Might well have a go at submitting sommat to this one. I am actually
reserching for a book I intend to write at the moment, which essentialy
examines the sociology of the construction of autism as a disability and
regards it somewhat in the light of Urban legend, in that particular
interest gruops cleave to there own particular interpretation of the
autistic phenomenon and propoagate that, showing how this is leading away
from a sensible discours on autism as each particular cause effectively
disenfranchises or invalidates the other.
I resent the way that outsiders study autism as if we were the latest
variant on the Trobriand Islanders and incapable of raising any discourse
ourselves,
Unfortunatly I could never attend such a conference in person as it would
involve travel to the US something I would not be prepared to undertake
without a lot of support to ensure I am not turned back by immigration as I
would not be travelling by air, rather I would need to travel with a
commercial shipping company.
Larry
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> Hi
>
> my colleague Stuart Murray in the School of English drew attention to
> this interdisciplinary conference in the US. Please reply to
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> Best wishes
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> Mark
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nicholas Petzak
> Sent: 27 March 2005 17:45
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> Subject: CFP: Representing Autism: Writing, Cognition, Disability
> (6/15/05; SCE, 10/28/05-10/29/05)
>
> Representing Autism: Writing, Cognition, Disability
> A conference hosted by the SCE (Society for Critical Exchange)
>
> Disability Studies has largely overlooked the culture and discourses of
> cognitive disabilities. Nonetheless, one cognitive disorder has begun to
> receive a great deal of attention both in the academy and in the popular
> media:
>
> Autism. The success of fictional works (e.g., Mark Haddon's The Curious
> Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) and nonfictional books and films
> by and about Autism/Asperger's people has fueled this attention.
>
> But though a number of educational, clinical and medical approaches to
> Autism Spectrum Disorders have emerged and yielded a large body of
> publications, the fascinating and potentially fruitful relationships
> between Autism/Asperger's and the humanities have barely been explored.
> With the recent dramatic rise in diagnoses of
> Autism, it is particularly urgent that we undertake such an exploration.
> This conference, therefore, aims to bring together scholars in the
> humanities and the cognitive sciences in order to shed new light on the
> nature and forms of autistic representation and to trace the lines of
> connection and demarcation between Autism/ Asperger's writing and
> thinking and that of more typical human beings.
>
> We seek proposals for papers, panels, and workshops that discuss the
> relationships between Autism Spectrum Disorders and representation. How
> is Autism/Asperger's depicted in literary works, on film and television,
> in clinical discourses, in legal documents and other textual sources?
> What novel forms does autistic creativity
> assume? How does autistic representation--whether by or merely about
> autists--enable us to reconsider "normal" modes of representation? What
> do these representations reveal about the nature of human cognition,
> ability and sociability?
>
> Topics may include (but are not limited to) the following:
>
> Autism as Text
> Autistic Cultures
> Filming Autism
> Writing Autistically
> Autism and TV
> Autism and Autobiography/biography
> Autism and the Law
> The Politics of Autism/Asperger's
> Autism in History/Histories of Autism
> Writing for Autists
> Children's Literature and Autism
> Hyperlexia
> Autism and Alternate Textualities (e.g., graphic arts, assistive
> technologies, etc.) Fictions of Autism Stereotypes and Stereotypies The
> Poetry of Autism/Autism as Poetry Autistic Speech vs. Autistic Writing
> Autism and Deconstruction/Deconstructing Autism Criticism and
> Autism/Autistic Critics
>
> Please send paper abstracts, panel and workshop proposals, (no full
> papers please!) as well as a CV no more than two pages by June 15, 2005
> to Mark Osteen. mosteen[at]loyola.edu Department of English Loyola
> College in Maryland 4501 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21210
>
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