[Discussion] CFP: Disability Studies Panels (6/30/04; MAPACA, 11/5/04-11/7/04)

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Disability Studies Panels for the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture
Association Conference to be held in Buffalo, New York from November
5-7, 2004.

I would like to invite submissions from both academics and non-academics
working on issues relevant to disability studies in any academic
discipline or other field of endeavour.  Small, supportive conference
atmosphere has, in the past, drawn participants from the US, Canada,
Italy, and one proxy participant from India.  The number and kind of
panels developed is shaped by the nature of the submissions received.

In the past, panels have explored disability studies itself, different
historical and cultural views of disability, contemporary government and
social support (or lack thereof) for persons with disabilities,
disability activism (from legal action to alternative media), the
educational system and persons with disabilities, and representations of
disability in popular culture, particularly film, TV, autobiography, and
literature.  I am open to further explorations of these topics, or other
areas of inquiry entirely.

Papers should be twenty minutes in length (about ten pages
double-spaced).  Please submit your name, institutional affiliation (if
any), the title of your paper, any a.v. requests, and a brief abstract
of your talk by June 30th.  Please email me if you have any questions
about attending this year's conference.
Holly Crumpton
Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario Canada
holly.crumpton@sympatico.ca


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