MeCCSA
Disability Studies Network
Currents
in the Mainstream - Where are we going?
22nd
September, De Montfort University
CALL
FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Confirmed
speakers include Dr Paul Darke* and Deborah A Williams*
Disability
images of the1980s and 1990s have received significant critical
attention, but there has been little work to date on the development
of disability imagery in the 2000s, especially in relation to new or
changing representations of disability, disabled people's
participation within these processes, and the impacts of new media
and changes in production, distribution and reception. This day
conference aims to re-visit and re-evaluate the complex issues at
stake in contemporary representations of disability and impairment
from a variety of critical perspectives, investigating both
continuities and new trends in representing disability. We encourage
submissions (papers or otherwise) which examine how
representation work is encouraged or circumscribed by questions of
disability identity,funding, distribution and audiences. The
conference will also reflect on the relationship between disability
art and and new disability imagery
Topics
may include:
- disabled performers, directors and media workers
-
mainstream film with disability themes
- mainstream television
with disability themes
- disabled people in media industries
-
the politicisation of disability images
- 'Post- disability'
genres
- disability and comedy
- disabled people and Reality
TV/ documentary
- gender, sexuality, ethnicity, the body
-
the non-disabled gaze
Proposals
of approximately 200 words for a 20-30 minute presentation
should
be sent to the organisers, Alison and Margaret at [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask],
by revised deadline of 30th July.
*Deborah
Williams – is a writer,
theatre-maker, producer,digital composer and accredited
coach with thirty years experience working across the sector as an
artist, consultant and manager. She is an artist provocateur
who's work is acknowledged as a catalyst for challenge and change in
perceptions of disability and difference
*Dr
Paul A. Darke
Dr Darke is an internationally respected
academic, writer and cultural critic who has written and created
extensively around the issue of identity and culture. He is also the
originator of Normality Theory. As an artist Paul Darke is bringing,
to various art forms, new insights and exciting concepts which
challenge conventional views of both art and society.
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