From: "Martha Rose" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 6:11 PM
Subject: Crossroads/DISC clarification
As a follow-up/correction to the recent call for syllabi:
the OLD CROSSROADS SYLLABI have been downloaded and will be re-loaded on
DISC once their owners register. So, rather than sending your old
Crossroads syllabi to Dennis, just go to DISC and register.
Thanks,
Martha Rose
Below is more information about DISC.
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DISC: A Disability Studies Academic Community
The DISC website is an international, interdisciplinary, user-generated,
digital forum providing support, collegial networks, and information
that sustains a disability studies academic community and promotes
disability studies in a humanities focus. DISC is built by the
disability studies community through your contributions of information.
DISC offers the opportunity for exchanging and locating information
about research, teaching, resources, texts, program and syllabi
development, professional opportunities, funding sources, and access
guidelines. It serves, too, as a digital repository for
multidisciplinary syllabi, an interdisciplinary bibliography, archives
of conference presentations, listserv discussions, and exhibits focusing
on disability studies. DISC primarily serves scholars, teachers,
students, librarians, and/or program administrators in higher education
who are interested in or practice disability studies in a humanities
context. Taken together, its contents answer fully the question of what
the new field of disability studies in the humanities does.
The field of disability studies is circumscribed by the limitations of
physical variations as well as location in time and space. DISC is not a
substitute for physical communal interchange, rather it augments and
facilitates such material communal activities. DISC makes isolated and
uncoordinated, often inaccessible, events into an integrated, connected,
and open community fully accessible to everyone who wishes to
participate. DISC is the glue that holds together, supports, and
launches the knowledge generated at such diffuse, multiple learning
sites as classrooms, professional conferences, collegial gatherings,
museums, locations of individual and group research, and other academic
locations concerned with disability.
DISC was developed at and is hosted by the Maryland Institute for
Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland (MITH) and
will be maintained by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson at Emory University.
Visit the DISC site at http://mith2.umd.edu:8080/disc/index.html or go
to the MITH homepage at
http://www.mith.umd.edu/research/projectlist.html and click on the DISC
project name.
Begin by signing yourself in as a user and contributor. Then explore the
site and contribute to our community.
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Archives and tools for the Disability-Research Discussion List
are now located at:
www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html
You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page.
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