[Bilimsel Haber] UPDATE: Disabilities and Visibilities

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

UPDATE:
"Here We Are! Disabilities and Visibilities through the ages"
Mexico City, June 2006

Call for Papers:

Here We Are! Disabilities and Visibilities through the ages

a special thematic session at:

Testimonial Texts, Stories, Lives and Memories

Universidad Pedagógica Nacional (UPN),
Mexico City, 1 – 5 June 2006

Deadline: Wednesday, 1. March 2006
(Note: The submission deadline for abstracts has been extended)

This is an open invitation for papers for a subconference entirely 
dedicated to
cultural responses to disabilities across a wide range of perspectives 
during
the major conference "Testimonial Texts, Stories, Lives and Memories" to 
be held
at the National University of Pedagogy (UPN - Universidad Pedagógica 
Nacional)
in Mexico City between June 1st and June 5th, 2006. The session which 
has been
proposed by professor Sandra Oliver at the UPN, aims at bringing 
together people
working in all relevant disciplines, activists, professionals, academics and
promoting innovative multidisciplinary and multicultural exchange and 
dialogue.

The conference will focus on a number of core themes: Papers are welcomed on
virtually all topics and themes, independently of time, period and space, as
well as interdisciplinary perspectives. Also papers of comparative 
phenomena are
welcome.



Among the themes of interest are the following:

Disabilities and Cultural Texts: Power and Representation. 
Representations of
Disabilities in art, movies, music, poetry, religion and literature. How are
testimonial narratives mediated and represented?

Silences and taboos in discourses on disabilities.

Aesthetic responses to disabilities. Rituals, customs, and fetishism.

Cultural practices and disabilities

Disabilities and the collective and individual identities: Race, Class, 
Gender
etc

Disabilities and Politics, Lobbying and Activism: Power, Representation and
Activism. Constructions and reconstructions of disabilities in political and
faith and ideology based discourse, legal issues and policy making 
throughout
the world. Who has the authority to speak and who is silenced?

Disabilities and theory: Cultural Studies, Queer Studies, Religious Studies,
History, Anthropology, Sociology, Literary Studies and all related 
disciplines.
How do we theorize and analyze experiences and the meaning of a disability?

The 'significance' of disabilities for individuals and communities; the 
cultural
factors influencing our perceptions of disabilities

Disabilities and psychosocial affects and effects. Cultures of silence.

Indigenous knowledge and responses to disabilities

Stories and Histories about disabilites

Disabilities and Oral History



Interdisciplinary perspectives are especially welcomed since all these 
topics in
themselves stretch across several disciplines: history, linguistics, 
psychology,
political sciences, pedagogy, ethnology, anthropology, sociology...

500 word abstracts should be submitted by e-mail to the organising 
comitee in
English, Castillian, German or French by 1. March 2006. The conference 
languages
will be English and Castillian.

Address: info@enkidumagazine.com

Interpretations of the conference theme ranging from the predictable to the
surprising are encouraged.

Papers should be of approximately 30 minutes duration (circa 8 - 10 pages).
Other forms of presentation, for instance workshops, panel debates and 
poster
sessions will be considered on request.

Graduate and postgraduate students are encouraged to attend and present 
papers.

Abstracts are to be submitted by 1. March 2006 to 
info@enkidumagazine.com, along
with the presenter’s name, address, telephone, email, and 
institutional
affiliation. All correspondence for this conference will be conducted 
via email.

For further information, please contact the organising comitee at:
liowlb@enkidumagazine.com


Conference Coordinator:
Dr. Lars Ivar Owesen-Lein Borge
Email: liowlb@enkidumagazine.com
Enkidu Magazine, Mexico City

Keynote Speaker Coordinator:
Prof. Fransisco Villalpando
Email: fcovilla68@hotmail.com
Universidad Pedagógica Nacional (UPN), Mexico City

Logistics:
Lic. Ángel Pineda Blancarte
info@enkidumagazine.com
Enkidu Magazine, Mexico City
Archivo Historico de Santamaria Papantla

Centro Cultural Enkidu
http://www.enkidumagazine.com

Postal Address:
Campesinos # 252 col. Progreso del Sur,
c.p. 09810 Iztapalapa México .d.f.
Mexico

Email: info@enkidumagazine.com

Visit the website at 
http://www.enkidumagazine.com/eventos/texts/intro_en.htm