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CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE APRIL FIRST 2009

Medical Anthropology at the Intersections:  Celebrating 50 Years of 
Interdisciplinarity
An International Conference of the Society for Medical Anthropology
Sept 24-27, 2009 - Yale University
We are inviting participation in an organized session entitled:

Extending Disability Beyond Medicine's Borders: A Five Fields Symphony

Lakshmi Fjord and Devva Kasnitz, Co-Organizers. Sponsored by the 
Disability Research Special Interest Group of the SMA

As more anthropologists include disability research in their field 
studies and populations, and as the interdisciplinary field of 
disability studies grows, the time has to come to make a better case 
for the significance of disability theory to anthropological canon in 
the five fields: cultural, linguistic, biological/physical, 
archaeology, and applied.  An historic tie between disability and 
medicine, between notions of stigma and medicalization, has 
characterized the study of disabled people and their personhood in 
American anthropology.  However, for people whose bodies are all too 
often reduced to a medical interpretation and rarely recognized for 
the critical lens they offer onto social inequalities and injustices, 
the role of critical disability theory to anthropological and 
interdisciplinary scholarship needs to be better understood and applied.

Over several decades, anthropologists working in diverse geographic 
regions have linked their field research on disability to the bread 
and butter issues of anthropology, including gender, "race," 
ethnicity, nationalism, indigeneity, kinship, globalization, 
sexuality, and religion.  In this session, panelists will link their 
current research to one or more of anthropology's five fields, and to 
more encompassing interdisciplinary issues.  Our aim is to initiate 
conversations about what disability theoretical and methodological 
frameworks bring to the table for anthropologists and others working 
within the humanities, social science, and science regarding research 
design, methods, and fieldwork; to theoretical understandings of 
social disparities and inequalities; and how different groups, from 
families to nations, cope with perceived embodied differences in 
abilities to perform linguistically, in work, in kinship 
expectations, in art, and all meaningful cultural domains.

Some possible topics:

* Linguistics: signed languages and identity or national language 
politics; speech and communication adaptations; discourse analysis; 
sociolinguistics; how "slowing down" for disabled people's needs 
links to larger fieldwork issues about listening, watching, and being 
patient with respondents; ethics when working across language systems

* Citizenship and disability: the relation between nation-building 
projects and notions of "us" and "them"; indigeneity and personhood;

* Kinship and disability: families with disabled children, disabled 
parents; courtship and marriage; cross-ability marriages;

* Advocacy and "the field": when the field is "home," learning about 
disability through firsthand experience; participation in social 
justice movements; United Nations Treaty on the Rights of Persons 
with Disabilities and the discourse of human rights in local 
contexts; allyhood; links with feminist and race advocacy and 
histories; why advocacy is not for "special needs," but for to 
redress systematic inequalities;

* Political economy of disability: links with gender, "race," and 
ethnicity and immigration currently and historically; disability and 
work; transportation needs and economics;

* Inclusive design or universal design: architecture currently; 
archaeological examples from the past (or why stairs were not always 
the built answer); how disabled people locate cracks in systems and 
offer creative strategies towards inclusion for all members of societies;

* Fieldwork and ethnographic writing: autoethnography and 
experimentations with writing about experiential expertise;

* Applied work: medical clinics; occupational therapy and field 
schools; how we apply critical disability into everyday life.

Abstract information:

Abstracts for papers and media presentations should be no longer than 
200 words.  Please send you proposed abstract to: Lakshmi Fjord: 
[log in to unmask]; and Devva Kasnitz: [log in to unmask]

Deadline for first drafts is April first so we can submit the session 
by April 15th to SMA

Once we have created the session, as per the conference instructions, 
we will submit your abstract as part of our session. "Abstracts for 
presentations to be included in pre-organized panels and workshops 
should be submitted together by the organizer(s), along with a 
panel/workshop abstract."

Everyone submitting an abstract must complete the online registration 
individually by April 15th. Notification about the status of 
submissions will be sent out by June 30, 2009 to the e-mail address 
provided in the abstract.



Cell Phone: 510-206-5767

Devva Kasnitz, PhD
Institute of Urban and Regional Development
University of California, Berkeley

EMAIL: <[log in to unmask]>

Eureka Home Mailing Address:
1614 D St
Eureka, CA 95501
Voice: 707-443-1973  
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<div align=3D"center">please excuse cross posting<br><br>
CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE APRIL FIRST 2009<br>
</div>
&nbsp;<br>
<div align=3D"center"><b>Medical Anthropology at the Intersections:&nbsp;
Celebrating 50 Years of Interdisciplinarity<br>
</b>An International Conference of the Society for Medical
Anthropology<br>
Sept 24-27, 2009 - Yale University<br>
<b>We are inviting participation in an organized session entitled:<br>
</b></div>
&nbsp;<br>
<div align=3D"center"><b><u>Extending Disability Beyond Medicine=92s Borders=
:
A Five Fields Symphony<br>
</u></b>&nbsp;<br>
Lakshmi Fjord and Devva Kasnitz, Co-Organizers. Sponsored by the
Disability Research Special Interest Group of the SMA <br>
</div>
&nbsp;<br>
As more anthropologists include disability research in their field
studies and populations, and as the interdisciplinary field of disability
studies grows, the time has to come to make a better case for the
significance of disability theory to anthropological canon in the five
fields: cultural, linguistic, biological/physical, archaeology, and
applied.&nbsp; An historic tie between disability and medicine, between
notions of stigma and medicalization, has characterized the study of
disabled people and their personhood in American anthropology.&nbsp;
However, for people whose bodies are all too often reduced to a medical
interpretation and rarely recognized for the critical lens they offer
onto social inequalities and injustices, the role of critical disability
theory to anthropological and interdisciplinary scholarship needs to be
better understood and applied. <br>
&nbsp;<br>
Over several decades, anthropologists working in diverse geographic
regions have linked their field research on disability to the bread and
butter issues of anthropology, including gender, =93race,=94 ethnicity,
nationalism, indigeneity, kinship, globalization, sexuality, and
religion.&nbsp; In this session, panelists will link their current
research to one or more of anthropology=92s five fields, and to more
encompassing interdisciplinary issues.&nbsp; Our aim is to initiate
conversations about what disability theoretical and methodological
frameworks bring to the table for anthropologists and others working
within the humanities, social science, and science regarding research
design, methods, and fieldwork; to theoretical understandings of social
disparities and inequalities; and how different groups, from families to
nations, cope with perceived embodied differences in abilities to perform
linguistically, in work, in kinship expectations, in art, and all
meaningful cultural domains.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  <br>
&nbsp;<br>
Some possible topics: <br>
&nbsp;<br>
* Linguistics: signed languages and identity or national language
politics; speech and communication adaptations; discourse analysis;
sociolinguistics; how =93slowing down=94 for disabled people=92s needs links=
 to
larger fieldwork issues about listening, watching, and being patient with
respondents; ethics when working across language systems<br>
&nbsp;<br>
* Citizenship and disability: the relation between nation-building
projects and notions of =93us=94 and =93them=94; indigeneity and personhood;
<br>
&nbsp;<br>
* Kinship and disability: families with disabled children, disabled
parents; courtship and marriage; cross-ability marriages;&nbsp; <br>
&nbsp;<br>
* Advocacy and =93the field=94: when the field is =93home,=94 learning about
disability through firsthand experience; participation in social justice
movements; United Nations Treaty on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities and the discourse of human rights in local contexts;
allyhood; links with feminist and race advocacy and histories; why
advocacy is not for =93special needs,=94 but for to redress systematic
inequalities; <br>
&nbsp;<br>
* Political economy of disability: links with gender, =93race,=94 and
ethnicity and immigration currently and historically; disability and
work; transportation needs and economics; <br>
&nbsp;<br>
* Inclusive design or universal design: architecture currently;
archaeological examples from the past (or why stairs were not always the
built answer); how disabled people locate cracks in systems and offer
creative strategies towards inclusion for all members of societies; <br>
&nbsp;<br>
* Fieldwork and ethnographic writing: autoethnography and
experimentations with writing about experiential expertise;<br>
&nbsp;<br>
* Applied work: medical clinics; occupational therapy and field schools;
how we apply critical disability into everyday life.&nbsp; <br>
&nbsp;<br>
Abstract information: <br><br>
Abstracts for papers and media presentations should be no longer than 200
words.&nbsp; Please send you proposed abstract to: Lakshmi Fjord:
[log in to unmask]; and Devva Kasnitz: [log in to unmask]&nbsp;
<br><br>
<b>Deadline for first drafts is April first so we can submit the session
by April 15th to SMA<br><br>
</b>Once we have created the session, as per the conference instructions,
we will submit your abstract as part of our session. =93Abstracts for
presentations to be included in pre-organized panels and workshops should
be submitted together by the organizer(s), along with a panel/workshop
abstract.=94<br><br>
<b>Everyone submitting an abstract must complete the online registration
individually by</b> <b>April 15<sup>th</sup>. </b>Notification about the
status of submissions will be sent out by June 30, 2009 to the e-mail
address provided in the abstract.<br><br>
<br>
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<font color=3D"#800080"><b>Cell Phone: 510-206-5767<br><br>
</font>Devva Kasnitz, PhD<br>
</b>Institute of Urban and Regional Development <br>
University of California, Berkeley<br><br>
<b>EMAIL:</b> &lt;[log in to unmask]&gt;<br><br>
<b>Eureka Home Mailing Address:<br>
</b>1614 D St<br>
Eureka, CA 95501<br>
<b>Voice: </b>707-443-1973 </body>
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