The Cultural Disability Studies Research Network is an interdisciplinary forum aimed at promoting disability perspectives across the UK university curriculum. It has held several conferences which either specialised in popular media or included popular fiction on the programme. The are interested in promoting and developing research in this field and sharing pedagogic strategies for the inclusion of cultural disability studies in higher education.
Special Issue: Popular Narrative Media Autism, Narrative and Textuality
MeCCSA Disability Studies Network: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/disability-studies-network/
New Publication: Reading Little Britain
Conference Cfp: Disability and the Victorians: Confronting Legacies Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies 30th July-1st August 2012 Leeds Trinity University College
Conference cfp: Transformative Difference: Disability, Culture and the Academy, Centre for Culture and Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University www.ccds.hope.ac.uk
Wednesday 7th and Thursday 8th September 2011
It is now widely recognised that a critical engagement with disability has the power to transform how we research and teach in a range of disciplinary areas – from education to medicine to the humanities and beyond. At the same time, conceptions of disability (and ability) are constantly changing, with shifting attitudes, new models, and the work of activists and educators to create a more equal society. This multidisciplinary conference seeks to explore how disability may function as a “transformative difference” in the academy, as well as how changing attitudes towards disability might have an impact on a range of subject areas. In particular, the conference will explore the following issues:
- How might an engagement with the difference of disability challenge, enrich, or transform work in particular disciplines?
- How do changing attitudes towards and perceptions of disability affect research, teaching, and scholarship in different fields?
- How does the inclusion of a Disability Studies perspective transform disciplines which have not traditionally embraced this standpoint?
- What are the challenges of, or barriers to, engaging with disability (and Disability Studies) in disciplines that have not traditionally done so?
We welcome submissions for research strands or panels, group or individual papers and presentations in alternative formats. Papers from postgraduate students are especially welcome.
Suitable topics may include, but are not limited to:
Disability and education (including teacher education, early years, further/higher education, and teaching and learning in Disability Studies)
Disability and the humanities
Disability in the sciences and social sciences
Disability studies, medicine and health sciences
Abstracts (max 250 words) with a brief biography (max 150 words) are invited for submission by April 4th 2011.
Enquiries to Irene Rose at Hope University : rosei@hope.ac.uk
