Kate, and all,
the Canadian event is in the preliminary stages of planning, has been
proposed to the SSHFC Congress officials (a requirement for new
events/societies), but is tentatively scheduled to take place on two days:
either May 28-29 or May 29-30. Deborah Steinstra (at U of Manitoba), the
proposed Program Chair, who is co-ordinating the planning, will probably
make announcements on disability-related lists very soon.
In addition to this event, we want to ensure that those attending the
Congress know about Disability Studies sessions that are to be held in the
various societies. Last year in Halifax, there were several Disability
Studies sessions in the meetings of a number societies (in addition to the
sessions I posted notices about here), but it was really through the
grapevine, and often at the last minute, that one found out about these. We
want to co-ordinate and disseminate information about sessions of interest
to disability scholars in advance of the Congress. I don't know if a
website will be built for any of the aforementioned activities. Deborah
will have more to say about this, I'm sure.
Best regards,
Shelley Lynn Tremain
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kate Kaul" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: SDS 2004 conference CFP and Canadian event
> Does anyone have more information on the Canadian event -- perhaps a web
> site?
>
> Thanks,
> Kate
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Disability-Research Discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Shelley Lynn
> Tremain
> Sent: October 7, 2003 12:49 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: SDS 2004 conference CFP
>
> Dear Carol, and all,
>
> I would like to suggest that the Program Committee of SDS reconsider the
> dates which it has chosen for the next SDS conference.
>
> The current dates (June 3-6, 2004) conflict with the Social Science and
> Humanities Federation of Canada Congress which will take place in
> Winnipeg
> from May 29-June 6, 2004. This the major academic event in Canada,
> bringing
> together over 70 academic societies in the social sciences and
> humanities.
>
> Many of us in Canada will be attending the SSHFC event, as we have
> commitments and obligations to various societies within the Federation.
> Some of these commitments are directly related to disability studies.
> In
> addition, the 2004 Congress will be especially pertinent to scholars in
> disability studies because (1) Winnipeg is a focal area for work on
> disability; and (2) the inaugural meeting of a Canadian disability
> studies
> association is tentatively planned to be held during the Congress.
>
> If it is not possible to adjust the dates of the SDS conference in St.
> Louis, I hope that future SDS Program Committees will take this
> potential
> conflict into account.
>
> I should note that I sent this message not only to draw attention to
> this
> scheduling conflict, but also to inform people in Canada who work in
> disability studies (and who find travel to, and accommodation in, the US
> too
> expensive given the exchange rate) that there will be alot happening
> around
> disability studies at the Congress in Winnipeg next June. Hoping to
> meet up
> with some of you there.
>
> Best regards,
> Shelley Lynn Tremain
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carol J. Gill" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 11:32 AM
> Subject: SDS 2004 conference CFP
>
>
> > PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY
> >
> > Call For Papers: Society for Disability Studies 17th Annual Conference
> > June 3-6, 2004: St. Louis, Missouri
> >
> > "Dissent and Dialogue: Re-Envisioning Academic and Activist Landscapes
> >
> > St. Louis's cultural history speaks importantly to this year's
> conference
> > theme, "Dissent and Dialogue: Re-Envisioning Academic and Activist
> Landscapes.
> > " 2004 marks the 100-year anniversary of the 1904 World's Fair, held
> in
> this
> > year's SDS conference city, St. Louis. Used to celebrate new
> technologies
> and
> > the intersection of multiple cultures, the fair was also a place where
> people
> > called "defectives" were put on display as curiosities and "burdens."
> > Although we are 100 years past those events, the exclusion and
> categorization
> > of humans as abnormal on the basis of disability still occurs with
> profound
> > implications for disabled populations around the world. St. Louis is
> an
> > American cultural and geographic crossroads, the "Gateway to the
> West";
> what
> > gateways and opportunities can we now identify and create, emerging
> from
> this
> > point in disability studies' development?
> >
> > We invite papers specifically directed toward a plenary session
> surrounding
> > the St. Louis World's Fair and the shift in attitudes toward
> disability
> > between that era and our own. We welcome all creative and rigorous
> scholarship
> > in disability studies, as well as submissions based on the prompts
> below.
> >
> > Unpacking the Rhetoric of Inclusion: Opening Dialogues With Disability
> > Papers are invited that consider questions such as: what does
> inclusion
> mean
> > in disability studies as it intersects with other elements of human
> diversity?
> > How can social science, health policy, and humanistic approaches to
> > disability inform one another? What are the major areas of social
> policy
> that
> > call for action from people with disabilities today? How can
> disability
> > studies keep its academic and activist edge in the face of increasing
> academic
> > legitimacy? How can the expansion and growth of disability activism
> and
> > disability studies be made possible without reproducing norms,
> oppressing,
> or
> > ignoring others? How can meaningful alliances be forged between
> majority
> and
> > minority world activists and academics?
> >
> > We encourage scholarship on the intersections possible with (and
> within)
> > disability and disability studies: disability and medicine; social
> policy
> and
> > disability; the history of race and disability history; the immigrant
> > experience and disability; law and disability rights; disability and
> > queerness; disability and class; disability rights and HMOs;
> > postcolonialism/third world politics and disability; feminism and
> disability;
> > public and private space intersecting with personal rights to access.
> Where
> > can disability studies scholarship reformulate the discourse and
> methods
> of
> > academic fields that have either ignored disability, or used it in
> highly
> > specific ways? How can we address hierarchies between physical and
> cognitive
> > disabilities? Where is the place for personal assistance workers and
> sign
> > language interpreters within disability studies?
> >
> > Discussing the Terms of Disability Studies
> > We invite papers that interrogate disability studies and its terms,
> its
> > assumptions, its tendencies, and its directions. What are the
> multiple,
> > sometimes conflicting, dialogues within disability studies? What
> important
> > dialogues need to happen within disability studies? What conversations
> within
> > disability studies need to be challenged, questioned, (re)defined,
> > (re)interrogated, (re)invented? How can disability studies, science,
> and
> > policy reciprocally intersect and inform one another?
> >
> > Teaching Disability: What is Disability Pedagogy?
> > We especially welcome papers exploring questions fundamental to
> creating
> > dialogue about disability pedagogy. For example, how can teachers help
> > students see alternatives to models of charity and pity? What are
> strategies
> > for creating discourse based in disability theory in "mainstream"
> classes?
> > How can professors mentor students toward becoming disability studies
> > scholars? What issues are at stake when disabled/nondisabled
> professors
> teach
> > disability studies classes? How might taking the access requirements
> for
> > diverse audience members into consideration result in presentation
> modalities
> > that are new, exciting, and encourage a full range of dialogue? How
> might
> > imaginative thinking, spurred on by access requirements, pose new
> > possibilities for intellectual discourse?
> >
> > We would like to reemphasize for presenters the centrality of
> accessible
> > presentations to the philosophy and scholarship of SDS. Presenters
> should,
> at
> > minimum, plan on making their presentations fully accessible to all
> SDS
> > attendees. This includes providing hard copy and large print hard
> copies
> (17
> > point font or larger), e-text versions of papers in advance of their
> delivery
> > (for open captioning), providing audio description of visual images
> and
> > charts, and supplying summaries and handouts as necessary.
> Presentations
> > should also be planned so that their delivery will accommodate
> captioning
> and
> > ASL translation within time constraints. However, we especially
> encourage
> > presenters to think about how implementing accommodations might be
> used to
> > enhance and reimagine traditional modes of conference presentation.
> >
> > The deadline for proposals is December 15, 2003. We plan to notify
> > participants of their acceptance by February 15, 2004. All abstracts
> will
> be
> > fully reviewed and scheduled by the 2004 SDS Program Committee: Sumi
> Colligan
> > and Ann Fox (co-chairs), and committee members Nirmala Erevelles, Jim
> Ferris,
> > Cathy Kudlick, Linda Long, Robert McRuer, and Sharon Snyder.
> >
> > Due to many excellent proposals, SDS faces an increasing limitation on
> the
> > number of presentation slots available at the conference. We ask that
> those
> > whose papers are chosen, and who commit to attend the SDS conference,
> avoid
> > last-minute cancellation of attendance if at all possible; this will
> almost
> > certainly deny other presenters the chance to share their work.
> >
> > Please submit proposals electronically (using MS Word) to both Judy
> Holst,
> the
> > SDS Executive Assistant at [log in to unmask] and Carol Gill at
> [log in to unmask]
> >
> > Questions about the conference program should be directed to Ann Fox,
> at
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> > If electronic submission is not possible, please mail or fax proposals
> to
> > arrive by December 15 to:
> > Judy Holst
> > Executive Assistant, SDS
> > Dept. of Disability and Human Development
> > University of Illinois-Chicago
> > 1640 W. Roosevelt Rd. (M/C 626)
> > Chicago, IL 60608-6904
> > Fax: 312-996-7743
> >
> > Proposals should include the following information:
> > 1) Title of presentation, panel, or performance;
> > 2) Contact information: name, affiliation, mailing address, phone
> number,
> and
> > e-mail for each presenter;
> > 3) Format of your proposal:
> > ___ Paper presentation (15 minute presentation)
> > ___ Panel (1 and 1/2 hour block for presentation of 3-4 papers by
> presenters.
> > Please note that panel proposals require BOTH an abstract that
> includes a
> > 250-word description of the panel topic AND a 250 word abstract for
> each
> > participant.)
> > ___ Workshop (1 and 1/2 hour application of a specific program or
> exercise)
> > ___ Presentation (literary reading, dance, video/film, etc.)
> > ___ Other (we welcome inventive presentation possibilities)
> > 4) Abstract (250 words) with the following: Title and author(s) or
> > performer(s); explicit
> > statement of the thesis, findings, or significance; description of
> content
> and
> > structure; information on how this presentation will be made
> accessible;
> > audiovisual requirements (please note we cannot guarantee LCD
> projection
> for
> > presenters).
> >
> >
> > Carol J. Gill, Ph.D.
> > Executive Officer, Society for Disability Studies
> > c/o Department of Disability and Human Development
> > University of Illinois at Chicago (M/C 626)
> > 1640 West Roosevelt Road, Room 236
> > Chicago, IL 60608
> > (312) 355-0550 V
> > (312) 996-7743 (fax)
> > (312) 996-4664 TTY
> >
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