12th & 13th May 2010
10 - 4pm Each Day
Critical Disabilty Studies Conference *Theorizing Normalcy and the Mundane*
Free conference co-hosted by University of Chester; Manchester Metropolitan University and Sheffield Hallam University
Venue: John Dalton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University. Lecture room 5
Venue: http://www.mmu.ac.uk/travel/allsaints/
This two day conference brings together an international group of disability studies researchers. This call for papers seeks
contributions around the following areas:
* Understanding normal and normalcy
* Making sense of and challenging ableism
* Addressing our obsession with reason and rationality
* Questioning the push to make children hyper-normal
* Exploring when normal becomes normalised
* Examining the ways in which normalc and ableism function on the level of the everyday / mundane
* Bringing together ideas from the human and social sciences and humanities
Key Note speakers will include Professors Rod Michalko and Tanya Titchkosky (both University of Toronto)
Deadline for paper abstracts - January 31st 2010.
Deadline for attendance - March 31st 2010
Abstract and attendance email Dan Goodley: [log in to unmask]
Suggestions for hotels near to conference venue;
www.ibis.co.uk
www.princessonportland.co.uk
www.jurysdoyle.com
www.principal-hotels.com
Dan Goodley
Professor of Psychology and Disability Studies
Manchester Metropolitan University
RIHSC
Psychology and Social Change
Gaskell Campus
Manchester, M13 0JA
Tel: (+44) 0161 247 2526
Fax: (+44) 0161 247 6842
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.rihsc.mmu.ac.uk/
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"Does every child matter, post Blair?
The interconnections of disabled childhoods"
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