(Apologies for not being able to provide a French version)
Greetings! These are the upcoming deadlines for the 2009 CDSA-ACEI
conference.
1. March 1, 2009--to submit your academic poster proposals for the 2009
CDSA-ACEI conference. You can find further information at
http://www.cdsa-acei.ca/cfppenglish.html
2. March 10, 2009--to send in your nominations for the 1st Annual Tanis Doe
Award for Canadian Disability Study and Culture.
CDSA-ACEI Call for Nominations for the 1st Annual Tanis Doe Award for
Canadian Disability Study and Culture
President Marcy Epstein of the Canadian Disability Studies
Association-Association Canadienne des Études sur l'Incapacité (CDSA-ACEI)
is pleased to announce the inauguration of the annual Tanis Doe Award for
Canadian Disability Study and Culture which will be awarded at the CDSA-ACEI
annual meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, this upcoming May.
Named for the activist and professor Tanis Doe, who died in 2004, this award
honours an individual who dares to "speak the unspeakable" in advancing the
study and culture of disability, and who has enriched the lives of Canadians
with disabilities, through research, teaching, or activism.
Letters of Nomination should be sent as an email attachment in MS Word
format to [log in to unmask]
Letters of Nomination should be 1 to 3 pages in length and include:
1. Name, affiliation, phone number, complete mailing address, and email
address of the nominee.
2. Name and contact information for the person making the nomination.
3. The research, teaching, or advocacy achievement or achievements of the
nominee that that merit consideration for this award.
4. A brief biographical sketch of the nominee.
Criteria is either a Canadian or a Permanent Resident who works in Canada.
Self-nominations are accepted.
Deadline for nominations is Tuesday March 10, 2009.
The winner of the 2009 Tanis Doe Award will be acknowledged at the 2009
CDSA-ACEI conference and will receive a commemorative plaque plus $100
(Canadian dollars).
Any individual can submit a nomination, but an individual may only submit
one nomination in any award-cycle year.
Sincerely,
The CDSA-ACEI Executive Board
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Dawna Lee Rumball, Doctoral Student
President-Elect, Canadian Disability Studies Association /
Association Canadienne des Études sur l'Incapacité
Department of Educational Studies
Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia
2125 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4
Email: [log in to unmask]
Web-site: http://www.cdsa-acei.ca/
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