Hi all
I understand that there may be one or two places left on this conference
for postgraduate students...
Please contact Clare Barker [log in to unmask]
Cultural Locations of Disability:
Situating a Cultural Disability Studies
A One-Day Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference
20 February 2008
Leeds Humanities Research Institute, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT
Conference Programme
9-9.30am Welcome, registration, coffee
9.30-10.30am Keynote address: Dr. Stuart Murray, University of Leeds
10.30-11am Coffee
11-12.30pm Panel 1: Disability Representation in the Arts (Chair:
Suzanne Ibbotson)
1) Irene Rose, Liverpool John Moores University, Title TBC
2)Terry Speake, University of Bolton, 'Towards a New Praxis of Social
Documentary Photography: What is Wrong with Disability Imagery?'
3) Ria Cheyne, Liverpool John Moores University, Title TBC
12.30-1.30pm Roundtable Discussion: Situating Cultural Disability
Studies in the UK
Panelists: TBC
1.30-2.30pm Lunch
2.30-4pm Panel 2: Disability in Culture and Society (Chair: TBC)
1) Ruth Garbutt, University of Leeds, 'Let's Talk About Sex: Using Drama
as a Research Tool to Find Out the Views and Experiences of Young People
with Learning Disabilities'
2) Yi-Ting Shih, University of Newcastle, 'Developing from a Disabled
Environment: The Disability Movement in Taiwan'
3) Clare Barker, University of Leeds, Title TBC
4-4.30pm Coffee
4.30-5.30pm David Bolt, editor of the Journal of Literary Disability
5.30-7pm Drinks reception, School of English Foyer
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