Dear Listmembers,
I am once again writing to encourage conference paper submissions for the disability studies panels at the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Conference to be held this year in Buffalo, New York from November 5-7, 2005. I have been organising these panels since 2001, and I would like to begin with a very grateful thank-you to listmembers who have contributed their time and effort to present at this conference in the past--if you have participated in the past, have considered participating, or are just hearing about this annual event for the first time, please consider coming to this year's conference--the panels can be as ambitious and far-ranging as we choose to make them!
I would like to invite submissions from both academics and non-academics working on issues relevant to disability studies in any academic discipline or other field of endeavour. Small, supportive conference atmosphere has, in the past, drawn quality submissions from the US, Canada, Italy, and one proxy participant from India. Unfortunately, there is no conference funding available to pay for travel costs. The number and kind of panels developed is shaped by the nature of the submissions received. Some previous panels have explored: disability studies itself, different historical or cultural views of disability, contemporary government and social support (or lack thereof) for persons with disabilities, disability activism (from legal action to alternative media), representations of disability in popular culture, particularly film, TV, autobiography and literature, and the educational system and persons with disabilities. I am open to further explorations of these topics!
or other areas of inquiry entirely.
Papers should be twenty minutes in length (about ten pages double-spaced). Please submit your name, institutional affiliation (if any), the title of your paper, any a.v. requests, and a brief abstract of your talk. Please feel free to email me off-list with any questions you may have about attending this year's conference.
Please submit by June 30th. Thank-you for your consideration,
Holly Crumpton
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