Perhaps of interest. Felicity Callard
------ Forwarded Message
From: [log in to unmask]
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 11:20:44 -0800 (PST)
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: CFP: Disability and Queerness (2/1/02; 6/2/02-6/3/02)
DISABILITY AND QUEERNESS: The First International Conference
June 2-3, 2002 at San Francisco State University
Call for Papers, Workshops, Performances, and Art of All Kinds: Due
February 1, 2002
In the last three decades disabled people and
lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered people have taken to the streets and
entered the academy. We’ve built movements for social change, created
culture and community, and shaped our own theory and analysis. But almost
never have the issues, concerns, and experiences of queer disabled people
been placed front and center. The Queer/Disability Conference aims to
bring together artists, activists, and scholars to explore the matrix
formed by queerness and disability.
INTERESTED? COME JOIN IN:
· Disability activists engaging in issues concerning queer
identities
· Queer activists grappling with disability issues
· Artists pulling together strands of crip and queer cultures
· Scholars making connections between Disability Studies and Queer
Studies
· Queers/crips looking for community
· Advocates and allies invested in these intersections
We are looking for papers, panels, performances, videos, paintings,
workshops, readings, and more to create three concurrent tracks: 1)
scholar/theory, 2) activist/community, and 3) artist/cultural.
Possible topics include:
— Histories of disability, homosexuality, and transgender/transsexual
identities
— HIV/AIDS, cancer, and disability
— Genetic testing the notion of a cure, the medicalization of our bodies
— Intertwining of race, class, sexuality, gender identity, and disability
— Sex, sexuality, desire, erotica
— Representations of queerness/disability in literature, film, and popular
culture
— Deaf/Queer issues
— Global LGBT disability activism
— Impact of disability on gender identity and of gender on disability
identity
— Passing, Pride, and non-apparent disabilities
— Violence, hate crimes, and abuse
— Compulsory heterosexuality and able-bodiedness
— Q/D marginalizations—Bi and trans identities, cognitive and psychiatric
disabilities
— Ableism, homophobia, and transphobia
— Queers, disability, and services
— Blind/Queer issues
— Intersex: and disability connections
Sponsored by the Disabled Women’s Alliance, the Presidential Chair for
Undergraduate Education at UC Berkeley, the Disability Studies Program at
UC Berkeley, and the Institute on Disability at San Francisco State
University.
If you'd like to present at the conference, please send the following
information to [log in to unmask] or Alison Kafer, 310 N. Indian Hill,
Box 325, Claremont CA 91711. All proposals are due by February 1, 2002.
Presenters will be notified by March 21, 2002. Sessions are 90 minutes
long.
Name:
E-mail address:
Postal Address (optional):
Phone (optional):
Title of Presentation:
If presenting with others, names of co-presenters:
Abstract or Description of Presentation (500 words maximum):
Brief Description of Presentation for Use in Program (50 words maximum):
Track:
Academic
Community
Cultural
Format:
Panel
Performance
Workshop
Other (e.g., Poster, Exhibit, Display. Please explain)
Access Needs:
Sign Language Interpreter
Language Preferred: ASL Signed English Oral
Deaf/Blind
Wheelchair Access
Braille
Audiotape
Large Print
Real Time Captioning
Audio-Visual and Other Equipment Needs:
Overhead Projector
Slide Projector
VCR / Monitor
We are looking for a wide range of people to present at the conference. To
help us pay attention to the diversity of the presenters, please briefly
describe your relationship to, or interest in, queerness and disability.
No one will be excluded on the basis of their response.
FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO VOLUNTEER:
Email [log in to unmask] On the web at
www.disabledwomen.net/queer
REGISTRATION INFO: Available on website after February 1, 2002.
===============================================
From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List
[log in to unmask]
Full Information at
http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/
or write Erika Lin: [log in to unmask]
===============================================
------ End of Forwarded Message
|