Call for Papers: Narratives of Disease, Disability, and Trauma: An Interdisciplinary Conference
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
9 - 11 May 2002
In September 1999, an interdisciplinary team of researchers (from
Nursing, Geography, English, Anthropology, Women's Studies,
French,
Medicine, and Education) at the University of British Columbia
embarked on a three-year project on narratives of disease,
disability,
and trauma, funded by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced
Studies.
We now welcome submissions for an international conference that
will
explore these narratives (which may be written, oral, performative, or
visual) within and across disciplines. We are particularly interested
in academic- and community-based research projects that are
theoretically informed and contribute to interdisciplinary dialogue.
This conference will explore, but is not limited to, the following
issues in narratives of disease, disability, and trauma:
- their therapeutic, aesthetic, and didactic value
- embodiment
- gender, age, race, ethnicity, class, etc. in these narratives
- institutional relations and/or power structures (e.g., researcher-researched, patient-caregiver, state-citizen)
- ethical questions and dilemmas
- the roles of policy development and the education of health-care professionals
- historical, sociological, philosophical, literary, and other approaches to these narratives
The research team expects to edit a volume of essays based on
this
conference.
Accessibility services such as captioning, hearing assistance, etc.
will be available at the conference if required.
Proposals:
Please e-mail your proposal (300-400 words), outlining the scope and
goals of your 20-minute presentation, and a short biographical note to
Gabriele Helms or Marsha Henry: wallnarr@interchange.ubc.ca
Deadline for proposals:
June 15, 2001
For information about the conference and the research project,
please visit our website (www.wallnarratives.pwias.ubc.ca),
write to us (wallnarr@interchange.ubc.ca),
or call/fax us at (604) 822-4033.
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