CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Syracuse University Graduate Student Conference:
DESEGREGATING DISABILITY STUDIES:
AN INTERDICIPLINARY DISCUSSION
October 6-7, 2000
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York
The department of Cultural Foundations of Education began offering a
certificate of study in Disability Studies during the 1997-98 school year.
The focus of this program is to consider disability within the context of
society, rather than as individual pathology. Conceived in this way, the
connections and relevance of disability to a wide variety of disciplines
become immediately apparent: sociology, medicine, social work, social
policy, architecture, art history, anthropology, comparative religions,
philosophy, law, popular culture, media and film, literature, history and
education.
The purposes of the conference are to: 1) highlight the interdisciplinary
nature of disability studies and; 2) provide an opportunity for graduate
students from a variety of disciplines to present their work on a topic
related to disability, broadly
conceived.
Topics of papers/presentations might include:
Bio-medical ethics/right to life
Discourses of special education
Inclusive education
Socialization of disability "professionals"
Representation of disability in literature media, popular
culture,textbooks
Philosophy of autonomy
Disability oppression
Intersectionality
Tension between medical model and social construction
Autobiographical accounts
Family perspectives
History of disability in a particular cultural location
Critical legal perspectives
Adaptive technologies
Cross-cultural comparisons
Possible Roundtable Discussions:
-the role of a non-disabled researcher
-opportunity to present disability studies works-in-progress
-intersectionality
-Disability Rights
-Deaf as a linguistic minority
-advocacy
We welcome all proposals.
Paper presentations are reports or research, theoretical discussions,
critical reviews, etc. Please request 30 or 60 minutes, but a final time
allocation will be made by the conference committee.
Roundtables allow for presenters to describe their work and foster
discussion around their topic. 45-60 minutes are allotted for
roundtables.
One roundtable session will be devoted to works-in-progress, providing an
opportunity for students to present work and get feedback from other
students and professors from a variety of disciplines.
Proposals should include:
-Name
-Affiliation
-Address/e-mail address/phone
-Preferred format (paper with time request, roundtable, work-in-progress)
-Title of presentation
-A 500 word (2 page) abstract of the paper/work to be presented.
-Audio-visual needs (we will contact you if we cannot meet your need)
-A brief one-paragraph biographical statement about the presenter(s)
Please send proposals to Nancy Rice, 350 Huntington Hall, Syracuse,
New York 13244, Email: [log in to unmask]
Proposals due by April 10, 2000
This event is co-sponsored by the following departments, organizations and
schools of Syracuse University: The Center on Human Policy, Cultural
Foundations of Education, School of Education, Graduate Students
Organization, School of Law, Social Science, Sociology, The Doctoral
Program in Special Education, Teaching & Leadership, Women's Studies.
Nancy Rice
Cultural Foundations of Education/
The Facilitated Communication Institute
http://soeweb.syr.edu/thefci
315/443-3137 fax: 315/443-2274
370 Huntington Hall
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244
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