify, they often do so by presenting an official letter of accommodation from the institution’s student services department, however this can come after a course has been designed and the syllabus published. Most last-minute adjustments like this can be avoided if instructors plan ahead by anticipating a classroom of students with diverse abilities and building options into the course from the very beginning. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) offers a philosophy and model for doing just that. UDL is most often discussed in relation to compulsory education (i.e., PreK-12). Too little has been disseminated about the practice of UDL in the postsecondary environment. This virtual conference will feature presentations and interactive sessions in which participants explore what works when it comes to UDL in inclusive postsecondary education.
Why a Virtual Conference? A virtual conference is more flexible for participants since it involves synchronous and asynchronous activities and can be accessed from anywhere with an internet connection. A virtual conference allows participants to experience learning in an accessible environment. It is less expensive to produce and attend since it is held online. A virtual conference provides the opportunity to experiment with and share resources related to universal design through the use of technology.
Possible presentation topics:
Proposals to present should include the following information:
February 22-26, 2010
Funded by the U. S. Office of Postsecondary Education
Hosted by National-Louis University
Universal Design in Postsecondary Education: According to the US Department of Education, 11.3% of undergraduate students in higher education report some type of disability. Most of these students attend two- and four-year institutions and are in credit-earning classes with non-disabled peers. Unless students with disabilities self-identify, faculty tend to remain unaware of their presence in the classroom. When students self-identify, they often do so by presenting an official letter of accommodation from the institution’s student services department, however this can come after a course has been designed and the syllabus published. Most last-minute adjustments like this can be avoided if instructors plan ahead by anticipating a classroom of students with diverse abilities and building options into the course from the very beginning. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) offers a philosophy and model for doing just that. UDL is most often discussed in relation to compulsory education (i.e., PreK-12). Too little has been disseminated about the practice of UDL in the postsecondary environment. This virtual conference will feature presentations and interactive sessions in which participants explore what works when it comes to UDL in inclusive postsecondary education.
Why a Virtual Conference? A virtual conference is more flexible for participants since it involves synchronous and asynchronous activities and can be accessed from anywhere with an internet connection. A virtual conference allows participants to experience learning in an accessible environment. It is less expensive to produce and attend since it is held online. A virtual conference provides the opportunity to experiment with and share resources related to universal design through the use of technology.
Possible presentation topics:
- Specific applications of UDL in syllabus/course design/content areas
- Successful strategies for implementing UDL in credit-earning courses
- UDL assessment in the postsecondary context
- UDL challenges and/or solutions in postsecondary settings
- Empirical studies of what works in UDL use
- Policy implications or challenges of UDL
- Professional development models for preparing faculty to use
- UDL
- Assistive Technology
- Alternative Frameworks for Accessibility
- Working with 3rd party vendors and content providers
- Designing accessible websites and content
- Creating Professional Development for faculty and staff interested in accessible design
Proposals to present should include the following information:
- Presenter(s) name(s)
- Institutional affiliation(s)
- Full contact information of lead presenter (address, phone, email, fax)
- Title of presentation or activity
- Format or type of activity or presentation (see below)
- Abstract of presentation or activity
- Accessibility features of your presentation or activity
- Your preference for media/delivery tool (ie: web conference, live text chat, etc.)
- Threaded discussion. You could propose to host a threaded discussion on a particular topic related to UDL. The discussion would take place throughout the week of the conference.
- "Poster” session. You could prepare a presentation to be posted on the conference website. Participants will be able to post questions or comments to which you can respond. We are open to other ideas for poster formats and delivery methods, so long as the format is 508 compliant.
- Chat room. You could propose to host a real time chat room on a particular topic related to UDL. After the conference, the chat text will be available on the conference website for other participants to read.
- Pre-recorded video. You could propose a video presentation for the conference website. You would be responsible for filming and providing closed captioning or a printed full text.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Tenth Annual Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion & Disability: Future History
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CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
Tenth Annual Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion & Disability: Future History
April 27 and 28, 2010
The Ohio State University Columbus Campus
The Tenth Annual Multiple Perspectives conference continues a decade of community exploration of disability as an individual experience and social reality that cuts across typical divisions of education & employment; scholarship & service; business & government; race, gender & ethnicity.
Multiple Perspectives is celebrating its tenth anniversary and the
second decade of the ADA is coming to a close refreshed by amendments.
Such milestones are an opportunity to consider where we are, how we got
here and where we are going; an opportunity to step back from the
immediate demands of access and reflect on how access, Inclusion and
disability fit with our goals of social justice, diversity and
excellence.
"Future History" was chosen as this year's theme to encourage this
reflection by celebrating the themes of past conferences. Presenters
are asked to use one of the ten past conference themes to frame their
proposals:
2001 - The Next Ten years
2002 - Disability in Context
2003 - Access by Design
2004 - Education, Citizenship, & Disability
2005 - Reflecting On Sameness & Difference
2006 - Personal Perspectives & Social Impact: The Stories We Tell".
2007 - Rights, Responsibilities, and Social Change
2008 - Looking Back & Thinking Ahead
2009 - Change, Challenge, & Collaboration
2010 - Future History
Conference information, past programs and updates can be found at: http://ada.osu.edu/conferences.htm.
To be on the mailing list for the conference, send e-mail to ADA-OSU@osu.edu
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Proposals are due November 7, 2009
Proposals may be submitted
by e-mail as an attachment (Word, Word Perfect, TXT, or RTF formats) to ADA-OSU@osu.edu
by Fax at 614-688-3665 (FAX)
in the mail:
University ADA Coordinator's Office
1849 Cannon Drive
Columbus, OH 43210.
Proposals must include:
Names and (as appropriate) titles and institutions/employers for each presenter.
Contact information (phone, mailing address, and e-mail) if there is more than one presenter please indicate one individual as the lead presenter.
Title of Presentation (12 words or less)
Short Description (30 words or less)
Full Description (700 words or less)
Please describe the structure, content, focus and desired outcomes for the presentation using these questions as a guide.
1. What is the format of the presentation (Lecture, Panel, Discussion, Poster, Performance, Other)?
2. What are your three main goals for the presentation?
3. What will your participants learn?
4. Who is the intended audience (educators, employers, businesses, advocates, students, consumers, researchers, etc.?
5. How familiar should the audience be with the topic (beginner, intermediate, advanced)?
Please Note:
The full conference fees will be waived and lunch provided for presenters of accepted proposals. Presenters are responsible for their own travel and lodging.
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
Tenth Annual Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion & Disability: Future History
April 27 and 28, 2010
The Ohio State University Columbus Campus
The Tenth Annual Multiple Perspectives conference continues a decade of community exploration of disability as an individual experience and social reality that cuts across typical divisions of education & employment; scholarship & service; business & government; race, gender & ethnicity.
Multiple Perspectives is celebrating its tenth anniversary and the
second decade of the ADA is coming to a close refreshed by amendments.
Such milestones are an opportunity to consider where we are, how we got
here and where we are going; an opportunity to step back from the
immediate demands of access and reflect on how access, Inclusion and
disability fit with our goals of social justice, diversity and
excellence.
"Future History" was chosen as this year's theme to encourage this
reflection by celebrating the themes of past conferences. Presenters
are asked to use one of the ten past conference themes to frame their
proposals:
2001 - The Next Ten years
2002 - Disability in Context
2003 - Access by Design
2004 - Education, Citizenship, & Disability
2005 - Reflecting On Sameness & Difference
2006 - Personal Perspectives & Social Impact: The Stories We Tell".
2007 - Rights, Responsibilities, and Social Change
2008 - Looking Back & Thinking Ahead
2009 - Change, Challenge, & Collaboration
2010 - Future History
Conference information, past programs and updates can be found at: http://ada.osu.edu/conferences.htm.
To be on the mailing list for the conference, send e-mail to ADA-OSU@osu.edu
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Proposals are due November 7, 2009
Proposals may be submitted
by e-mail as an attachment (Word, Word Perfect, TXT, or RTF formats) to ADA-OSU@osu.edu
by Fax at 614-688-3665 (FAX)
in the mail:
University ADA Coordinator's Office
1849 Cannon Drive
Columbus, OH 43210.
Proposals must include:
Names and (as appropriate) titles and institutions/employers for each presenter.
Contact information (phone, mailing address, and e-mail) if there is more than one presenter please indicate one individual as the lead presenter.
Title of Presentation (12 words or less)
Short Description (30 words or less)
Full Description (700 words or less)
Please describe the structure, content, focus and desired outcomes for the presentation using these questions as a guide.
1. What is the format of the presentation (Lecture, Panel, Discussion, Poster, Performance, Other)?
2. What are your three main goals for the presentation?
3. What will your participants learn?
4. Who is the intended audience (educators, employers, businesses, advocates, students, consumers, researchers, etc.?
5. How familiar should the audience be with the topic (beginner, intermediate, advanced)?
Please Note:
The full conference fees will be waived and lunch provided for presenters of accepted proposals. Presenters are responsible for their own travel and lodging.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Call for Proposals Anthology on Disability and Passing
Call for Proposals Anthology on Disability and Passing
Jeffrey A. Brune and Kim E. Nielsen, editors
Although one of the common experiences of passing involves disability, scholars have devoted little attention to this important topic. Studies of passing have also paid insufficient attention to the interplay that occurs between disability, race, gender, sexuality, and class when people transgress and create identity boundaries. Blurring the Lines: Disability, Race, Gender and Passing in Modern America is an effort to correct these intellectual omissions and advance the study of this important topic. The editors of this forthcoming anthology seek proposals for scholarly articles on disability and passing. We especially seek proposals that analyze aspects of identity such as race, class, gender, and sexuality, in addition to disability.
The editors welcome submissions from all fields in the humanities and social sciences for this interdisciplinary collection. We expect the anthology to reflect the work being done in fields ranging from literary theory to history to sociology. The anthology will focus mainly on modern America, but we also welcome articles that offer a comparative perspective from a different time or place. The editors are not looking for personal narratives, but will consider personal accounts set within
a strong analytic framework. We hope to limit the number of articles with a biographical or autobiographical approach.
To be considered for the anthology, please send a proposal of 250-500 words to both editors, Kim Nielsen nielsenk@uwgb.edu, and Jeff Brune jeff.brune@gallaudet.edu. We also request a c.v. of no more than five pages. All documents should be in MS Word format (.doc or .docx). Proposals should include the author’s name, institutional affiliation (if applicable), email address, postal address, and article title.
Proposals are due October 1, 2009 and we will notify authors of acceptance or rejection by November 10. Contributors will then have until June 1, 2010 to complete their articles of up to 10,000 words. We plan the book to be published in 2011.
Please feel free to email the editors with any questions. We look forward to receiving many submissions on this important and exciting topic.
Jeffrey A. Brune and Kim E. Nielsen, editors
Although one of the common experiences of passing involves disability, scholars have devoted little attention to this important topic. Studies of passing have also paid insufficient attention to the interplay that occurs between disability, race, gender, sexuality, and class when people transgress and create identity boundaries. Blurring the Lines: Disability, Race, Gender and Passing in Modern America is an effort to correct these intellectual omissions and advance the study of this important topic. The editors of this forthcoming anthology seek proposals for scholarly articles on disability and passing. We especially seek proposals that analyze aspects of identity such as race, class, gender, and sexuality, in addition to disability.
The editors welcome submissions from all fields in the humanities and social sciences for this interdisciplinary collection. We expect the anthology to reflect the work being done in fields ranging from literary theory to history to sociology. The anthology will focus mainly on modern America, but we also welcome articles that offer a comparative perspective from a different time or place. The editors are not looking for personal narratives, but will consider personal accounts set within
a strong analytic framework. We hope to limit the number of articles with a biographical or autobiographical approach.
To be considered for the anthology, please send a proposal of 250-500 words to both editors, Kim Nielsen nielsenk@uwgb.edu, and Jeff Brune jeff.brune@gallaudet.edu. We also request a c.v. of no more than five pages. All documents should be in MS Word format (.doc or .docx). Proposals should include the author’s name, institutional affiliation (if applicable), email address, postal address, and article title.
Proposals are due October 1, 2009 and we will notify authors of acceptance or rejection by November 10. Contributors will then have until June 1, 2010 to complete their articles of up to 10,000 words. We plan the book to be published in 2011.
Please feel free to email the editors with any questions. We look forward to receiving many submissions on this important and exciting topic.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
CFP for Special Issue of JLCDS. Human Conditions: Disability and Life Writing
Call for Papers
Special Issue of Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (JLCDS)
Special Issue of Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (JLCDS)
Human Conditions: Disability and Life Writing
Guest Editor, G. Thomas Couser
Papers welcome on any aspect of this broad topic. I wish to encourage breadth across time, across cultures, and across media: thus, "life writing" should be understood to include non-print media (such as blogs) and even non-written forms of representation, such as documentary film, YouTube videos, and more. The following questions, then, are meant to be provocative and suggestive, rather than exhaustive.
How have recent developments in media affected representation of disability?
How has the growth of self-publishing (which effectively bypasses any editorial gate-keepers) affected representation of disability?
Are new categories of disability being represented?
How "representative" (inclusive) is the representation of disability in life writing? That is, has life writing showcased some disabilities or impairments and tended to eclipse others?
Are developmental disabilities adequately represented, both qualitatively and quantitatively, in life writing? Also, how diverse is the representation of disability in life writing in terms of ethnicity, race, and national origin?
How does the representation of disability in life writing vary from nation to nation, culture to culture? That is, have some cultures been more receptive to it than others? Is there significant disability life writing before Helen Keller's?
Pre-submission inquiries welcome.
Proposals to G.T.Couser@hofstra.edu by 1 September 2009, complete
papers by 14 February 2010.
Call for Essays: Hypatia
HYPATIA SPECIAL ISSUE: ETHICS OF EMBODIMENT
Volume 26 Number 3, Summer 2011
Guest Editors: Debra Bergoffen and Gail Weiss
Volume 26 Number 3, Summer 2011
Guest Editors: Debra Bergoffen and Gail Weiss
CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline: March 15, 2010
This Hypatia Special Issue will showcase the diversity of ethical approaches to embodiment. Despite the centrality of the body in discussions of gender, race, class, religion, ethnicity, and ability and their respective intersections, the implications of feminist analyses of the body as a
ground for ethical theorizing, as the subject of ethical demands, and as the very means by which these demands are articulated, are yet to be the subject of a volume or journal issue. We seek to remedy this important gap by calling for original essays by feminists who draw from different philosophical traditions and practices to develop the ethical implications of human and/or nonhuman embodied experience.
Contributors may wish to consider such questions as:
*How does bodily vulnerability inform ethical demands?
*What ethical traditions offer the most (or least) productive resources for considering the ethical implications of embodiment?
*How might a focus on embodiment re-align existing ethical theories and practices (e.g. medical practices and public policy)?
*What challenges does an emphasis upon the primacy of embodied experience pose to traditional, cognitive-based, ethical theorizing?
*How might considerations of nonhuman forms of embodiment affect ethical understandings of human embodiment (and vice versa)?
*What current bodily norms are challenged by an ethics of embodiment?
*How can the suffering of people who have been socially, politically, medically, and/or legally disenfranchised be alleviated by considering the ethical dimensions of the body?
*How would an embodied ethics contribute to new ways of thinking about space, time, and/or intersubjectivity?
*How might an ethics, grounded in the body, affect and transform both individual and collective lives?
Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2010.
Papers should be no more than 8000 words, inclusive of notes and bibliography, prepared for anonymous review, and accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words. For details please see: http://depts.washington.edu/hypatia/submission_guidelines.shtml. Please submit your paper to: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hypa. When you submit, make sure to select "Ethics of Embodiment" as your manuscript type, and also send an email to the guest editor(s) notifying them of the title of the paper you've submitted: Debra Bergoffen, dbergoff@gmu.edu and Gail Weiss gweiss@gwu.edu
CUNY Symposium on Music and Disability
CUNY Symposium on Music and Disability
Call for Papers
The Ph.D. Program in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center and The M.A. Program in Disability Studies at the CUNY School for Professional Studies
announce
A Symposium on Music and Disability
January 15 - 17, 2010
The Symposium will be more a workshop or seminar than a traditional conference. There will be fewer than fifteen participants, and each will have an ongoing research project on music and disability. The Symposium will be primarily devoted to discussion and critique of these works-in-progress, which may include future conference presentations, book or dissertation chapters, and articles. Four three-hour discussions around the seminar table (Friday afternoon, Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon, Sunday morning) will be interspersed with meals, lectures, and musical performances. Lectures and performances will be open to the public, but the seminar meetings will be open only to Symposium participants.
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson will be the Keynote Speaker for the Symposium and the Respondent for all of the papers. She is Professor of Women's Studies at Emory University and the author of Staring: How We Look(Oxford UP, 2009) and Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Literature and Culture(Columbia UP, 1997); editor of Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body (NYU Press, 1996), and co-editor of Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities(MLA Press, 2002).
Deadlines:
* September 1: Proposals due. Proposals should include a 100-word summary of your interest and previous involvement in the fields of disability and music and a 200-word description of the project. Submit via email attachment to disability.and.music@gmail.com. Participants will be notified of acceptance by September 15.
* December 15. Paper drafts due. These will be circulated to all participants (and to Prof. Garland-Thomson).
* January 3. Paper critiques due. Each participant will be asked to circulate written critiques of at least three papers by other participants.
Each participant will receive a stipend of $350 to encourage participation and defray expenses.
All events will take place at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016. For additional information, contact Joseph Straus jstraus@gc.cuny.edu, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton SJensenMoulton@brooklyn.cuny.edu, or Blake Howe blake.howe@gmail.com
Call for Papers
The Ph.D. Program in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center and The M.A. Program in Disability Studies at the CUNY School for Professional Studies
announce
A Symposium on Music and Disability
January 15 - 17, 2010
The Symposium will be more a workshop or seminar than a traditional conference. There will be fewer than fifteen participants, and each will have an ongoing research project on music and disability. The Symposium will be primarily devoted to discussion and critique of these works-in-progress, which may include future conference presentations, book or dissertation chapters, and articles. Four three-hour discussions around the seminar table (Friday afternoon, Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon, Sunday morning) will be interspersed with meals, lectures, and musical performances. Lectures and performances will be open to the public, but the seminar meetings will be open only to Symposium participants.
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson will be the Keynote Speaker for the Symposium and the Respondent for all of the papers. She is Professor of Women's Studies at Emory University and the author of Staring: How We Look(Oxford UP, 2009) and Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Literature and Culture(Columbia UP, 1997); editor of Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body (NYU Press, 1996), and co-editor of Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities(MLA Press, 2002).
Deadlines:
* September 1: Proposals due. Proposals should include a 100-word summary of your interest and previous involvement in the fields of disability and music and a 200-word description of the project. Submit via email attachment to disability.and.music@gmail.com. Participants will be notified of acceptance by September 15.
* December 15. Paper drafts due. These will be circulated to all participants (and to Prof. Garland-Thomson).
* January 3. Paper critiques due. Each participant will be asked to circulate written critiques of at least three papers by other participants.
Each participant will receive a stipend of $350 to encourage participation and defray expenses.
All events will take place at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016. For additional information, contact Joseph Straus jstraus@gc.cuny.edu, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton SJensenMoulton@brooklyn.cuny.edu, or Blake Howe blake.howe@gmail.com
Call for Articles: Special Issue on Universal Design and ICT
Call for Articles: Special Issue on Universal Design and ICT
Call for Papers for a Peer-Reviewed Special Issue of Journal of Usability Studies
Information and Communications Technology - or Technologies (ICT) is an overarching term that includes all technologies for the manipulation and communication of information. It encompasses any medium to record information (magnetic disk/tape, optical disks such as CD/DVD, flash memory etc. and arguably also paper records); technology for broadcasting information - radio, television; and technology for communicating through voice and sound or images - microphone, camera, loudspeaker, telephone to cellular phones. It includes the wide variety of computing hardware (PCs, servers, mainframes, networked storage), the rapidly developing personal hardware market comprising mobile phones, personal devices, MP3 players, and much more, especially the rapid growth in digital information.
ICT has become an essential tool in education, employment, lifestyle and recreation. Most people rely on ICT products both in their daily routine, as well as for focused and more specialised activities. For example, telephones and the internet are used to make dentist appointments and airline reservations, ordering take-out food, calling relatives, communicating with customers and colleagues, participating in conference calls at work or in school, and making emergency calls. In addition, those concerned with specialized communication activities use ICT for distance learning, telecommuting, and videoconferencing, etc. The mobile phone has grown from a simple voice-to-voice communication device to being a camera, music player, hard drive and lifestyle accessory that many people have come to depend on.
Designing any product or interface involves the consideration of many factors, including aesthetics, ergonomics, engineering, environmental issues, safety concerns, industry standards, and cost. Typically, when including people in this process, designers only consider the average user and rarely include people of different ages and abilities. In contrast, universal design (UD) is the design of products, environments, and communication to be usable by the widest number of people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design. The concept can also be referenced as inclusive design, design-for-all, lifespan design or human-centered design.
Specifically, barriers to standard electronic and information technology can severely limit opportunities to education and employment for some people with disabilities and reduce lifestyle choice and independence in communicating with friends, family and social networks around them. This includes telecommunications equipment and services. For example, part of a multimedia tutorial that uses voice narration without captioning or transcription is inaccessible to students with hearing impairments. Similarly, using a computer mouse can be difficult for people with reduced dexterity and scrolling through digital menus can feel unnatural for people with cognitive or sensory impairment or those uncomfortable with the digital world. A software program that requires an unnecessarily high reading level may also be inaccessible to some people who have learning disabilities.
However, specialized software and hardware that is aimed at specific disabilities have enabled certain marginalised groups to successfully use ICT, though this can be generally categorised as assistive technology. For example, a person with visual impairments may use a screen reader program with a speech synthesizer to access the content and functionality of a program. But such a system only provides access to the text presented on the screen and to keyboard commands. It does not allow that visually impaired user to view graphics or to access features that require the use of a standard mouse. Although assistive technologies can give access and
independence to severely disabled users, their relevance to mainstream users and hence their positioning within Universal Design needs to be further explored.
To ensure access to all potential users, it is important that software and hardware designers, engineers and producers continue to challenge the status quo of ICT with the objective of minimising barriers to people who are currently excluded on the grounds of age or ability whilst developing products and services that build on assistive technology solutions.
This special issue provides a global forum for presenting authoritative references, academically rigorous research and case studies in both theoretical development and applied research. The aim of this special issue is to capture and publish the latest thinking on a variety of topics related to Universal Design and ICT.
We are inviting people from both academia and industry to submit articles relevant to the following topics:
-- Web Design and Accessibility for People of different ages or abilities
-- Methods and Processes for Designing Universal Products, Interfaces and Systems
-- Methods for Evaluating Usability and Accessibility
-- Products and Systems that go beyond an ergonomic approach to create accessible lifestyles and give greater choice
-- Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction with an emphasis on Universal Design
-- Assistive Hardware and Software Tools for Universal Design
-- Designing for a Specific Target Group and Reducing Stigmatisation
-- Rethinking usability within the context of Universal Design and ICT
-- Universal Design as a Strategic Tool for Product or Service Innovation
-- Universal Design and Standardisation
-- Universal Design and Legislation
-- The Business and Politics of Universal Design and ICT
Articles on these and other themes related to Universal Design and ICT will introduce JUS readers to this important and growing area of practice and research.
Deadlines for submission
Submission of manuscripts - July 31, 2009
Reviews back to authors - October 2, 2009
Revised manuscript submitted - November 6, 2009
Final decision notification - November 30, 2009
Expected publication date - February, 2010
Any specific instructions for submissions
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere
All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the "Submission Guideline and Review Criteria" page You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail (details in Author Guidelines) to the following editors:
Assoc. Prof. André Liem
Department of Product Design
Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Kolbjørn Hejes vei 2B
N-7491 Trondheim
NORWAY
E-mail: andre.liem@ntnu.no
Rama Gheerawo
Research Fellow
Programme Leader, Research Associates
Helen Hamlyn Centre
Royal College of Art
Kensington Gore
London SW7 2EU
United Kingdom
E-mail: rama.gheerawo@rca.ac.uk
Dr. Sarah J. Swierenga,
Director MSU Usability & Accessibility Center (UAC)
Michigan State University
Kellogg Center, Garden Level
East Lansing,
Michigan 48824-1022
United States of America
E-mail: sswieren@msu.edu
Only upon acceptance, authors will be asked to transfer the article to the JUS template (see "Submission Guideline and Review Citeria" page).
The Online International Journal of Usability Studies (JUS) is a peer-reviewed, international, online publication dedicated to promote and enhance the practice, research, and education of usability engineering. Submission guideline and Review Criteria is to be found at:
http://www.upassoc.org/upa_publications/jus/submit.html
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