Thank you Susan for the attached information. You may want to look at this
Web site and conference on October 17 and 18. Sean Sweeney
Dear Colleagues,
As you know, the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation
Research (NIDRR) is hosting a major international conference entitled
Disability Studies: A Global Perspective on October 17-18, 2000. This
conference will serve as a major stepping-stone for the advancement of
Disability Studies in university curricula world wide. This conference will
also be NIDRR's first complete live Webcast event. The Webcast will be
accessible and interactive. The broadcast will be archived for six months
following the conference.
http://www.conwal.com/conference/conference.html
In an effort to offer participation in this progressive event to as many
people as possible, we are requesting your support to make the Webcast
available at your university. Please let Dr. Sweeney of NIDRR
([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and Barbara Rosen of
Conwal Incorporated ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>) if you
plan to "host" the Webcast at your university, as we are interested in
tracking the viewership of the conference. General information about the
conference is available at
<http://www.conwal.com/conference/conference.html>.
The address for the Webcast is www.connectlive.com/events/disabilitystudies.
This site will become active soon. Technical information to view the
Webcast will be available at the site. However, the information below is
provided from the Webcast contractor to assist you in planning for your
local event.
Sincerely,
Katherine D. Seelman, Ph.D.
Director
Technical Information for the Webcast
In order to view the video Webcast on your computer you will need to do both
of the following steps:
1. Download the RealMedia (version 7) Player by saving one of the
following to your disk/hard drive (it will take approximately 20 minutes on
a 28.8 kbps mode, but faster if you have a faster Internet connection:
* For Windows 95, 98
* For Windows NT
* For Mac OS 8.5 and newer
* For Mac OS 8.1
Windows 3.1 and Mac OS 7-8 systems are too old to support
this technology.
2. Find the file you have just downloaded onto your hard drive and then
double click on it in order to run the installation process, which takes
about a minute. Only after doing this will you be able to go back to the
video web page and then click on the video to view it. Note: If you are on
your corporate network, you may require a special configuration in order for
the video to pass through your corporate firewall (ask your computer
administrator for help on this). You can test your configuration to see if
you can see and hear video by clicking here and then viewing videos from the
sample page.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: susan fitzmaurice [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 8:23 PM
> To: Valorie Crooks; Steven Kurzman; SAndy Goodrick; Sally Johnston;
> Susan Peters; Sarah Triano; Through the looking Glass, National Resource
> Center for Parents with Disabilitie; William Roth; Vincente, Ana; Smith,
> Anne; Williams, Bob; UK Disability-Research; SAndra Grady;
> [log in to unmask]; Tuller, Jean; SAMPSON Lisa; Smith, Phil; Steve;
> Scotch, Richard; [log in to unmask]; Stephen Drake; Steve
> Taylor; Tom Shakespeare; Sampson, Tony; Tanis M. Doe
> Subject: Desgregating Disabilty Studies: An Interdisciplinary
> Discussion
>
> Apologies for Cross-Posting.
>
> Also accessible via:
> http://soeweb.syr.edu/thechp/conference_registration.html
>
>
> Graduate Student
> Conference
>
> DESEGREGATING DISABILITY STUDIES:
> AN INTERDISCIPLINARY DISCUSSION
>
> October 6-7, 2000
> Syracuse University
> Syracuse, New York
>
> Keynote Speakers:
> Rosemarie Garland Thomson
> Linda Ware
>
> Featured Speakers:
> Robert Bogdan
> Lucy Gwin
>
> DESEGREGATING DISABILITY STUDIES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY
> DISCUSSION
>
> 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;
>
> 2.provide an opportunity for graduate students from a variety of
> disciplines to present their work on a topic related to
> disability, broadly conceived; and
>
> 3.to connect with other students and faculty engaged in similar work.
>
> KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
>
> Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Associate Professor of English, Howard
> University
>
> Rosemary Garland Thomson is editor, with Brenda Brueggemann and Sharon
> Snyder of Enabling the Humanities: A Sourcebook for Disability Studies in
> Language and Literature. She is also the author of Extraordinary Bodies:
> Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature and
> Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body. Professor Thomson
> has received NEH funding to support discussions on the ways in which
> Disability Studies can be infused throughout the Humanities.
>
> Linda Ware, Assistant Professor Special Education, University of Rochester
>
>
> Linda Ware's recent publications include chapters in: Inclusion Education:
> International Voices on Disability and Justice; Education in the Global
> Economy: Politics and of School Reform; Towards Inclusive Schools; From Us
> To Them: An Inclusion in Education; and Teacher Personal Theorizing.
> Professor Ware's interests include the development of identity and
> resistance among youth with disabilities. She is also the parent of a son
> with a disability.
>
> FEATURED SPEAKERS
>
> Robert Bogdan, Chair, Social Science Program; Professor of Cultural
> Foundations of Education and Sociology Syracuse University
>
> Robert Bogdan is well known for his work in qualitative research methods,
> the history of disability, the life histories of former institutional
> residents, and cultural images of disability. He is author of Freak Show:
> Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit. His most recent book
> is
> Exposing the Wilderness: Early Twentieth-Century Adirondack Postcard
> Photographers.
>
> Lucy Gwin, Editor, Mouth Magazine Topeka, Kansas
>
> Lucy Gwin is author, activist, and editor of the radical disability rights
> magazine, Mouth: Voice of The Disability Nation, and is one of the
> creators
> of The Freedom Clearinghouse, a web site created to learn more about how
> people can stay in their own homes and out of nursing homes and other
> institutions.
>
>
> Some participants may have allergies or sensitivities to chemicals. We ask
> that you refrain from using perfumes and scented products on the days of
> the
> conference.
>
>
> Some of the conference presenters/presentations include: Russell S. Cohen,
> Teachers College, Columbia University Where's the Emics in Special
> Education Research?
>
> Valorie A. Crooks, School of Geography and Geology, McMaster University
> Images of Disability on Television: A Geographic Perspective
>
> Maude Falcone, Department of Cultural Foundations, Syracuse University The
> Dialectics of Development: Dr. Spock and the Making of the Normal Child
>
> Cindy Linden and Anne Cipri, Department of English, Syracuse University
> Bodies Like Us: Visibility and Invisibility as the Paradoxical Markers of
> (Dis)ability Identity
>
> Phyllis May-Machunda, Humanities and Multicultural Studies, Moorhead State
> University Popular Conceptions of Equality & Disability in Public
> Discourse
> about Education
>
> Cheryl G. Najarian and Laura Wadsworth, Department of Sociology and
> Special
> Education, Syracuse University Laura's Story: The Construction of a Life
> History Through Collaborative Communication
>
> Nancy A. Rosenau, Counselor Education, Western Michigan University Not
> Read
> Yet: The Representation of People with Disabilities in Counselor Education
> Textbooks
>
> Bonnie Shoultz and Perry Whittico Center on Human Policy, Syracuse
> University Who's Supporting Whom? Issues in the Self-Advocacy Movement
>
> Sarah L. Triano, Disability Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago An
> Examination of Wrongful Life Lawsuits from a Disability Studies
> Perspective: To Be or Not to Be? Better off Dead than Disabled
>
> This is just a partial listing. There will also be opportunities for
> conference participants to discuss works-in-progress.
>
>
>
> For more information on this conference, contact:
>
> Nancy Rice
> Email: [log in to unmask]
> 315-443-3137
> 350 Huntington Hall
> Syracuse, New York 13244
>
> This conference is sponsored by the following schools, departments and
> programs at Syracuse University:
>
> College of Law
> Counseling and Human Services
> Cultural Foundations of Education
> The Doctoral Program in Special Education
> Graduate Student Organization
> The National Resource Center on Supported Living and Choice at The
> Center of Human Policy
> School of Education
> Teaching & Leadership
> Social Science
> Sociology
> Study Council
> Women's Studies
>
>
>
> REGISTRATION FORM
>
> Name:_____________________________________________________________________
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>
> Address:__________________________________________________________________
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>
> __________________________________________________________________________
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> __________________________________________________________________________
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> Telephone:___________________ Please circle: voice/tty
>
> E-mail:________________________________________________
>
> Special needs or accessibility info:
>
> __________________________________________________________________________
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>
> Registration Fee:
>
> (Circle one)
>
> Before 9/7
>
> Friday only: $20 Saturday only: $15 Both days: $35
>
> After 9/7
>
> Friday only: $25 Saturday only: $20 Both days: $45
>
>
> Fees include program and lunch on Friday. Registrations will be accepted
> until program is full. Please make checks payable to Syracuse University.
>
> Send registration to:
>
> Desegregating Disability Studies
> c/o OPD, Syracuse University
> 250 Huntington Hall
> Syracuse, NY 13244-2340
> Questions: 315-443-4696
>
> Local Hotels:
>
> University Sheraton: 315-475-3000
> Genesee Inn: 315-476-4212
> University Tower Hotel: 315-479-7000
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