[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Disability Studies (6/15/06; MAPACA, 10/26/06-10/28/06)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CFP for Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association, October
26-28, 2006, Baltimore, MD (Wyndham Inner Harbor Hotel) – Disability
Studies

We invite submissions for several sessions on Disability Studies.
Individual papers and complete panels of three or four presenters are
welcomed.

Disability Studies is a recent and growing discipline that draws on work
done in fields as diverse as history, health sciences, English,
anthropology, women's studies, and education. Papers interested in
exploring the lived experience of disability, fictional representations
of disability, or disability studies itself are all equally welcome.

Following are some possible questions to consider:

What gives a human life value?
How does a culture's attitudes about disability reveal its most basic
assumptions and ideologies?
How does the lived experience of disability vary according to class,
gender, race, sexuality, or culture?
How have our definitions of disability changed over time?
How does the media (mis?)represent people with disabilities? And what is
often left out when we talk/teach disability studies?

Send a 150-word abstract (including AV needs -- but only vcr-dvd/monitor
and carousel projector/screens) and a brief cv (as a Word Attachment),
via email (include the title of your paper/presentation and your
academic (if any) affiliation in the body of the email) before June 15,
2006 to:
A. Smith
feministwriter at hotmail.com



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