Society for Disability Studies, Call for Papers
Call for Papers
Society for Disability Studies
15th Annual Meeting
June 5 - 9, 2002
Oakland Marriott City Center
1001 Broadway, Oakland CA 94607
"Disability, Difference, and Tolerance -- Crossing Boundaries and Taking Risks"
The Society for Disability Studies (SDS) is an international non-profit organization that promotes the exploration of disability through research, artistic production, and teaching. Disability studies encourages perspectives that place disability in social, cultural, and political contexts. Through our work we seek to augment understanding of disability in all cultures and historical periods, to promote greater awareness of the experiences of disabled people, and to contribute to social change.
2002 Theme
This year's theme, "Disability, Difference, and Tolerance -- Crossing Boundaries and Taking Risks," seeks to examine emerging international issues in disability studies in today's political, economic, and cultural context. The conference will place special emphasis on identifying and crossing oppressive physical, political, ideological, communication, and attitudinal boundaries. We want specifically to sponsor cross-disability, cross-disciplinary, and cross-cultural discussion that promotes peace and tolerance. We want to examine risks inherent in inclusive and exclusive policies. We want to engage each other in conversation that seeks to balance concepts of security and risk, of self-determination and safety. The Conference will be organized to encourage dialogue among academic disability studies, activists, policy makers, practitioners, and the disability community as we try to situate disability studies in today's global crisis of shifting boundaries.
Meeting Plan
This year's meeting will start at 5:00 pm Wednesday evening, June 5th and will have no more than three volunteered concurrent sessions, 27 in all, in addition to two non-competing plenaries a day, six in total. In addition, we have reserved time on Sunday for two periods of three concurrent "Open Space" meetings. We have borrowed "Open Space" from the National Council on Independent Living. "Open Space" can be used for pre-planned or spontaneous organizational meetings, or to hold pre-planned or spontaneous topical roundtable discussions.
Program Committee Chair: Devva Kasnitz, Devva@earthlink.net
Program Committee Members: Elaine Makas, Anne Finger, Russell Shuttleworth, Marcie Goldstein, Susan Schweik
Deadline for submissions is January 1, 2002.
This announcement available in alternative formats from Carol Gill (cg16@uic.edu) at:
SDS,
c/o Department of Disability and Human Development,
University of Illinois at Chicago (M/C 626),
1640 W. Roosevelt Road,
Chicago, IL 60608-6904
Voice/TTY: 312-996-4664,
Fax: 312-996-7743,
Web page: http://www.uic.edu/orgs/sds.
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