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Avoidance in/and the Academy The International Conference on Disability, Culture, and Education 11th-12th September 2013. Centre for Culture and Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University, UK This is an incomplete and rough draft of the event for which we are extending the proposal deadline to June 1 2013. If you would like to submit a 200 word proposal please send it to the conference email address ([log in to unmask]). For further information please visit the CCDS website (http://ccds.hope.ac.uk/avoidance.html ). For booking information, please visit the online shop (http://store.hope.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=6&modid=2&compid=1). Keynotes Sharon L. Snyder (Independent Scholar, USA). Brenda Brueggemann (Ohio State University, USA). Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Emory University, USA). Panel: Disability in/and the US Academy “Diversionary Diversity Projects: Disability as Bio-Political Objects of Avoidance in Higher Education” – David T. Mitchell (University of Michigan, USA). Moving from Accessibility to Inclusive Academic Discourses: Enabling the Higher Education Curricula with Disability Theory Perspectives – Sushil K. Oswal (University of Washington, USA). I am Adam Lanza: Disclosure in the Academy after the Newtown Shootings – Lou Thompson (Texas Woman’s University, USA). Panel: Disability in/and the UK Academy ‘It Was Like That When I Got Here’, A Prospective Exploration of Some Reasons for Academic Critical Avoidance of Disability Studies – Lisa Davis (Edge Hill University, UK). Does the social model of disability represent a paradigmatic shift in understanding in the education and training of disabled people? – Peter Wheeler (Edge Hill University, UK). Dysrationalia: An Institutional Learning Disability? – Owen Barden (Liverpool Hope University, UK). “Crippled inside?” An analysis of how institutionally impaired narratives may disable counter discourses, and disempower the agency of impaired staff in a Further Education College – Joel Petrie (Liverpool Community College, UK). Panel: Disability Studies and the Future Building Rome: Negotiating Place and Space for Disability Studies during a Squeeze on Higher Education – Rebecca Mallett and Jenny Slater (Sheffield Hallam University, UK). Disability Studies/Not Disability Studies/Not Not Disability Studies – Susan Schweik (U.C. Berkeley, USA). A Different Diversity?: Disability Studies Perspectives for Post-Secondary Diversity Agendas – Lauren Shallish (Syracuse University, USA). Launch New Disability Studies MA (Liverpool Hope University, UK). Panel: Disability and Disciplines Validating Critical Avoidance: Professional social work, mental health service users/survivors and the academy – Kathy Boxall (University of Sheffield, UK) and Peter Beresford (Brunel University, UK). Words for Dignity: Aspects of managing disability – Maria Rita Hoffmann and Maria Magdolna Flamich. (Eötvös Loránd University of Science, Budapest, Hungary). Conquering Avoidance in International Service Learning – Maria Truchan-Tataryn (independent scholar) and Myroslaw Tataryn (St. Jerome's University, Canada). Dis/Ability, Gender and Neuro-Prosthesis – Heike Raab (Universität Innsbruck, Austria). Wants and needs: Marketing and disability – Tom Coogan (University of Birmingham Business School). Red Shirts and Black Holes: Academic practice, avoidance and affect – Diane Carr (Institute of Education, University of London, UK). Panel: Disability Studies and the Arts Fabulous Invalids Together: Why Disability in Mainstream Theater Matters – Ann M. Fox (Davidson College, North Carolina, USA). Disability Studies Within Creative Writing: A Practical Approach to Theory – Cath Nichols (University of Leeds, UK). InVisible Difference: how the academy can support the disabled dancer – Hannah Donaldson (University of Exeter, UK). Launch Literary Disability Studies – a new book series. Panel: Disability and Victorian Studies ‘Embarrassing to Read’: Masculine Disability in Dinah Mulock Craik’s A Noble Life – Theresa Miller (University of Western Australia). Panel: Literary Disability Studies and Modernity “How I Can Go On: The Displeasure of Modernity’s ‘Murphy’ and his Textual Biopower” – Chris Ewart. (Simon Fraser University, Canada). “Signifying Otherness in Modernity: The ‘Subject’ of Disability in The Sun Also Rises and The Sound and The Fury” –Will Kanyusik (University of Minnesota, USA). The Social Model of Disability and Modern Critical Responses to Stefan Zweig’s Beware of Pity – Emmeline Burdett (Independent Scholar, UK). Panel: Literature, Culture, and Place Blind Spots: The (In)Visibility of Blindness in French Culture – Hannah Thompson (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK). Enabling Scottish Literary Studies: How Disability Matters in/to Scottish Writing – Arianna Introna (University of Stirling, UK). Disability Imagery and Approaches to Caste-Conflicts: An Analysis of Untouchable as a Primary Text on Caste Oppression – Hemachandran Karah (CSDS, New Delhi). ________________End of message________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about list administration should be sent to [log in to unmask] Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page.