Does anyone have more information on the Canadian event -- perhaps a web
site?
Thanks,
Kate
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From: The Disability-Research Discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Shelley Lynn
Tremain
Sent: October 7, 2003 12:49 PM
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Subject: Re: SDS 2004 conference CFP
Dear Carol, and all,
I would like to suggest that the Program Committee of SDS reconsider the
dates which it has chosen for the next SDS conference.
The current dates (June 3-6, 2004) conflict with the Social Science and
Humanities Federation of Canada Congress which will take place in
Winnipeg
from May 29-June 6, 2004. This the major academic event in Canada,
bringing
together over 70 academic societies in the social sciences and
humanities.
Many of us in Canada will be attending the SSHFC event, as we have
commitments and obligations to various societies within the Federation.
Some of these commitments are directly related to disability studies.
In
addition, the 2004 Congress will be especially pertinent to scholars in
disability studies because (1) Winnipeg is a focal area for work on
disability; and (2) the inaugural meeting of a Canadian disability
studies
association is tentatively planned to be held during the Congress.
If it is not possible to adjust the dates of the SDS conference in St.
Louis, I hope that future SDS Program Committees will take this
potential
conflict into account.
I should note that I sent this message not only to draw attention to
this
scheduling conflict, but also to inform people in Canada who work in
disability studies (and who find travel to, and accommodation in, the US
too
expensive given the exchange rate) that there will be alot happening
around
disability studies at the Congress in Winnipeg next June. Hoping to
meet up
with some of you there.
Best regards,
Shelley Lynn Tremain
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From: "Carol J. Gill" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 11:32 AM
Subject: SDS 2004 conference CFP
> PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY
>
> Call For Papers: Society for Disability Studies 17th Annual Conference
> June 3-6, 2004: St. Louis, Missouri
>
> "Dissent and Dialogue: Re-Envisioning Academic and Activist Landscapes
>
> St. Louis's cultural history speaks importantly to this year's
conference
> theme, "Dissent and Dialogue: Re-Envisioning Academic and Activist
Landscapes.
> " 2004 marks the 100-year anniversary of the 1904 World's Fair, held
in
this
> year's SDS conference city, St. Louis. Used to celebrate new
technologies
and
> the intersection of multiple cultures, the fair was also a place where
people
> called "defectives" were put on display as curiosities and "burdens."
> Although we are 100 years past those events, the exclusion and
categorization
> of humans as abnormal on the basis of disability still occurs with
profound
> implications for disabled populations around the world. St. Louis is
an
> American cultural and geographic crossroads, the "Gateway to the
West";
what
> gateways and opportunities can we now identify and create, emerging
from
this
> point in disability studies' development?
>
> We invite papers specifically directed toward a plenary session
surrounding
> the St. Louis World's Fair and the shift in attitudes toward
disability
> between that era and our own. We welcome all creative and rigorous
scholarship
> in disability studies, as well as submissions based on the prompts
below.
>
> Unpacking the Rhetoric of Inclusion: Opening Dialogues With Disability
> Papers are invited that consider questions such as: what does
inclusion
mean
> in disability studies as it intersects with other elements of human
diversity?
> How can social science, health policy, and humanistic approaches to
> disability inform one another? What are the major areas of social
policy
that
> call for action from people with disabilities today? How can
disability
> studies keep its academic and activist edge in the face of increasing
academic
> legitimacy? How can the expansion and growth of disability activism
and
> disability studies be made possible without reproducing norms,
oppressing,
or
> ignoring others? How can meaningful alliances be forged between
majority
and
> minority world activists and academics?
>
> We encourage scholarship on the intersections possible with (and
within)
> disability and disability studies: disability and medicine; social
policy
and
> disability; the history of race and disability history; the immigrant
> experience and disability; law and disability rights; disability and
> queerness; disability and class; disability rights and HMOs;
> postcolonialism/third world politics and disability; feminism and
disability;
> public and private space intersecting with personal rights to access.
Where
> can disability studies scholarship reformulate the discourse and
methods
of
> academic fields that have either ignored disability, or used it in
highly
> specific ways? How can we address hierarchies between physical and
cognitive
> disabilities? Where is the place for personal assistance workers and
sign
> language interpreters within disability studies?
>
> Discussing the Terms of Disability Studies
> We invite papers that interrogate disability studies and its terms,
its
> assumptions, its tendencies, and its directions. What are the
multiple,
> sometimes conflicting, dialogues within disability studies? What
important
> dialogues need to happen within disability studies? What conversations
within
> disability studies need to be challenged, questioned, (re)defined,
> (re)interrogated, (re)invented? How can disability studies, science,
and
> policy reciprocally intersect and inform one another?
>
> Teaching Disability: What is Disability Pedagogy?
> We especially welcome papers exploring questions fundamental to
creating
> dialogue about disability pedagogy. For example, how can teachers help
> students see alternatives to models of charity and pity? What are
strategies
> for creating discourse based in disability theory in "mainstream"
classes?
> How can professors mentor students toward becoming disability studies
> scholars? What issues are at stake when disabled/nondisabled
professors
teach
> disability studies classes? How might taking the access requirements
for
> diverse audience members into consideration result in presentation
modalities
> that are new, exciting, and encourage a full range of dialogue? How
might
> imaginative thinking, spurred on by access requirements, pose new
> possibilities for intellectual discourse?
>
> We would like to reemphasize for presenters the centrality of
accessible
> presentations to the philosophy and scholarship of SDS. Presenters
should,
at
> minimum, plan on making their presentations fully accessible to all
SDS
> attendees. This includes providing hard copy and large print hard
copies
(17
> point font or larger), e-text versions of papers in advance of their
delivery
> (for open captioning), providing audio description of visual images
and
> charts, and supplying summaries and handouts as necessary.
Presentations
> should also be planned so that their delivery will accommodate
captioning
and
> ASL translation within time constraints. However, we especially
encourage
> presenters to think about how implementing accommodations might be
used to
> enhance and reimagine traditional modes of conference presentation.
>
> The deadline for proposals is December 15, 2003. We plan to notify
> participants of their acceptance by February 15, 2004. All abstracts
will
be
> fully reviewed and scheduled by the 2004 SDS Program Committee: Sumi
Colligan
> and Ann Fox (co-chairs), and committee members Nirmala Erevelles, Jim
Ferris,
> Cathy Kudlick, Linda Long, Robert McRuer, and Sharon Snyder.
>
> Due to many excellent proposals, SDS faces an increasing limitation on
the
> number of presentation slots available at the conference. We ask that
those
> whose papers are chosen, and who commit to attend the SDS conference,
avoid
> last-minute cancellation of attendance if at all possible; this will
almost
> certainly deny other presenters the chance to share their work.
>
> Please submit proposals electronically (using MS Word) to both Judy
Holst,
the
> SDS Executive Assistant at [log in to unmask] and Carol Gill at
[log in to unmask]
>
> Questions about the conference program should be directed to Ann Fox,
at
> [log in to unmask]
>
> If electronic submission is not possible, please mail or fax proposals
to
> arrive by December 15 to:
> Judy Holst
> Executive Assistant, SDS
> Dept. of Disability and Human Development
> University of Illinois-Chicago
> 1640 W. Roosevelt Rd. (M/C 626)
> Chicago, IL 60608-6904
> Fax: 312-996-7743
>
> Proposals should include the following information:
> 1) Title of presentation, panel, or performance;
> 2) Contact information: name, affiliation, mailing address, phone
number,
and
> e-mail for each presenter;
> 3) Format of your proposal:
> ___ Paper presentation (15 minute presentation)
> ___ Panel (1 and 1/2 hour block for presentation of 3-4 papers by
presenters.
> Please note that panel proposals require BOTH an abstract that
includes a
> 250-word description of the panel topic AND a 250 word abstract for
each
> participant.)
> ___ Workshop (1 and 1/2 hour application of a specific program or
exercise)
> ___ Presentation (literary reading, dance, video/film, etc.)
> ___ Other (we welcome inventive presentation possibilities)
> 4) Abstract (250 words) with the following: Title and author(s) or
> performer(s); explicit
> statement of the thesis, findings, or significance; description of
content
and
> structure; information on how this presentation will be made
accessible;
> audiovisual requirements (please note we cannot guarantee LCD
projection
for
> presenters).
>
>
> Carol J. Gill, Ph.D.
> Executive Officer, Society for Disability Studies
> c/o Department of Disability and Human Development
> University of Illinois at Chicago (M/C 626)
> 1640 West Roosevelt Road, Room 236
> Chicago, IL 60608
> (312) 355-0550 V
> (312) 996-7743 (fax)
> (312) 996-4664 TTY
>
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