Transformative Difference: Disability, Culture and the Academy
Wednesday 7th and Thursday 8th September 2011
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Len Barton
Prof. Fiona Kumari Campbell
Prof. Dan Goodley
Prof. Stuart Murray
It is now widely recognised that a critical engagement with disability has the power to transform how we research and teach in a range of disciplinary areas – from education to medicine to the humanities and beyond. At the same time, conceptions of disability (and ability) are constantly changing, with shifting attitudes, new models, and the work of activists and educators to create a more equal society. This multidisciplinary conference seeks to explore how disability may function as a “transformative difference” in the academy, as well as how changing attitudes toward disability might have an impact on a range of subject areas. In particular, the conference will explore the following issues:
- How might an engagement with the difference of disability challenge, enrich, or transform work in particular disciplines?
- How do changing attitudes towards and perceptions of disability affect research, teaching, and scholarship in different fields?
- How does the inclusion of a Disability Studies perspective transform disciplines that have not traditionally embraced this standpoint?
- What are the challenges of, or barriers to, engaging with disability (and Disability Studies) in disciplines that have not traditionally done so?
We welcome submissions for research strands or panels, group or individual papers and presentations in alternative formats.
Suitable topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Disability and education (including teacher education, early years, further/higher education, and teaching and learning in Disability Studies)
- Disability and the humanities
- Disability in the sciences and social sciences
- Disability studies, medicine and health sciences
Abstracts (max 250 words) with a brief biography (max 150 words) are invited for submission by April 4th 2011. Please send enquiries to the coordinator Irene Rose: [log in to unmask]
Dr. David Bolt
Lecturer, Disability Studies
http://www.hope.ac.uk/boltd
Director, Centre for Culture & Disability Studies
ccds.hope.ac.uk
Editor, Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies
http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/121628
Email: [log in to unmask]
Telephone 0151 291 3346
Postal address@ Faculty of Education, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, L16 9JD
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