A note to list-serve colleagues: DAAD -supported participants for this
institute are limited to US and Canadians (yes, Canadians!!!!) at one
end -- with interested parties beyond Germany welcome at the other.
However, we do NOT wish to endorse national exclusivity in this
project. Please post far and wide and please contact us if you have
ways to partner in next summer's endeavor -- no matter country of
origin, background, or disability status (the DAAD website also offers
scholarships for graduate students and we seek ways to define your
involvement, too)! Our intent is to have a dedicated study commission
and scholarly coalition that works across disabilities and disciplines.
The funded element detailed below need only serve as a fulcrum for
shared efforts. We hope you'll join us. Sincerely, Sharon and David
AN INVITATION FOR APPLICANTS
Interdisciplinary Summer Seminar on Disability Studies and the Legacies
of Eugenics
Einstein Forum, Potsdam
July 5th – July 30th, 2004
Deadline for Faculty Applications: January 15, 2003
The topic of the 2004 seminar, "Disability Studies and the Legacies of
Eugenics,” seeks to understand the contemporary situation of disabled
people in Germany today through an assessment of the historical facts
surrounding the killing of more than 240,000 disabled people during
World War II. To assess this legacy, the seminar will contemplate the
development of German Disability Studies and its critique of practices
in modern day disability arenas such as education, medicine,
rehabilitation, genetics, and bio-ethics. The program includes visits
to contemporary memorial sites, archives, and former T-4 locations. In
addition to seminar sessions, four public lectures by contemporary
scholars in German disability studies will be offered as featured
events, and open to the public, as a part of the Einstein Forum lecture
series. The seminar organizers are Professor David Mitchell and
Professor Sharon Snyder.
For further information about seminar content and organization, please
contact the PhD program in Disability Studies at the University of
Illinois at Chicago: <[log in to unmask]>. For further information on the
topic see A World Without Bodies (a documentary video that is available
from Program Development Associates, at Amazon, and from the producers).
ELIGIBILITY AND APPLICATION PROCEDURES
1. Faculty members and recent PhDs at universities and colleges in the
United States and Canada from various fields in the humanities and
social sciences may apply. Graduate students and Ph.D. candidates are
not eligible.
2. Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United
States or Canada.
3. Participants are expected to have an active interest in German
intellectual and cultural history.
Tuition and Associated Costs: There is a $50 course fee and a $175
surcharge for roundtrip accessible bus transport to Bernberg and
Hadamar from Potsdam.
Housing: Nearby accessible housing will be available at the University
of Potsdam.
Scholarships: The scholarship amounts to $3,200 and is intended to
defray in whole or in part the cost of travel to and from Potsdam, room
and board, books, and other research expenses incurred in connection
with the seminar.
Seminar Requirements: Participants are required to attend all sessions
and to participate actively in the work of the seminar. A written
report is expected within four weeks of the end of the seminar.
Application Guidelines: All parts of the application must be typed and
submitted in duplicate (original and one copy). Please do not staple
materials.
A complete application consists of the following parts:
1. DAAD application form entitled "Interdisciplinary Summer Seminar in
German Studies.” Please answer all questions on the form, even if you
refer to additional material. Forms are available from the directors.
2. Curriculum vitae and complete list of publications.
3. A detailed statement explaining why the applicant wants to attend
the seminar.
4. One letter of recommendation, to be sent directly to the University
of Illinois at Chicago, PhD Program in Disability Studies.
Applications postmarked 15 January or earlier will be accepted. Those
with later postmarks cannot be processed. Applicants will be notified
about the results of the competition by February 15, 2003.
Ph.D. Program in Disability Studies Tel: (312) 996-1508
University of Illinois at Chicago Fax: (312) 996-0885
1640 W. Roosevelt Rd. (M/C 526) Email: [log in to unmask]
Chicago, IL 60608
DISABILITY STUDIES AT THE EINSTEIN FORUM
The Einstein Forum promotes the exchange of ideas across disciplinary
as well as national borders. The Forum is located at the University of
Potsdam, in the State of Brandenburg, and situated about 25 km
southwest of the city center of Berlin.
The institute will focus upon the research and scholarship of
disability studies in Germany. There has been a major response to the
recent exhibition at the Gropius Bau and the Dresden Hygiene Museum on
“The Imperfect Person,” and to the accompanying programs and
multi-authored essay collections that accompanied it. As a result, this
seminar will build upon a continuing public and scholarly interest in
the history and culture of people with disabilities, and the relation
of that culture to scholarship and political practice.
The basic structure of the seminar will work as follows: participants
will meet 4 days a week for 2-3 hours of seminar discussions. There
will be at least 1 public lecture per week. These lectures will be
selected to address key controversies in German disability studies
including: the historical legacy of Western eugenics in the U.S. and
Europe; the role of special education and integration/segregation; the
implications of modern day genetics practices for disabled people;
contemporary policies and laws regarding disability accommodation and
citizenship status; and the development of the German disability rights
movement. In all, the seminar will sponsor 4 public lectures in
English over the course of the seminar by Dr. Sander Gilman, Dr. David
Mitchell & Dr. Sharon Snyder, Dr. Anne Waldschmidt, and Dr. Theresia
Degener. There will also be coordinated public showing of films. All
participants will have the opportunity to attend two excursions to the
psychiatric institution memorial sites during the first two weeks of
the institute. By the end of the seminar, participants will produce
new teaching materials, draft classroom plans, and prepare notes for
annotated bibliographies based upon the information presented in the
seminar.
Sponsored by:
*DAAD (the German Academic Exchange Service) http://www.daad.org/
*UIC’s Humanities Laboratory http://www.uic.edu/las/humlab/
*Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany
http://www.uni-potsdam.de/u/einsteinforum/
*UIC’s PhD Program in Disability Studies
http://www.ahs.uic.edu/ahs/php/index.php?sitename=dis
*UIC’s Dept of Disability and Human Development
http://www.ahs.uic.edu/ahs/php/?sitename=dhd
In partnership with: The Society for Disability Studies and the German
Disability Studies Network.
The purpose of the summer seminar is to promote the interdisciplinary
study of historical, political, social, and cultural aspects of modern
and contemporary German affairs and to advance their understanding
among scholars in the United States and Canada. The program is open to
faculty members and recent PhDs from the social sciences, disability
studies, and cultural studies fields. The directors' faculty websites
are at: http://www.ahs.uic.edu/ahs/php/content.php?type=7&id=57 and
http://www.ahs.uic.edu/ahs/php/content.php?type=7&id=132.
RELATED INFO: a central databank of the German Federal Archives has
just been released at
www.bundesarchiv.de/findbuecher/stab/euth/einfueh.php. A new article
on the release of this research information may be found at
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/327/7419/832-a.
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