Dear Rosemarie
Congratulations on your new website. It looks very good, and I ahve signed up. But I have been
unable to use the database and get an "exception error" from the server - perhaps you need to
mention it to your Database or Server Adminstrator? I look forward to using it.
Evelyn Toseland
Webmaster
Faculty of Applied
University of the West of England, Bristol
> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 16:31:07 -0000
> From: "S.Tremain" <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: FW: H-Dis: Announcing DISC
> > ----------
> From: Penny L. Richards[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002
10:52 PM > To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: H-Dis: Announcing DISC >
> From: "Rosemarie Garland-Thomson" <[log in to unmask]> >
> Dear Colleagues, >
> I am pleased to announce the launching of DISC: A Disability Studies > Academic
Community website and to invite you to participate in > populating it. This database and the
DS-HUM listserv that is a part of > it will be a valuable resource for our educational
community. >
> For information, see below. Please distribute this widely in our > community.
> > Best,
> > Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
> >
> > DISC: A Disability Studies Academic Community
> > The DISC website is an international, interdisciplinary, user-generated,
> digital forum providing support, collegial networks, and information > that sustains a
disability studies academic community and promotes > disability studies in a humanities focus.
DISC is built by the > disability studies community through your contributions of information.
> > DISC offers the opportunity for exchanging and locating information
> about research, teaching, resources, texts, program and syllabi > development, professional
opportunities, funding sources, and access > guidelines. It serves, too, as a digital
repository for > multidisciplinary syllabi, an interdisciplinary bibliography, archives
> of conference presentations, listserv discussions, and exhibits focusing > on disability
studies. DISC primarily serves scholars, teachers, > students, librarians, and/or program
administrators in higher education > who are interested in or practice disability studies in a
humanities > context. Taken together, its contents answer fully the question of what
> the new field of disability studies in the humanities does. >
> The field of disability studies is circumscribed by the limitations of > physical variations
as well as location in time and space. DISC is not a > substitute for physical communal
interchange, rather it augments and > facilitates such material communal activities. DISC makes
isolated and > uncoordinated, often inaccessible, events into an integrated, connected,
> and open community fully accessible to everyone who wishes to > participate. DISC is the glue
that holds together, supports, and > launches the knowledge generated at such diffuse, multiple
learning > sites as classrooms, professional conferences, collegial gatherings,
> museums, locations of individual and group research, and other academic > locations concerned
with disability. >
> DISC was developed at and is hosted by the Maryland Institute for > Technology in the
Humanities at the University of Maryland (MITH) and > will be maintained by Rosemarie
Garland-Thomson at Emory University. >
> Visit the DISC site at http://mith2.umd.edu:8080/disc/index.html or go > to the MITH homepage
at > http://www.mith.umd.edu/research/projectlist.html and click on the DISC
> project name. >
> Begin by signing yourself in as a user and contributor. Then explore the > site and
contribute to our community. >
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Evelyn Toseland
Webmaster
Faculty of Applied Sciences
University of the West of England
Email: [log in to unmask]
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