Correction on the conference title to: Conversations and Connections across
Race, Disability, and Identity
>Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:30:12 -0600
>To: SDS Grad Student Listserv, SDS Listserv
>From: hammel <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: extension for SDS 2005 conference proposals
>
>>There has been an Extension for the Call for Papers for the 2005 Society for
>>Disabilities Studies 18th Annual Conference June 8th - 12th, 2005: San
>>Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA. "Conversations and
>>Connections across Race, Disability, and Identity"
>>
>>The new deadline is January 14, 2005.
>>
>>The San Francisco Bay area has long been a focal point of the disability
>>rights revolution; the 504 sit-in and the development of the independent
>>living movement are but two examples. While the disability studies community
>>has begun to examine and celebrate that cultural history, we have neglected
>>another crucial cultural component - the rich diversity of races and ethnic
>>groups that make up the population of people with disabilities. Disability
>>shows us that identity is multiple and shifting; and so this conference seeks
>>to begin to redress the historical ignoring of race - and people of color -in
>>disability activism as well as scholarship.
>>
>>
>>The disability movements in North America owe an enormous debt to the
>>African-American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Despite this
>>debt, the disability movements, including disability studies, have been
>>dominated by white people. Why has this happened, and at what cost? These
>>questions can produce even more complex answers when we consider race as a
>>social construct that extends beyond the simplistic binary of white/black to
>>also include those ethnic communities (e.g. Native Americans, Latino/Chicana,
>>Asian, Arab, etc.) that have been marked as the racialized Other in a white
>>dominant society. Critical examination of the contested terrain that haunts
>>disability and racial cultural politics is the theme of this gathering of
>>activists, artists, and academics. How inclusive is disability culture -
>>really? Why are race and disability so often considered mutually exclusive
>>categories? How can scholars and activists cross the lines of identity
>>politics to forge productive new alliances?
>>
>>
>>SDS invites community activists and artists as well as scholars to submit
>>proposals that engage questions of disability culture, race, and identity
>>in a
>>lively, critical, rigorous, and provocative manner. We invite proposals from
>>scholars across the academy, including cultural studies, health sciences,
>>policy studies, humanities, social sciences, and legal studies. We
>>welcome all
>>creative and rigorous scholarship in disability studies, including
>>submissions
>>based on the prompts below. We encourage work which makes physical, sensory,
>>and intellectual access an integral part of the presentation.
>>
>>*What are the different ways in which disability culture is defined,
>>described, delimited, debated, and defended? Who gets to decide what the
>>boundaries of disability culture are?
>>
>>*FA In what ways is racial segregation apparent in the Disability Rights
>>Movement, and why is disability the often-ignored discourse within racial
>>politics? In what ways do territorial concerns over who represents disability
>>and race play into the silence and separation?
>>
>>*In theoretical contexts, what concepts are deployed by scholars in both
>>disability studies and race studies that are distancing? For example, how do
>>scholars in both areas critically engage normative notions of autonomy,
>>rationality, and coherent subjectivities?
>>
>>*What are the material consequences of experiencing multiple oppressions? How
>>does the very idea of "access" become even more complex in an oppressively
>>racialized and ableist society?
>>
>>*Will placing race and disability in conversation with each other yield
>>unique opportunities for deconstructing oppression in both academic and
>>activist contexts?
>>
>>*In what ways do issues of class, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality further
>>complicate the possibilities of forging alliances across and within different
>>groups who struggle against social, cultural, and economic marginalization?
>>
>>Presentation Guidelines for Accessibility
>>
>>Accessibility in presentations is central to the philosophy of SDS.
>>Presenters
>>are encouraged to explore ways to make physical, sensory, and intellectual
>>access a fundamental part of their presentation. They should, at minimum,
>>provide 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),
>>and audio description of visual images and charts, as well as 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 re-imagine
>>traditional modes of conference presentation.
>>
>>
>>Guidelines for Submitting Proposals:
>>
>>
>>Proposals should include the following information:
>>1) Title of presentation, panel, poster, 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)
>>
>>
>>___ Poster session (Posters will be exhibited at a special 90-minute session
>>where authors will have an opportunity to meet and interact with conference
>>participants)
>>
>>
>>___ Panel (90-minute 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 (90-minute 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).
>>
>>
>>The extended deadline for proposals is January 2, 2005. We plan to notify
>>participants of their acceptance by February 15, 2005. All abstracts will be
>>fully reviewed and scheduled by the 2005 SDS Program Committee: Nirmala
>>Erevelles & Jim Ferris, (co-chairs), Alicia Contreras, Ann Fox, Joy Hammel,
>>Jesse Lorenz, and Alice Wong.
>>
>>
>>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 Susan Magasi,
>>the SDS Executive Assistant, at [log in to unmask], and Joy Hammel, Executive
>>Officer, at [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>>Questions about the conference program should be directed to Nirmala
>>Erevelles
>>at <[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] or Jim Ferris at
>><[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>>If electronic submission is not possible, please mail or fax proposals to
>>arrive by January 14, 2005 to:
>>
>>
>>Susan Magasi
>>Society for Disability Studies
>>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
>
>Joy Hammel, Ph.D., OTR/L
>University of Illinois at Chicago
>Departments of Occupational Therapy & Disability and Human Development
>Joint Doctoral Program in Disability Studies
>1919 W. Taylor St., Rm 311
>Chicago, IL 60612
>312-996-3513; 312-413-0256 (fax); [log in to unmask]
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