1998 CALL FOR PAPERS
ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR DISABILITY STUDIES
The 1998 Society for Disability Studies (SDS) conference will be held at
the Oakland Marriott City Center Hotel in Oakland, California, on June
4-7, 1998. SDS is a nonprofit educational organization established to
promote interdisciplinary research on humanistic and social scientific
aspects of disability and chronic illness. This year's meeting will focus
upon the theme of disability in international contexts. While all papers
and presentations are welcome as in past years, we would especially
encourage work that explores global themes and issues pertinent to the
lives of people with disabilities.
This announcement solicits abstracts for individual paper presentations,
organized paper sessions, panels, workshops, roundtables, or performances
on a wide range of topics and approaches to work in disability studies.
Because one of the organization's main missions is to promote
interdisciplinary scholarship, we are particularly interested in proposals
that address an array of cross-disability issues such as: disability
policy, disability rights movements, images of people with disabilities in
media, disability culture(s), the relationship of disability to other
ethnic/minority identities, health and medical industry reform,
participatory political action models, cultural responses to people with
disabilities, artistic representations of disability, social and
individual implications of disability technologies, theories of bodily and
cognitive norms/deviancy, disability and ethics, disability and the
global economy, etc.
Submissions deadline is December 10, 1997. To have your proposal
considered, please send an abstract (250-500 words for an individual,
500-1000 words for a group) that includes the presenter's name,
affiliation, and contact information. If a panel or group event is
proposed, the above mentioned information must be included for each
presenter/participant, and the session itself should be given its own
title, along with a written overview of the event's larger
goals/objectives. The text of the abstract should include: 1) the title of
the presentation; 2) an explicit statement of the presentation's thesis,
findings, or significance; 3) a summary of the study supporting the
presentation's thesis and the contribution that your research will make;
and 4) the structure and form of your presentation (15 minute paper, 1.5
hour organized session, panel, workshop, or roundtable, or a
performance/showing of any length), and an explicit description of how
you will make the event universally accessible to all people with
disabilities.*
Please send your proposal to Professor David Mitchell, English Department,
Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI 49855; phone: 906-227-2704;
e-mail dmitchel@nmu.edu.
*SDS meetings are intended to be accessible for all participating members.
Each proposal must include a statement as to the means by which the
presentation(s) will be made available (ie. hard copies of all papers
available for distribution in large print [17 point font or larger] and
regular print, audio or video information must be presented in both oral
and visual formats, etc.). Sign language interpretation will be provided
by SDS.
Society for Disability Studies
http://www.wipd.com/sds
Dick Banks Adaptive Technologist - Consultant
EASI Electronic Resource Manager - Universal Access Consultant
EASI Equal Access to Software and Information
Universal Access Online Workshop (Self Paced) - Adaptive Computing Online
Workshop
http://www.rit.edu/~easi/workshops.html
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