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From: Jacqueline Kool<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 1:02 PM
Subject: Announcement Disability Studies Conference & Call for Papers
Dear Sir or Madam,
Disability Studies in Nederland and VU University Amsterdam have the pleasure of inviting you to the International Disability Studies Conference:
"Diversity in Quality of Life",
December 2-4 2010, around World Disability Day,
Taking place at VU University, Amsterdam.
Disability Studies in Nederland wants to celebrate its first anniversary and the start of its research program with an international conference in cooperation with VU University, which supports this event as part of the lustrum agenda Freedom and Responsibility, on occasion of its 130th birthday. To promote the disability studies approach in The Netherlands the conference will focus on a key concept in mainstream academic approaches to disability, namely 'quality of life'. It raises the question of how this concept can be used in a disability studies perspective.
We invite scholars to further develop the concept of quality of life from a disability studies perspective by focusing on diversity. It presupposes that persons with disabilities possess a quality of life that is defined foremost by the appropriation of their own life-story. This involves active contribution of persons with disabilities that reflects differences between cultural perspectives, including non-western ones.
The conference will bring together about 200 people from various communities and nationalities. We aim to build bridges between the world of science, education and people with disabilities and their organisations.
We are happy to announce keynote speakers: Lennard Davis, Adrienne Asch, Simi Linton, Maya Thomas, and Lydia La Rivière Zijdel (to be confirmed).
Call for papers
During the conference their will be concurrent paper and poster presentations on the following themes:
1. To be or not to be? The connection between 'disability' and 'being'
2. What distinguishes disability studies?
3. How does disability experience affect quality of life?
4. Multi Cultural Perspectives on Quality of Life
In attachment you find the call for papers and posters and more information on the conference. You can also find the call and further information on our website: www.disabilitystudies.nl<http://www.disabilitystudies.nl/>
Please send this announcement and the call for papers to others in your network!
Best regards,
Jacqueline Kool
knowledgemanager
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