> Dear All,
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> It is our greatest pleasure to let you know that a small group of researchers in the field of Disability Studies in Hungary could hold an introductory conference titled: Disability Studies: results and perspectives, at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary on November 26. It was the first ever conference on DS in our country. The keynote speakers were Professor György Könczei, an internationally acknowledged researcher who has been committed to DS for approximately thirty years, and his colleague Ms Ilona Hernádi, Drs. Their lecture introduced and mapped DS, so that the audience of 114 registered participants could have a deeper understanding of the relatively new discipline. The title was: Mapping Disability Studies.
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> Then came my friend, Maria Flamich's and my presentation, titled: Perspectives of Cultural Disability Studies in Promoting Respect of Diversity, on the constantly-haunting power of stereotypes and cultural disability studies as a device to influence or weeken that power. The reason why we were askedy by Prof. Könczei to lecture on this topic was that our country failed to support our participation in the Liverpool Conference, Avoidance in/and the Academy, so our planned Liverpool presentation formed the integral part of our talk. We intended to highlight that the ignorance of the existence of lived-experince-based knowledge and tradition would mean a huge loss in any society. We concluded that ignorance may have an unfavourable effect on inclusion.
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> Our presentation was followed by another talk based mainly on disability-related statistical data, titled: Disabled Questions, Questionable Disability Affairs. The data were presented by Ms Ildikó Laki.
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> The third lecture introduced Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and Enfreakment, a book published by Cambridge University Press (2012), as one of the authors was a Hungarian historian, Ms Anna Kérchy, PhD. It was Ms Kérchy from the English Department of the University of Szeged, who introduced the book.
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> Finally, the members of our DS Doctoral Workshop lead three workshops discussing the Guidelines for Research Ethics in DS and Critical DS compiled by Prof. Könczei and his colleague Ms Anikó Sándor.
> The conference was accessible, and numerous persons with disabilities attended.
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> Something has, perhaps, started in Hungary, too.
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> Thank you all for the mental and spiritual support!
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> Best regards:
> Rita Hoffmann
> Maria Flamich
>
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