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Ninth Annual Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion & Disability:
Change, Challenge, & Collaboration
April 28 and 29, 2009
The Ohio State University's Columbus Campus
Session Proposals Are Due November 1, 2008 - Student Posters Due March 30, 2008
The Ninth Annual Multiple Perspectives conference continues the university's efforts to bring together a diverse audience to explore disability as both an individual experience and social reality that cuts across typical divisions of education & employment; scholarship & service; business & government; race, gender & ethnicity. This year's theme "Change, Challenge & Collaboration" reflects the critical place in history we occupy.
Between the last conference and this call for papers the United Nations has adopted the Convention on Disability, Congress passed a new GI bill benefiting veterans with disabilities, the Higher Education Opportunity Act which includes new disability funding and requirements, and redefined disability in the ADA Amendments Act of 2009; the U.S. Access Board is proposing changes in Section 508; and the Department of Justice is in the final stages of a comprehensive review and update of the regulations for the ADA.
* How does disability intersect with your work, your program and your students?
* How does the changing role of disability impact society and culture?
* How does evolving technology change the conception of disability?
For more information on the conference and details about paper submission, please visit
Http://ada.osu.edu/conferences/2009Conf/callforpapers09.html
"Disability Studies should serve as an access ramp between the disability community and research universities".
Paul K. Longmore
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong".
H.L. Mencken
"Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment".
Justice William J. Brennan
"Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious".
Gordon Gee
L. Scott Lissner,
University ADA Coordinator
Associate, John Glenn School of Public Affairs
Lecturer, Knowlton School of Architecture, Moritz College of Law & Disability Studies
Office Of The Provost, The Ohio State University
1849 Cannon Drive
Columbus, OH 43210-1266
(614) 292-6207(v); (614) 688-8605(tty)
(614) 688-3665(fax); Http://ada.osu.edu <http://ada.osu.edu/>
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