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

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:

• 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).
  

Please send submissions/project descriptions to her at headcase_anthology@yahoo.com

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:

• 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
  

Submission guidelines are as follows:

1. 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.
2. Articles must be submitted in either English of French. Authors must consent to the translation of their articles for publication.
3. 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.
4. Articles must be 3,000-7,000 words (including quotations, references, footnotes, tables, figures, diagrams, and illustrations).
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. We ask that authors are mindful of their language choices pertaining to disability and that they justify the use of controversial words.
8. Articles are peer-reviewed. Authors’ names and other identifying information must be removed in order to be sent to reviewers.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. Manuscripts must be entirely double-spaced (including quotations, notes, references) in 12-point Times New Roman font.
12. The Journal accepts footnotes, but only sparingly.

To submit, please register as an author on our website and undergo the submission process. Registration is free. If you have any questions, contact CDD Managing Editor Jen Rinaldi at cdsj@yorku.ca.

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

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:

http://www.pacrim.hawaii.edu/emailtemplate/callforpapers/

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.

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.

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