³Theorizing Breast Cancer: Narrative, Politics, Memory²
We invite proposals for a special issue of Tulsa Studies in Women¹s
Literature that will focus on feminist theories of embodiment in breast
cancer narratives, with particular emphasis on transnational, queer,
environmental, genetic, biomedical/bioethical, and activist discourses. We
seek traditional scholarly or mixed-genre essays that analyze literary and
cultural representations of breast cancer in fiction, autobiography/memoir,
and/or visual culture and that explore topics such as the following:
1) Women¹s representations of medicalization, e.g. breast cancer
diagnosis, lumpectomy, mastectomy, radiation, chemotherapy, other
pharmaceutical or technological interventions, and decline or recovery;
2) The shifting politics of prosthesis, reconstruction, breast cancer
culture, and/or survivor discourses;
3) Historiographies of breast cancer, including pre-history of cancer
narrative as a defined topic;
4) Theories of breast cancer in relation to social determinants of
literary and cultural representations;
5) Current and historicized breast cancer narratives as sites of public
memory and individual/communal mourning;
6) The politics of location and/or theories of intersectionality in
breast cancer narratives as regards racial-ethnic, class, queer, and/or
disabled identities;
7) The aesthetic and representational strategies of writers,
photographers, and artists who document breast cancer¹s physical and/or
psychological terrain;
8) Possible links among breast cancer, environmental carcinogens, and
corporate cultures;
9) The ethics and efficacy of genetic testing, prophylactic mastectomy,
and previvor discourses;
10) Breast cancer narratives in popular culture, including film narrative,
television, blogs, and websites.
All essays should be informed by recent feminist scholarship on illness,
medicalization, and cancer in medical humanities or narrative medicine and
in literary, gender, cultural, visual, disability, and/or trauma studies. In
the U.S. alone more than 178,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer each
year, and 40,000 die of this disease. Worldwide breast cancer rates are
rising, and current projections suggest that within ten years, 70% of all
breast cancer will affect women from the Global South. This issue of TSWL
will examine a wide range of visual and verbal narratives that explore the
contours of illness, survival, and memorialization.
Essays should be 6000-9000 words (excluding footnotes and bibliography),
should conform to the 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, and
should be submitted in Microsoft Word. Please send detailed abstracts by
August 1, 2012 to both of us and to TSWL editor Laura Stevens
(laura-stevens@utulsa.edu). Final essays, subsequent to acceptance of
abstracts, will be due by January 4, 2013.
Mary K. DeShazer (deshazer@wfu.edu) Anita Helle
(ahelle@oregonstate.edu)
Professor of English and Professor of
English; Transitional Director,
Women¹s and Gender Studies School of Writing,
Literature, and Film
Wake Forest University Oregon State
University
Monday, February 20, 2012
Friday, February 17, 2012
A young man's poem
Dear Colleagues,
Here is a YouTube of a young man (Ryanaustin Dennis) at Miami University reciting one of his poems. He addresses disability where most overlook it. (I apologize for the wiggling at the opening of the video, it took me a minute to steady the camera).
Do some of you have suggestions as to where Ryanaustin might submit this poem for publication? He is a wonderfully talented undergraduate and I would like to support his work. Take a look at:
You tube:
Killing Rage: A Poem for Martin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ArLTiv1XPI
Thanks for suggestions. Kathy
--
Dr. Kathy McMahon-Klosterman
Eminent Faculty Scholar for Community Engagement & Service, Emerita
Associate Professor: Educational Psychology
Affiliate: Women’s Studies; Disability Studies; Interdisciplinary Studies
Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056
mcmahok@muohio.edu 513 523-1297
If you think you’re too small to make a difference,
You’ve never been in bed with a mosquito.
Here is a YouTube of a young man (Ryanaustin Dennis) at Miami University reciting one of his poems. He addresses disability where most overlook it. (I apologize for the wiggling at the opening of the video, it took me a minute to steady the camera).
Do some of you have suggestions as to where Ryanaustin might submit this poem for publication? He is a wonderfully talented undergraduate and I would like to support his work. Take a look at:
You tube:
Killing Rage: A Poem for Martin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ArLTiv1XPI
Thanks for suggestions. Kathy
--
Dr. Kathy McMahon-Klosterman
Eminent Faculty Scholar for Community Engagement & Service, Emerita
Associate Professor: Educational Psychology
Affiliate: Women’s Studies; Disability Studies; Interdisciplinary Studies
Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056
mcmahok@muohio.edu 513 523-1297
If you think you’re too small to make a difference,
You’ve never been in bed with a mosquito.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Call for Papers for a Themed Issue of Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care: Disabled People, Ethnicity and Inequalities
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/
Call for Papers for a Themed Issue of Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care: Disabled People, Ethnicity and Inequalities
We invite you to submit papers to a themed edition of the journal Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care.
Call for papers
Themed issue: Disabled people, ethnicity and inequalities
Guest editor: Stephen Hodgkins
This themed issue will take a unique user-led focus covering user perspectives and user-led organizations that are involved in social change activities and relating to multiple inequality issues of primarily ethnicity and disability.
Papers will cover current outsider views, including the following:
• the experience of multiple inequalities
• theoretical perspectives
• personal ‘leadership’ histories
• involvement in user-led, disabled persons services.
We are also open to any other relevant ideas that you have.
Benefits of writing for this issue include
• on publication, dissemination of your paper to a wide audience of researchers, practitioners and service providers, allowing you to demonstrate the social impact of your work
• inclusion in a themed issue that will help to raise awareness of these issues
• the opportunity to share and promote your work
• help in raising your personal and organisational profiles
• published work can be helpful to reference in future work and can also help with supporting future fundraising and other applications.
Papers should be 3,000–4,000 words.
Deadline: end March 2012
Submissions should be made to the guest editor: Stephen Hodgkins at stephen.hodgkins@
About the journal
Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care promotes equality in health and social care. A key area of interest is the relationship between ethnicity and other forms of inequality – often now referred to as intersectionality.
The journal provides a unique practical focus on tackling inequalities, clear implications for practitioners, user perspectives and examples of best practice and ‘what works’. The journal is read by practitioners, managers, policy-makers, academics, universities and colleges, NHS and primary care trusts, local authorities, social workers, psychologists, nurses, voluntary sector workers, users of services, carers and students.
More information on the journal and full guidelines for contributing can be accessed at: www.emeraldinsight.com/eihsc.
Further information
For further information on this journal please contact the guest editor listed above or the journal publisher,
Jo Sharrocks, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Tel: +44 (0)1274 785141
jsharrocks@emeraldinsight.com
Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care journal is now published by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd as part of its Health and Social Care subject collection, following the acquisition by Emerald of Pier Professional.
Call for Papers for a Themed Issue of Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care: Disabled People, Ethnicity and Inequalities
We invite you to submit papers to a themed edition of the journal Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care.
Call for papers
Themed issue: Disabled people, ethnicity and inequalities
Guest editor: Stephen Hodgkins
This themed issue will take a unique user-led focus covering user perspectives and user-led organizations that are involved in social change activities and relating to multiple inequality issues of primarily ethnicity and disability.
Papers will cover current outsider views, including the following:
• the experience of multiple inequalities
• theoretical perspectives
• personal ‘leadership’ histories
• involvement in user-led, disabled persons services.
We are also open to any other relevant ideas that you have.
Benefits of writing for this issue include
• on publication, dissemination of your paper to a wide audience of researchers, practitioners and service providers, allowing you to demonstrate the social impact of your work
• inclusion in a themed issue that will help to raise awareness of these issues
• the opportunity to share and promote your work
• help in raising your personal and organisational profiles
• published work can be helpful to reference in future work and can also help with supporting future fundraising and other applications.
Papers should be 3,000–4,000 words.
Deadline: end March 2012
Submissions should be made to the guest editor: Stephen Hodgkins at stephen.hodgkins@
About the journal
Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care promotes equality in health and social care. A key area of interest is the relationship between ethnicity and other forms of inequality – often now referred to as intersectionality.
The journal provides a unique practical focus on tackling inequalities, clear implications for practitioners, user perspectives and examples of best practice and ‘what works’. The journal is read by practitioners, managers, policy-makers, academics, universities and colleges, NHS and primary care trusts, local authorities, social workers, psychologists, nurses, voluntary sector workers, users of services, carers and students.
More information on the journal and full guidelines for contributing can be accessed at: www.emeraldinsight.com/eihsc.
Further information
For further information on this journal please contact the guest editor listed above or the journal publisher,
Jo Sharrocks, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Tel: +44 (0)1274 785141
jsharrocks@emeraldinsight.com
Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care journal is now published by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd as part of its Health and Social Care subject collection, following the acquisition by Emerald of Pier Professional.
National Federation of the Blind Hazel tenBroek Grants for Research on Blindness, Disability Rights and Civil Rights
http://www.nfb.org/nfb/
National Federation of the Blind Hazel tenBroek Grants for Research on Blindness, Disability Rights and Civil Rights
The National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute announces the NFB Hazel tenBroek Research Grant program for 2012-13.
Though sighted, Hazel tenBroek (1911-2005) was a devoted member of the National Federation of the Blind. For many years, she was an unpaid coworker of her husband, NFB founding President Jacobus tenBroek, and after his death she served as Associate Editor of the NFB monthly magazine, the Braille Monitor. Near the end of her life she agreed to donate the Jacobus tenBroek papers to the Jernigan Institute. The tenBroek papers now constitute the centerpiece of the research resources of the Jacobus tenBroek Library.
Purpose: These awards will support projects that (1) require the resources of the Jacobus tenBroek Library and (2) are intended to lead to a product of educational or aesthetic value to the public and/or the academic community. Undergraduate students may apply, but only for work on a senior thesis or capstone project.
Awards: Up to five applicants will win awards of between $500 and $5000. Awards will be based on budgets submitted as part of the application (see below), but will not necessarily match the total proposed budget. In general, the awards will be proportional to the proposed length of residence in the tenBroek Library.
Period of residence: Winners of Hazel tenBroek Research grants are expected to spend at least five days in residence at the Jacobus tenBroek Library, any time between mid-July 2012 and mid-June 2013. The days of residence need not be consecutive. Awardees who come from a distance are invited to stay in Jernigan Institute sleeping rooms at no charge. Grant recipients are not required to stay at the Jernigan Institute, but we will not consider lodging costs in proposal budgets.
Presentation: At the conclusion of their stay, awardees will be expected to make a presentation of 20-30 minutes, followed by a question and answer period with Jernigan Institute staff members.
Acknowledgment and rights: All products of work done on these grants remain the intellectual property of the awardees, but must include an acknowledgment of the 2012-2013 NFB Hazel tenBroek Research Grant program. Should the editors regard the grant-funded work as appropriate for inclusion in the Braille Monitor, tenBroek Library staff will work with the awardee in preparing an article.
Eligibility: All are eligible to apply, regardless of citizenship or age.
Travel and visas: Grantees are responsible for their own travel arrangements and visa arrangements (if needed).
Preferences:
Disability status. All else being equal, preference will be shown, first, to blind applicants, and second, to other disabled applicants.
Topic of project. We are especially interested in projects related to the life and work of Jacobus tenBroek or the history of the National Federation of the Blind. However, we will consider well-conceived projects in other areas.
Resources:
Published books, periodicals, etc. The Jacobus tenBroek Library, established in 2004, is currently engaged in a large-scale acquisitions program (both retrospective and current). The scope of its published materials—largely in print, but also in talking book, Braille, and digital formats—extends to all facets (except the medical) of blindness and the lives of blind people. We encourage potential applicants to check THE BLIND CAT, our online public-access catalog (www.nfb.org/theblindcat), and let us know of books or other publications that are within our scope, that we do not yet own.
Archival and manuscript materials. The most significant single resource of the tenBroek Library is the Professional and Personal Papers of Jacobus tenBroek. Dr. tenBroek (1911-1968) was a towering figure in many areas. The NFB as he built it in the 1940s and 1950s adumbrated many of the features of today’s disability rights movement, most importantly by asserting that blind must speak for themselves as consumers and as a demographic minority that experiences discrimination. A graduate of the University of California School of Law (Boalt Hall), tenBroek earned additional graduate degrees in both law and political science. His scholarly interests centered around constitutional notions of “rights” and he is credited with helping to refine the idea of rights in the post-World War II era. In addition to disability rights, his writings have proved central to civil rights law and welfare rights law. His 1958 book, Prejudice, War, and the Constitution is regarded as the definitive c!
ritique of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow the federal government to relocate Japanese Americans during the World War II.
TenBroek served on the faculty of the University of California from 1942 until his death. As a university professor, he stood strongly in favor of academic freedom, opposing the loyalty oath during the 1950s, and supporting the student Free Speech Movement in 1964. Simultaneously with his social activism and scholarly work tenBroek was a member and, for a period, chairman of the California Social Welfare Board.
The Jacobus tenBroek papers—consisting largely of typed and printed documents, but with a significant portion in grade 3 Braille—is a major primary resource for research on any of his personal and professional interests. A grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission has allowed us to complete basic processing of both the tenBroek papers and the larger institutional archives of the National Federation of the Blind. We have recently made finding aids to these and several smaller collections available through our archival search tool, THE CANE TIP (www.nfb.org/thecanetip).
Museum collection. The tenBroek Library has an unprocessed collection of objects, including several exhibits on display in public areas of the Jernigan Institute. In storage are a number of mechanical and manual tools for writing in Braille, as well as electronic devices developed for use by the blind in the past half-century. The Jernigan Institute is also home to the International Braille and Technology Center (IBTC), which collects state-of-the-art electronic devices, and the Independence Market, which sells a selection of “low tech” aids and appliances for the blind, including canes, clocks, low-vision aids, and toys. The resources of the IBTC and the Independence Market are available for use by researchers.
Audiovisual collection. The tenBroek Library is also responsible for the NFB’s collection of sound and moving picture recordings dating back to the 1950s. The AV collection includes recordings of NFB events, oral history interviews, broadcast public service announcements, and other NFB archival material. At present there is no public access to the AV inventory, but we will gladly answer questions about this collection.
Photographs. We have more than forty thousand photographs in digital formats. They are entered with descriptive metadata in our photograph database, Photo Showcase. Photo Showcase is not available to outside researchers but, again, we will gladly help researchers locate photographs.
Applications: Applications will be accepted only as e-mail attachments sent to jtblibrary@nfb.org, preferably using Microsoft Word, Microsoft Works word processor, Open Office Writer, or Rich Text Format. All applications must have the following information clearly labeled and in this order:
I. Name and contact information, including relevant affiliations
II. Type of project (undergraduate thesis, graduate thesis, scholarly article or book, popular non-fiction, fiction or poetry, other artistic endeavor). If none of these, please specify what is intended.
III. Title of project
IV. Abstract of no more than five hundred words
V. Description of how the resources of the tenBroek Library will be utilized
VI. Budget. There is no budget form, and applicants should themselves choose the categories of expense they anticipate.
For further information, please contact the tenBroek Library (410-659-9314 x2225 or jtblibrary@nfb.org).
Deadline: All applications must be received by 8:00 AM, Eastern Time (GMT -05:00), Monday April 2, 2012. Decisions will be announced within a few weeks.
National Federation of the Blind Hazel tenBroek Grants for Research on Blindness, Disability Rights and Civil Rights
The National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute announces the NFB Hazel tenBroek Research Grant program for 2012-13.
Though sighted, Hazel tenBroek (1911-2005) was a devoted member of the National Federation of the Blind. For many years, she was an unpaid coworker of her husband, NFB founding President Jacobus tenBroek, and after his death she served as Associate Editor of the NFB monthly magazine, the Braille Monitor. Near the end of her life she agreed to donate the Jacobus tenBroek papers to the Jernigan Institute. The tenBroek papers now constitute the centerpiece of the research resources of the Jacobus tenBroek Library.
Purpose: These awards will support projects that (1) require the resources of the Jacobus tenBroek Library and (2) are intended to lead to a product of educational or aesthetic value to the public and/or the academic community. Undergraduate students may apply, but only for work on a senior thesis or capstone project.
Awards: Up to five applicants will win awards of between $500 and $5000. Awards will be based on budgets submitted as part of the application (see below), but will not necessarily match the total proposed budget. In general, the awards will be proportional to the proposed length of residence in the tenBroek Library.
Period of residence: Winners of Hazel tenBroek Research grants are expected to spend at least five days in residence at the Jacobus tenBroek Library, any time between mid-July 2012 and mid-June 2013. The days of residence need not be consecutive. Awardees who come from a distance are invited to stay in Jernigan Institute sleeping rooms at no charge. Grant recipients are not required to stay at the Jernigan Institute, but we will not consider lodging costs in proposal budgets.
Presentation: At the conclusion of their stay, awardees will be expected to make a presentation of 20-30 minutes, followed by a question and answer period with Jernigan Institute staff members.
Acknowledgment and rights: All products of work done on these grants remain the intellectual property of the awardees, but must include an acknowledgment of the 2012-2013 NFB Hazel tenBroek Research Grant program. Should the editors regard the grant-funded work as appropriate for inclusion in the Braille Monitor, tenBroek Library staff will work with the awardee in preparing an article.
Eligibility: All are eligible to apply, regardless of citizenship or age.
Travel and visas: Grantees are responsible for their own travel arrangements and visa arrangements (if needed).
Preferences:
Disability status. All else being equal, preference will be shown, first, to blind applicants, and second, to other disabled applicants.
Topic of project. We are especially interested in projects related to the life and work of Jacobus tenBroek or the history of the National Federation of the Blind. However, we will consider well-conceived projects in other areas.
Resources:
Published books, periodicals, etc. The Jacobus tenBroek Library, established in 2004, is currently engaged in a large-scale acquisitions program (both retrospective and current). The scope of its published materials—largely in print, but also in talking book, Braille, and digital formats—extends to all facets (except the medical) of blindness and the lives of blind people. We encourage potential applicants to check THE BLIND CAT, our online public-access catalog (www.nfb.org/theblindcat), and let us know of books or other publications that are within our scope, that we do not yet own.
Archival and manuscript materials. The most significant single resource of the tenBroek Library is the Professional and Personal Papers of Jacobus tenBroek. Dr. tenBroek (1911-1968) was a towering figure in many areas. The NFB as he built it in the 1940s and 1950s adumbrated many of the features of today’s disability rights movement, most importantly by asserting that blind must speak for themselves as consumers and as a demographic minority that experiences discrimination. A graduate of the University of California School of Law (Boalt Hall), tenBroek earned additional graduate degrees in both law and political science. His scholarly interests centered around constitutional notions of “rights” and he is credited with helping to refine the idea of rights in the post-World War II era. In addition to disability rights, his writings have proved central to civil rights law and welfare rights law. His 1958 book, Prejudice, War, and the Constitution is regarded as the definitive c!
ritique of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow the federal government to relocate Japanese Americans during the World War II.
TenBroek served on the faculty of the University of California from 1942 until his death. As a university professor, he stood strongly in favor of academic freedom, opposing the loyalty oath during the 1950s, and supporting the student Free Speech Movement in 1964. Simultaneously with his social activism and scholarly work tenBroek was a member and, for a period, chairman of the California Social Welfare Board.
The Jacobus tenBroek papers—consisting largely of typed and printed documents, but with a significant portion in grade 3 Braille—is a major primary resource for research on any of his personal and professional interests. A grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission has allowed us to complete basic processing of both the tenBroek papers and the larger institutional archives of the National Federation of the Blind. We have recently made finding aids to these and several smaller collections available through our archival search tool, THE CANE TIP (www.nfb.org/thecanetip).
Museum collection. The tenBroek Library has an unprocessed collection of objects, including several exhibits on display in public areas of the Jernigan Institute. In storage are a number of mechanical and manual tools for writing in Braille, as well as electronic devices developed for use by the blind in the past half-century. The Jernigan Institute is also home to the International Braille and Technology Center (IBTC), which collects state-of-the-art electronic devices, and the Independence Market, which sells a selection of “low tech” aids and appliances for the blind, including canes, clocks, low-vision aids, and toys. The resources of the IBTC and the Independence Market are available for use by researchers.
Audiovisual collection. The tenBroek Library is also responsible for the NFB’s collection of sound and moving picture recordings dating back to the 1950s. The AV collection includes recordings of NFB events, oral history interviews, broadcast public service announcements, and other NFB archival material. At present there is no public access to the AV inventory, but we will gladly answer questions about this collection.
Photographs. We have more than forty thousand photographs in digital formats. They are entered with descriptive metadata in our photograph database, Photo Showcase. Photo Showcase is not available to outside researchers but, again, we will gladly help researchers locate photographs.
Applications: Applications will be accepted only as e-mail attachments sent to jtblibrary@nfb.org, preferably using Microsoft Word, Microsoft Works word processor, Open Office Writer, or Rich Text Format. All applications must have the following information clearly labeled and in this order:
I. Name and contact information, including relevant affiliations
II. Type of project (undergraduate thesis, graduate thesis, scholarly article or book, popular non-fiction, fiction or poetry, other artistic endeavor). If none of these, please specify what is intended.
III. Title of project
IV. Abstract of no more than five hundred words
V. Description of how the resources of the tenBroek Library will be utilized
VI. Budget. There is no budget form, and applicants should themselves choose the categories of expense they anticipate.
For further information, please contact the tenBroek Library (410-659-9314 x2225 or jtblibrary@nfb.org).
Deadline: All applications must be received by 8:00 AM, Eastern Time (GMT -05:00), Monday April 2, 2012. Decisions will be announced within a few weeks.
CFP: ATHE 2012 Interactive Theatre and Theatre and Social Change Pre-Conference, Feb 27th
This group has kindly invited me to give the keynote lecture for the pre-conference, so disability performance will be pretty central to the event (in particular work developed out of a theatre training course for people with developmental disabilities in Melbourne, Australia; the approaches of Dandelion Dance Theatre in Oakland, CA; and the Olimpias' Journey to the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, a participatory performance). It would be great if more disability studies people could join us in Washington, D.C.!
Best, Petra
*Calling all Interactive Theatre Artists!*
* *
*ATHE 2012 Interactive Theatre and Theatre and Social Change Pre-Conference*
*Hyatt Regency Washington, DC on Capitol Hill*
*Interactive Performance and Social Change: Civic engagement and rehearsal
for action*
*July 31-August 2, 2012*
Do you do interactive theatre work and would like to lead a workshop? Do
you have an example of your interactive theatre work that you wish to share?
Does your work fit into the theme, ?Interactive Performance and Social
Change: Civic engagement and rehearsal for action?? Do you know someone
who fits the above description?
*WHAT:* *We are looking for a variety of artists, artists-scholars, and
practitioners who engage in a variety of interactive theatre work to
present workshops and short performances of Interactive Theatre work for
the joined Interactive Theatre and Theatre and Social Change Pre-conference
in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, August 1, 2012.* The attendees will be
fellow artists/scholars connected to the higher education community.
*Interactive Theatre (IT) work may involve script development, devising, IT
audience participating techniques, cultivating the skills of the
post-performance dialogue, facilitating challenging dialogue, applied
theatre techniques, pedagogy and efficacy of IT work, IT with youth, IT in
varying settings and demographics, etc.*
* *
The Pre-Conference is being offered by the Interactive Theatre
Sub-committee (under the Advocacy Committee) of the Association for Theatre
in Higher Education (ATHE) and Theatre and Social Change ATHE Focus group.
*FORMAT OF WORKSHOPS*: intended for 20-30 (approx.) participants to engage
in hands-on material they may be able to bring back to their community in
some manner. Workshops may include a performative element, but needs to
focus on an interactive workshop. Each 70-75 minute workshop should
include handouts, resources or reference list. REFLECTION: Each workshop
will be followed by a facilitated reflection activity for participants in
order to actively process the workshop. Selected Workshop Leaders will be
asked to work with the Facilitation Leaders to best conduct this reflection
process. Please note the theme of the Preconference:* Interactive
Performance and Social Change: Civic engagement and rehearsal for action.*
*FORMAT OF SHORT PERFORMANCE: *
Performances must fit into a one hour time frame, including a Question and
Answer period. This may include an example of a work in its entirety or an
excerpt from a longer piece as long as the chosen example is understandable
and the context of the work clearly explained. *Please do not use videos
of past performances*. Presentations should interactively engage 20-30
(approx) participants with a demonstration of IT work connected to the
pre-conference theme. There will be volunteers to assist your set up and
break down. Please note the theme of the Preconference:* Interactive
Performance and Social Change: Civic engagement and rehearsal for action.*
*Submission Details:*
1. Indicate whether you are submitting a WORKSHOP or PERFORMANCE
2. Short bio, 200 words or less.
3. List of all other participants? names, if any.
4. Resume, CV, or website.
5. Description of either your workshop OR performance example of your
work including a/an:
a) short explanation of how the proposed workshop reflects the
Pre-Conference theme
b) brief breakdown of how you plan to use the time
c) outline of your plan to engage with the participants interactively
d) brief description of take home materials (required for workshop)
e) list of any technical needs such as LCD projector, screen, open
space, CD player, etc.
6. Email submission to Cheryl Kaplan Zachariah at
CherylLK<CherylLKaplan@gmail.c
*aplan@gmail.com* and write ?IT SUBMISSION? in the subject line of your
email.
*Deadline for Submissions is Monday, February 27th by midnight.*
*Offers will be made by March 12, 2012.*
Unfortunately, we are unable to offer stipends at this time, but the
registration fee for the entire pre-conference (including the key-note and
on-site performance) will be waived for all presenters. Please feel free to
pass this along to any interested parties. Please direct any questions to
Cheryl Kaplan Zachariah at CherylLKaplan@gmail.com
--
Cheryl L. Kaplan Zachariah
Instructor, Writer, Director, Dramaturg, Theatre Arts Integration Specialist
CherylLKaplan@gmail.com
----- End forwarded message -----
--
Petra Kuppers
Associate Professor
English, Art and Design, Theatre, Women's Studies
Faculty Affiliate with the Center for World Performance Studies and Matthaei Botanical Gardens
University of Michigan
435 S. State Street, 3216 Angell Hall, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003
mobile: 734-239-2634
Artistic Director of The Olimpias, www.olimpias.org
New books!
Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape, on Olimpias practices (Palgrave, August 2011, http://www.palgrave.com/produc
Somatic Engagement, an edited collection of artists on the poetics, politics and publics of embodiment (Chain Links, October 2011, http://www.chainarts.org/somat
Best, Petra
*Calling all Interactive Theatre Artists!*
* *
*ATHE 2012 Interactive Theatre and Theatre and Social Change Pre-Conference*
*Hyatt Regency Washington, DC on Capitol Hill*
*Interactive Performance and Social Change: Civic engagement and rehearsal
for action*
*July 31-August 2, 2012*
Do you do interactive theatre work and would like to lead a workshop? Do
you have an example of your interactive theatre work that you wish to share?
Does your work fit into the theme, ?Interactive Performance and Social
Change: Civic engagement and rehearsal for action?? Do you know someone
who fits the above description?
*WHAT:* *We are looking for a variety of artists, artists-scholars, and
practitioners who engage in a variety of interactive theatre work to
present workshops and short performances of Interactive Theatre work for
the joined Interactive Theatre and Theatre and Social Change Pre-conference
in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, August 1, 2012.* The attendees will be
fellow artists/scholars connected to the higher education community.
*Interactive Theatre (IT) work may involve script development, devising, IT
audience participating techniques, cultivating the skills of the
post-performance dialogue, facilitating challenging dialogue, applied
theatre techniques, pedagogy and efficacy of IT work, IT with youth, IT in
varying settings and demographics, etc.*
* *
The Pre-Conference is being offered by the Interactive Theatre
Sub-committee (under the Advocacy Committee) of the Association for Theatre
in Higher Education (ATHE) and Theatre and Social Change ATHE Focus group.
*FORMAT OF WORKSHOPS*: intended for 20-30 (approx.) participants to engage
in hands-on material they may be able to bring back to their community in
some manner. Workshops may include a performative element, but needs to
focus on an interactive workshop. Each 70-75 minute workshop should
include handouts, resources or reference list. REFLECTION: Each workshop
will be followed by a facilitated reflection activity for participants in
order to actively process the workshop. Selected Workshop Leaders will be
asked to work with the Facilitation Leaders to best conduct this reflection
process. Please note the theme of the Preconference:* Interactive
Performance and Social Change: Civic engagement and rehearsal for action.*
*FORMAT OF SHORT PERFORMANCE: *
Performances must fit into a one hour time frame, including a Question and
Answer period. This may include an example of a work in its entirety or an
excerpt from a longer piece as long as the chosen example is understandable
and the context of the work clearly explained. *Please do not use videos
of past performances*. Presentations should interactively engage 20-30
(approx) participants with a demonstration of IT work connected to the
pre-conference theme. There will be volunteers to assist your set up and
break down. Please note the theme of the Preconference:* Interactive
Performance and Social Change: Civic engagement and rehearsal for action.*
*Submission Details:*
1. Indicate whether you are submitting a WORKSHOP or PERFORMANCE
2. Short bio, 200 words or less.
3. List of all other participants? names, if any.
4. Resume, CV, or website.
5. Description of either your workshop OR performance example of your
work including a/an:
a) short explanation of how the proposed workshop reflects the
Pre-Conference theme
b) brief breakdown of how you plan to use the time
c) outline of your plan to engage with the participants interactively
d) brief description of take home materials (required for workshop)
e) list of any technical needs such as LCD projector, screen, open
space, CD player, etc.
6. Email submission to Cheryl Kaplan Zachariah at
CherylLK<CherylLKaplan@gmail.c
*aplan@gmail.com* and write ?IT SUBMISSION? in the subject line of your
email.
*Deadline for Submissions is Monday, February 27th by midnight.*
*Offers will be made by March 12, 2012.*
Unfortunately, we are unable to offer stipends at this time, but the
registration fee for the entire pre-conference (including the key-note and
on-site performance) will be waived for all presenters. Please feel free to
pass this along to any interested parties. Please direct any questions to
Cheryl Kaplan Zachariah at CherylLKaplan@gmail.com
--
Cheryl L. Kaplan Zachariah
Instructor, Writer, Director, Dramaturg, Theatre Arts Integration Specialist
CherylLKaplan@gmail.com
----- End forwarded message -----
--
Petra Kuppers
Associate Professor
English, Art and Design, Theatre, Women's Studies
Faculty Affiliate with the Center for World Performance Studies and Matthaei Botanical Gardens
University of Michigan
435 S. State Street, 3216 Angell Hall, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003
mobile: 734-239-2634
Artistic Director of The Olimpias, www.olimpias.org
New books!
Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape, on Olimpias practices (Palgrave, August 2011, http://www.palgrave.com/produc
Somatic Engagement, an edited collection of artists on the poetics, politics and publics of embodiment (Chain Links, October 2011, http://www.chainarts.org/somat
Funding For Arts & Disability
Hello,
Does anyone have experience with foundations interested in funding Disability and the arts? I'm seeking support for a small reading theatre group based here in Long Island, New York. Any suggestions would be most welcome.
Thanks!
Best,
Therese
Therese E. Brzezinski, M.A.
Director, Advocacy & Community Policy
L.I. Center for Independent Living, Inc. (LICIL)
3601 Hempstead Turnpike -- Suite 500
Levittown, NY 11756
516-796-0144 (Voice)
516-796-0529 (FAX)
516-796-0135 (TTY)
ThereseA@licil.com
www.licil.net
Does anyone have experience with foundations interested in funding Disability and the arts? I'm seeking support for a small reading theatre group based here in Long Island, New York. Any suggestions would be most welcome.
Thanks!
Best,
Therese
Therese E. Brzezinski, M.A.
Director, Advocacy & Community Policy
L.I. Center for Independent Living, Inc. (LICIL)
3601 Hempstead Turnpike -- Suite 500
Levittown, NY 11756
516-796-0144 (Voice)
516-796-0529 (FAX)
516-796-0135 (TTY)
ThereseA@licil.com
www.licil.net
Call for Papers (CFP) for AAA meetings in San Francisco: Disability and Bioethical Curriculum: Please Mind the Gaps
Call for Papers (CFP) for AAA meetings in San Francisco: Disability and Bioethical Curriculum: Please Mind the Gaps
Devva Kasnitz, Lakshmi Fjord, and Juliette de Wolfe co-organizers:
<mailto:devva@earthlink.net>de
Please respond soon, as we wish to ask for invited status of the CAE (Council on Anthropology and Education) due MARCH 15TH
To address the substantive gaps about disability-related issues in most anthropology courses, the AAA ethics committee has awarded us a small ethics grant on behalf of the Disability Research Interest Group to improve these lacunae. Co-authors of the proposal are Karen Davis, Joe Kaufert, and Pamela Block.
For this panel, we seek presenters who already include disability studies as a course focus or who intend to do so and would enjoy the opportunity to present on any topical area of disability issues. Below please find a list of possible topics, which are just a starting point. We hope to create a double panel that will have ample time for audience participation and lively discussion.
The module we will present to the AAA ethics committee will make use of existing legacy and new primary sources, theoretical frameworks, films as texts, and ethnographies.
Accessibility: Using multi-modal methods for classroom inclusion, we hope presenters and our final curricula will model how course content and texts can be made more accessible to diverse learners and the possibilities for increased creativity that disability orientated accessibility provides to all students.
Possible topics:
Disability Theory
*critical disability theory
*social theory of disability
Cross-cultural ethnographic comparisons
Critical disability theory and social theories of disability
Ethnographies
Disability History
Economics:
*historic and ongoing cost/benefit arguments for eugenics, Holocaust;
*Boas on need for diverse embodiments for "adaptive" societies
*employment
` *social security disability insurance, veterans, homeless, disincentives:
royalties and honoraria, marriage, etc.
*accommodations
*in-home care vs. institutionalization
Political/Law
*human rights, social justice, civil rights movements and disability
*identity politics and coalition building
*hierarchies of disability
*community organizing
*UN treaty
*legislation: ADA, other nations' laws, local vs. national, etc.
*critique of Euro-American centered disability identity-formation
*resistance and affirmation approaches
*Disability and prison populations: identified and non-identified
Socio-Environmental
*Inclusive/Universal Design
*Access and accommodations in school, work, home, medicine, recreation,
sexual activities, etc.
Education
*policies: government mandates
*cross-cultural comparisons across national borders
*mainstreaming vs. "special needs" classrooms vs. disability-grouped classroom
*IEPs: politics of, economics of, legal issues with
*linguistic accommodations; bilingualism in signed/spoken languages
*assistive personnel and assistive technologies
*multiple disabilities
*immigrant children with disabilities
Accessing necessary educational supports for children with disabilities
Navigating power relations in special education evaluations, determinations, and programming
Technologies
*assistive technologies
*assistive personnel (captioners, interpreters, revoicers, facilitated communicators)
*consumer-centered vs. developer-centered design
*cultural capital of assistive devices invented for disabled people now allow mass
connectivity: typewriter keyboard, voice recognition, videophone, etc.
technologies as tools for advocacy (self, family, etc.), awareness, and fundraising
Rehabilitation
*history of professionalization
*capitalizing on disability
*disability advocates push back
Cure or rehabilitation centered models and coping centered models
Disability creativity
*Theater/performance, dance, poetry, studio arts, photography
*Blind at the museum
*Theater, film, dance accommodations (audio description, captioning, etc)
Medicine
*pathologization and medicalizing of disability
*access and accommodation issues in clinical medicine
*iconic bioethical cases and disability
*Selective abortion (who decides what "counts" as desired fetus?)
*Selective physician-assisted suicide: who decides what counts as "quality of
life" and support care?
*End of life care and life support technologies, inequalities in access
Accessing healthcare supports and services
Disability and the lifespan
*aging and age-onset impairments
*temporary or life-long impairments
caregiving over the life span
financial planning over the lifespan
"Disability Awareness" and simulations and ethics
Disability and parenting
Parents making medical decisions for disabled children (cochlear implants, special diets, unauthorized treatments, etc.)
Impact on parent identity when caring for a child with a disability
Parental experiences of courtesy stigma
Disability and migration
Contact Information:
Devva Kasnitz, PhD
President, Society for Disability Studies, http://www.disstudies.org/
Devvaco Consulting/New Focus Partnerships
Coordinator, Disability Research Interest Group, Society for Medical Anthropology
Fellow, Society for Applied Anthropology
Committee on Minority Issues in Anthropology, American Anthropological Association
Listserv Manager, NAPA-OT Interest Group
EMAIL: <devva@earthlink.net>
Mailing Address:
1614 D St
Eureka, CA 95501
Voice: 707-443-1973
Cell Phone: 510-206-5767
Devva Kasnitz, Lakshmi Fjord, and Juliette de Wolfe co-organizers:
<mailto:devva@earthlink.net>de
Please respond soon, as we wish to ask for invited status of the CAE (Council on Anthropology and Education) due MARCH 15TH
To address the substantive gaps about disability-related issues in most anthropology courses, the AAA ethics committee has awarded us a small ethics grant on behalf of the Disability Research Interest Group to improve these lacunae. Co-authors of the proposal are Karen Davis, Joe Kaufert, and Pamela Block.
For this panel, we seek presenters who already include disability studies as a course focus or who intend to do so and would enjoy the opportunity to present on any topical area of disability issues. Below please find a list of possible topics, which are just a starting point. We hope to create a double panel that will have ample time for audience participation and lively discussion.
The module we will present to the AAA ethics committee will make use of existing legacy and new primary sources, theoretical frameworks, films as texts, and ethnographies.
Accessibility: Using multi-modal methods for classroom inclusion, we hope presenters and our final curricula will model how course content and texts can be made more accessible to diverse learners and the possibilities for increased creativity that disability orientated accessibility provides to all students.
Possible topics:
Disability Theory
*critical disability theory
*social theory of disability
Cross-cultural ethnographic comparisons
Critical disability theory and social theories of disability
Ethnographies
Disability History
Economics:
*historic and ongoing cost/benefit arguments for eugenics, Holocaust;
*Boas on need for diverse embodiments for "adaptive" societies
*employment
` *social security disability insurance, veterans, homeless, disincentives:
royalties and honoraria, marriage, etc.
*accommodations
*in-home care vs. institutionalization
Political/Law
*human rights, social justice, civil rights movements and disability
*identity politics and coalition building
*hierarchies of disability
*community organizing
*UN treaty
*legislation: ADA, other nations' laws, local vs. national, etc.
*critique of Euro-American centered disability identity-formation
*resistance and affirmation approaches
*Disability and prison populations: identified and non-identified
Socio-Environmental
*Inclusive/Universal Design
*Access and accommodations in school, work, home, medicine, recreation,
sexual activities, etc.
Education
*policies: government mandates
*cross-cultural comparisons across national borders
*mainstreaming vs. "special needs" classrooms vs. disability-grouped classroom
*IEPs: politics of, economics of, legal issues with
*linguistic accommodations; bilingualism in signed/spoken languages
*assistive personnel and assistive technologies
*multiple disabilities
*immigrant children with disabilities
Accessing necessary educational supports for children with disabilities
Navigating power relations in special education evaluations, determinations, and programming
Technologies
*assistive technologies
*assistive personnel (captioners, interpreters, revoicers, facilitated communicators)
*consumer-centered vs. developer-centered design
*cultural capital of assistive devices invented for disabled people now allow mass
connectivity: typewriter keyboard, voice recognition, videophone, etc.
technologies as tools for advocacy (self, family, etc.), awareness, and fundraising
Rehabilitation
*history of professionalization
*capitalizing on disability
*disability advocates push back
Cure or rehabilitation centered models and coping centered models
Disability creativity
*Theater/performance, dance, poetry, studio arts, photography
*Blind at the museum
*Theater, film, dance accommodations (audio description, captioning, etc)
Medicine
*pathologization and medicalizing of disability
*access and accommodation issues in clinical medicine
*iconic bioethical cases and disability
*Selective abortion (who decides what "counts" as desired fetus?)
*Selective physician-assisted suicide: who decides what counts as "quality of
life" and support care?
*End of life care and life support technologies, inequalities in access
Accessing healthcare supports and services
Disability and the lifespan
*aging and age-onset impairments
*temporary or life-long impairments
caregiving over the life span
financial planning over the lifespan
"Disability Awareness" and simulations and ethics
Disability and parenting
Parents making medical decisions for disabled children (cochlear implants, special diets, unauthorized treatments, etc.)
Impact on parent identity when caring for a child with a disability
Parental experiences of courtesy stigma
Disability and migration
Contact Information:
Devva Kasnitz, PhD
President, Society for Disability Studies, http://www.disstudies.org/
Devvaco Consulting/New Focus Partnerships
Coordinator, Disability Research Interest Group, Society for Medical Anthropology
Fellow, Society for Applied Anthropology
Committee on Minority Issues in Anthropology, American Anthropological Association
Listserv Manager, NAPA-OT Interest Group
EMAIL: <devva@earthlink.net>
Mailing Address:
1614 D St
Eureka, CA 95501
Voice: 707-443-1973
Cell Phone: 510-206-5767
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)