Hi all,
I'm hoping to begin ASL coursework this summer, and was wondering if anyone
could recommend opportunities in the Providence/Boston area. For logistical
reasons, ideally this would be coursework at a degree-granting institution,
but I'm certainly open.
Thanks so much!
Best,
Patrick
--
Patrick McKelvey
PhD Student
Department of Theatre and Performance Studies
Brown University
email: patrick_mckelvey@brown.edu
cell: (850) 217-6617
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Centre for Culture & Disability Studies: Brief Note
Friends and Colleagues,
I am writing on this occasion in my capacity as Director of the Centre for
Culture & Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University. I want to bring a
couple of things to your attention.
1. The Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies ALWAYS welcomes
submissions for its general issues. I stress this in response to a number
of enquiries about the deadlines for these issues – in brief, there are no
such deadlines, for the call is open.
2. For those of you who use Facebook and/or Twitter, please consider
joining us in the International Network of Literary & Cultural Disability
Scholars (the links are below).
Many thanks for your time and support.
All good things,
David
Dr. David Bolt
Director, Centre for Culture & Disability Studies
ccds.hope.ac.uk
Editor, Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies
http://liverpool.metapress.
Lecturer and Recognised Researcher, Education
http://www.hope.ac.uk/boltd
Founder, International Network of Literary & Cultural Disability Scholars
http://www.facebook.com/pages/
Cultural-Disability-Scholars/
http://twitter.com/#!/INLCDS
Email: boltd@hope.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 291 3346
Office: EDEN 128
Postal address: Graduate School, Faculty of Education, Liverpool Hope
University, Liverpool, L16 9JD.
I am writing on this occasion in my capacity as Director of the Centre for
Culture & Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University. I want to bring a
couple of things to your attention.
1. The Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies ALWAYS welcomes
submissions for its general issues. I stress this in response to a number
of enquiries about the deadlines for these issues – in brief, there are no
such deadlines, for the call is open.
2. For those of you who use Facebook and/or Twitter, please consider
joining us in the International Network of Literary & Cultural Disability
Scholars (the links are below).
Many thanks for your time and support.
All good things,
David
Dr. David Bolt
Director, Centre for Culture & Disability Studies
ccds.hope.ac.uk
Editor, Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies
http://liverpool.metapress.
Lecturer and Recognised Researcher, Education
http://www.hope.ac.uk/boltd
Founder, International Network of Literary & Cultural Disability Scholars
http://www.facebook.com/pages/
Cultural-Disability-Scholars/
http://twitter.com/#!/INLCDS
Email: boltd@hope.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 291 3346
Office: EDEN 128
Postal address: Graduate School, Faculty of Education, Liverpool Hope
University, Liverpool, L16 9JD.
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Event: Denver area, Lennard Davis on March 5 at Anschutz Medical Campus (AMC)
For those in the Denver area, you're welcome to attend a talk by Lennard Davis:
“Depression and Its Cure: How Did Sadness Become a Disability?”
Psychological disorders like depression have a complex social and historical etiology. Given that complexity, can we easily say that depression is a disease and therefore a disability, or must we question the very nature of assumptions concering both illness and impairment?
Monday, March 5, 2012
12-1p
Anschutz Medical Campus (AMC)
Education 2 North
http://www.ucdenver.edu/about/
This is part of a great series coordinated by Dr. Tess Jones, who directs the Arts and Humanities in Healthcare Program at AMC. Our team of disability studies folks from UC Denver, UC Colorado Springs, and CU Boulder will also be meeting with Lennard Davis to talk about developing Disability Studies opportunities at our universities.
Hope to see you there!
Amy Vidali, PhD
Assistant Professor of English
Director of Composition
Book/Media Co-Editor, DSQ
University of Colorado Denver
amy.vidali@ucdenver.edu
“Depression and Its Cure: How Did Sadness Become a Disability?”
Psychological disorders like depression have a complex social and historical etiology. Given that complexity, can we easily say that depression is a disease and therefore a disability, or must we question the very nature of assumptions concering both illness and impairment?
Monday, March 5, 2012
12-1p
Anschutz Medical Campus (AMC)
Education 2 North
http://www.ucdenver.edu/about/
This is part of a great series coordinated by Dr. Tess Jones, who directs the Arts and Humanities in Healthcare Program at AMC. Our team of disability studies folks from UC Denver, UC Colorado Springs, and CU Boulder will also be meeting with Lennard Davis to talk about developing Disability Studies opportunities at our universities.
Hope to see you there!
Amy Vidali, PhD
Assistant Professor of English
Director of Composition
Book/Media Co-Editor, DSQ
University of Colorado Denver
amy.vidali@ucdenver.edu
Saturday, March 3, 2012
All that I can't leave behind: The misadventures of a blind-deaf man who just wants to discard his Braille magazines
Hey, folks!
I had a little adventure, though not an entirely unexpected one, upon my
return from visiting UVa. After I told Chris Krentz about it, he said I
should write it up. Well, here it is, in today's Star Tribune!
Link and text below. Enjoy!
http://www.startribune.com/
All that I can't leave behind
By John Lee Clark
You notice a young man sitting on a park bench with a large book on his lap.
Instead of looking at it, his fingers are flying over its pages. The white
cane leaning against the bench confirms your idea that he is blind. You turn
to the hot dog stand and order a chili dog. Turning back to look at the
bench, you see that the blind man is gone. Lying on the bench is the large
book, a couple of its pages fluttering in the breeze. Scanning around, you
catch him walking briskly a block away. If history is any indication, you will
your chili dog, grab the book and run after him.
How I wish I could get rid of magazines -- for it was a Braille magazine,
not a book, that I left on the bench -- as easily as the sighted do. They
can cast aside an issue anywhere and go on with their lives. Not so with me.
I receive half a dozen magazines every month from the National Library
Services for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. A Braille reader can
"subscribe" to any number of magazines from their list for free. If one borrows books
from the library, they have to be returned, just like print library books.
But the magazines are different. They are not to be returned.
They are yours to keep or throw away.
At home, I always place them in the recycling bin after reading them. But
when I'm traveling, I don't want to lug those bulky editions around with me
after I'm done reading them. So I shed them as I go along, or I attempt to.
At a restaurant, I might finish an issue and leave it behind after paying
the bill and before walking out. More often than not, however, a waiter will
overtake me, panting, and press the Braille magazine into my hands. I am then
forced to smile in gratitude. After walking a safe distance, I will begin looking
for a garbage can.
But even that doesn't always work. I have thrust magazines deep in trash
cans only to have them, dripping with garbage goo, presented to me a few
minutes later. On account of magazines I've discarded, people have run, jumped into
cars, tripped over themselves, called, mailed, asked a mutual acquaintance
to please pass them on to me, or saved them for weeks until, finally seeing
me again, rushing up to me. "There you are! You forgot this last time you
were here." How could I tell them the truth?
Recently, I flew out East to give a lecture on deaf-blind history at the
University of Virginia. In addition to my backpack, I carried a bag with
eight magazine volumes. I succeeded in hiding one of them, after finishing it, in
the seat pocket in front of me before I disembarked in Philadelphia, where
my connecting flight was. I hid another one in the same way on the plane
that landed in Charlottesville. So far, so good.
I didn't have much time to read during the excitement of my stay in town,
but I did finish two more volumes by the time Prof. Christopher Krentz
picked me up from the hotel to take me to the airport. Before checking out, I
decided to just leave those two volumes in my room, rather than look for a
garbage can in the hotel big enough to bury them in. But to be safe, I tore them up.
That would make it clear that they were to be thrown away.
By the time I landed back at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, I had read
through the last four magazine volumes. I hid one of them on the plane, but
felt it too risky to hide the other three in three more seat pockets. On my way
to the where the taxis were, I stepped into a restroom, used it, and right
before exiting, I abandoned the last three issues. Fearing that they might come
back to haunt me, I walked at a smart, almost dangerous clip, my cane
zipping back and forth in front of me. No one caught up with me. I got into a taxi,
and I was home safe!
Or so I thought. Waiting in my inbox at home was an e-mail message from the
hotel manager saying he had my "books." Would I please give him my address
so he could mail them to me?
-------
John Lee Clark, a deaf-blind writer, edited the anthology Deaf American
Poetry (Gallaudet University Press, 2009). His website is at
www.johnleeclark.com.
I had a little adventure, though not an entirely unexpected one, upon my
return from visiting UVa. After I told Chris Krentz about it, he said I
should write it up. Well, here it is, in today's Star Tribune!
Link and text below. Enjoy!
http://www.startribune.com/
All that I can't leave behind
By John Lee Clark
You notice a young man sitting on a park bench with a large book on his lap.
Instead of looking at it, his fingers are flying over its pages. The white
cane leaning against the bench confirms your idea that he is blind. You turn
to the hot dog stand and order a chili dog. Turning back to look at the
bench, you see that the blind man is gone. Lying on the bench is the large
book, a couple of its pages fluttering in the breeze. Scanning around, you
catch him walking briskly a block away. If history is any indication, you will
your chili dog, grab the book and run after him.
How I wish I could get rid of magazines -- for it was a Braille magazine,
not a book, that I left on the bench -- as easily as the sighted do. They
can cast aside an issue anywhere and go on with their lives. Not so with me.
I receive half a dozen magazines every month from the National Library
Services for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. A Braille reader can
"subscribe" to any number of magazines from their list for free. If one borrows books
from the library, they have to be returned, just like print library books.
But the magazines are different. They are not to be returned.
They are yours to keep or throw away.
At home, I always place them in the recycling bin after reading them. But
when I'm traveling, I don't want to lug those bulky editions around with me
after I'm done reading them. So I shed them as I go along, or I attempt to.
At a restaurant, I might finish an issue and leave it behind after paying
the bill and before walking out. More often than not, however, a waiter will
overtake me, panting, and press the Braille magazine into my hands. I am then
forced to smile in gratitude. After walking a safe distance, I will begin looking
for a garbage can.
But even that doesn't always work. I have thrust magazines deep in trash
cans only to have them, dripping with garbage goo, presented to me a few
minutes later. On account of magazines I've discarded, people have run, jumped into
cars, tripped over themselves, called, mailed, asked a mutual acquaintance
to please pass them on to me, or saved them for weeks until, finally seeing
me again, rushing up to me. "There you are! You forgot this last time you
were here." How could I tell them the truth?
Recently, I flew out East to give a lecture on deaf-blind history at the
University of Virginia. In addition to my backpack, I carried a bag with
eight magazine volumes. I succeeded in hiding one of them, after finishing it, in
the seat pocket in front of me before I disembarked in Philadelphia, where
my connecting flight was. I hid another one in the same way on the plane
that landed in Charlottesville. So far, so good.
I didn't have much time to read during the excitement of my stay in town,
but I did finish two more volumes by the time Prof. Christopher Krentz
picked me up from the hotel to take me to the airport. Before checking out, I
decided to just leave those two volumes in my room, rather than look for a
garbage can in the hotel big enough to bury them in. But to be safe, I tore them up.
That would make it clear that they were to be thrown away.
By the time I landed back at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, I had read
through the last four magazine volumes. I hid one of them on the plane, but
felt it too risky to hide the other three in three more seat pockets. On my way
to the where the taxis were, I stepped into a restroom, used it, and right
before exiting, I abandoned the last three issues. Fearing that they might come
back to haunt me, I walked at a smart, almost dangerous clip, my cane
zipping back and forth in front of me. No one caught up with me. I got into a taxi,
and I was home safe!
Or so I thought. Waiting in my inbox at home was an e-mail message from the
hotel manager saying he had my "books." Would I please give him my address
so he could mail them to me?
-------
John Lee Clark, a deaf-blind writer, edited the anthology Deaf American
Poetry (Gallaudet University Press, 2009). His website is at
www.johnleeclark.com.
Friday, March 2, 2012
Modernism and disability website
Dear modernist and disability studies colleagues,
I wanted to let you know about this website, a discussion of disability in modernist literary texts written by several Purdue graduate students. We hope that this site will lead to additional open work on modernism and disability. In the future, we hope to move the site to make it more of a wiki, so that other students and scholars can add to it. (Technical advice welcome!)
http://modernismanddisability.
Best,
Maren Linett
Associate Professor
Department of English
Purdue University
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette IN 47907
I wanted to let you know about this website, a discussion of disability in modernist literary texts written by several Purdue graduate students. We hope that this site will lead to additional open work on modernism and disability. In the future, we hope to move the site to make it more of a wiki, so that other students and scholars can add to it. (Technical advice welcome!)
http://modernismanddisability.
Best,
Maren Linett
Associate Professor
Department of English
Purdue University
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette IN 47907
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Opportunity Notice: Franklin Fellowship
Opportunity to Work with the Special Advisor for International
Disability Rights
U.S. Department of State
Franklin Fellows Program
Position Description
The Program
The U.S. Department of State is the President's primary advisor on the
conduct of international relations. The Department recommends and
implements U.S. foreign policy, managing human and material resources to
engage with over 162 countries and numerous international organizations.
The Department's professionals address critical national security
challenges across the globe, while working in this country with a broad
spectrum of other government agencies, Congress, the non-profit and
private sectors and representatives of foreign governments and entities.
Since the end of the Cold War, the range and complexity of issues facing
the international community have grown exponentially. In order to
strengthen its ability to deal with this plethora of issues and to draw
on the expertise of experienced professionals working in disciplines
related to them, the Department of State has launched the Franklin
Fellows Program <http://careers.state.gov/ff> . Fellows, serving as
unpaid volunteer consultants, provide background and policy
recommendations within their host offices in the Department, and
undertake other duties as directed, including representing the
Department in the interagency context and possibly traveling
internationally on Department business.
Talented, imaginative professionals not only enrich the Department's
deliberations on foreign policy formulation but also are of greater
value to their sponsoring organizations when they return. The
experience gained by Fellows serving within the Department and sharing
their knowledge and expertise to strengthen U.S. public diplomacy is
invaluable, as is their contribution to the U.S. Government.
The Department accepts nominations from universities, non-governmental
organizations and private-sector employers for Franklin Fellows to work
one to two years on a vital issue of concern to the Department. The
Department also accepts offers of financial support for highly qualified
individuals whose organizations may not be able to offer full support
during the Fellowship period. The Department accepts self-nominations,
but such individuals will need to sponsor themselves as the Franklin
Fellows Program <http://careers.state.gov/ff> is not funded by the U.S.
Government. Further information about the Program can be found at:
http://careers.state.gov/ff <http://careers.state.gov/ff>
The following Franklin Fellow position is now open and candidates are
being sought. Interested candidates may contact the Special Advisor
directly at: HeumannJE@state.gov <mailto:HeumannJE@state.gov>
Specialist on International Disability Rights and Inclusion (DRL/SADR)
Synopsis: The Fellow will provide advice and guidance on the development
of policies and strategies to ensure the inclusion of persons in U.S.
public diplomacy efforts and programs. The Fellow will work as part of
a Team under the leadership of Ms. Judith Heumann, Special Advisor for
International Disability Rights located in the Bureau of Democracy,
Human Rights and Labor of the Department of State.
Experience/Expertise:
* Leadership experience advancing the inclusion of women,
persons with disabilities, or other minorities in programs and services
in international development programs, in government service, in an
academic institution or in the private sector
* International professional experience working for an
international organization or multi-national corporation
* Knowledge of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities useful
* Firsthand knowledge of disability, either having a disability
or having a family member with a disability especially useful
* Knowledge of a foreign language(s) useful
Duties/Activities:
* Review and suggest ways to strengthen U.S. public diplomacy in
order to ensure the inclusion of disability issues and persons with
disabilities
* Propose ways to strengthen the inclusion of disability issues
and persons with disabilities in existing or new programs of the State
Department
* Formulate recommendations on additional ways in which
disability rights and the inclusion of persons with disabilities might
be promoted by civil society organizations and the private sector
* Work with the Special Advisor and other officials to
strengthen the inclusion of disability rights in the priorities and
activities of other Bureaus within the State Department
* Maintain contact with and involve interested international and
national partners, particularly organizations of persons with
disabilities, NGOs, universities, private sector companies as well as UN
agencies, in the development and implementation of strategies
* Represent the Special Advisor in meetings of other Offices,
Bureaus, Working Groups and other entities internal to the State
Department
* Participate in external meetings, conferences and missions to
other countries upon the request of the Special Advisor
Mission of the Special Advisor:
The Special Advisor for International Disability Rights is charged with
"the development of a comprehensive strategy to promote the rights of
persons with disabilities internationally; coordinate an interagency
process for the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities; ensure that foreign assistance incorporates persons
with disabilities; ensure that the needs of persons with disabilities
are addressed in international situations; and conduct public diplomacy,
including with civil society, on disability issues".
Visit the Facebook page of the Special Advisor for more information:
http://www.facebook.com/
<http://www.facebook.com/
Disability Rights
U.S. Department of State
Franklin Fellows Program
Position Description
The Program
The U.S. Department of State is the President's primary advisor on the
conduct of international relations. The Department recommends and
implements U.S. foreign policy, managing human and material resources to
engage with over 162 countries and numerous international organizations.
The Department's professionals address critical national security
challenges across the globe, while working in this country with a broad
spectrum of other government agencies, Congress, the non-profit and
private sectors and representatives of foreign governments and entities.
Since the end of the Cold War, the range and complexity of issues facing
the international community have grown exponentially. In order to
strengthen its ability to deal with this plethora of issues and to draw
on the expertise of experienced professionals working in disciplines
related to them, the Department of State has launched the Franklin
Fellows Program <http://careers.state.gov/ff> . Fellows, serving as
unpaid volunteer consultants, provide background and policy
recommendations within their host offices in the Department, and
undertake other duties as directed, including representing the
Department in the interagency context and possibly traveling
internationally on Department business.
Talented, imaginative professionals not only enrich the Department's
deliberations on foreign policy formulation but also are of greater
value to their sponsoring organizations when they return. The
experience gained by Fellows serving within the Department and sharing
their knowledge and expertise to strengthen U.S. public diplomacy is
invaluable, as is their contribution to the U.S. Government.
The Department accepts nominations from universities, non-governmental
organizations and private-sector employers for Franklin Fellows to work
one to two years on a vital issue of concern to the Department. The
Department also accepts offers of financial support for highly qualified
individuals whose organizations may not be able to offer full support
during the Fellowship period. The Department accepts self-nominations,
but such individuals will need to sponsor themselves as the Franklin
Fellows Program <http://careers.state.gov/ff> is not funded by the U.S.
Government. Further information about the Program can be found at:
http://careers.state.gov/ff <http://careers.state.gov/ff>
The following Franklin Fellow position is now open and candidates are
being sought. Interested candidates may contact the Special Advisor
directly at: HeumannJE@state.gov <mailto:HeumannJE@state.gov>
Specialist on International Disability Rights and Inclusion (DRL/SADR)
Synopsis: The Fellow will provide advice and guidance on the development
of policies and strategies to ensure the inclusion of persons in U.S.
public diplomacy efforts and programs. The Fellow will work as part of
a Team under the leadership of Ms. Judith Heumann, Special Advisor for
International Disability Rights located in the Bureau of Democracy,
Human Rights and Labor of the Department of State.
Experience/Expertise:
* Leadership experience advancing the inclusion of women,
persons with disabilities, or other minorities in programs and services
in international development programs, in government service, in an
academic institution or in the private sector
* International professional experience working for an
international organization or multi-national corporation
* Knowledge of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities useful
* Firsthand knowledge of disability, either having a disability
or having a family member with a disability especially useful
* Knowledge of a foreign language(s) useful
Duties/Activities:
* Review and suggest ways to strengthen U.S. public diplomacy in
order to ensure the inclusion of disability issues and persons with
disabilities
* Propose ways to strengthen the inclusion of disability issues
and persons with disabilities in existing or new programs of the State
Department
* Formulate recommendations on additional ways in which
disability rights and the inclusion of persons with disabilities might
be promoted by civil society organizations and the private sector
* Work with the Special Advisor and other officials to
strengthen the inclusion of disability rights in the priorities and
activities of other Bureaus within the State Department
* Maintain contact with and involve interested international and
national partners, particularly organizations of persons with
disabilities, NGOs, universities, private sector companies as well as UN
agencies, in the development and implementation of strategies
* Represent the Special Advisor in meetings of other Offices,
Bureaus, Working Groups and other entities internal to the State
Department
* Participate in external meetings, conferences and missions to
other countries upon the request of the Special Advisor
Mission of the Special Advisor:
The Special Advisor for International Disability Rights is charged with
"the development of a comprehensive strategy to promote the rights of
persons with disabilities internationally; coordinate an interagency
process for the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities; ensure that foreign assistance incorporates persons
with disabilities; ensure that the needs of persons with disabilities
are addressed in international situations; and conduct public diplomacy,
including with civil society, on disability issues".
Visit the Facebook page of the Special Advisor for more information:
http://www.facebook.com/
<http://www.facebook.com/
Call For Papers: Hypatia Special Issue New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies
Dear all,
Please circulate widely.
Thanks,
Kim
Special Issue on New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies
August 15, 2013 submission deadline
Volume 30, Issue 1, Winter 2015
Edited by Kim Q. Hall
Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy is seeking new work for a special issue on disability with the general
theme of New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies. In 2001 Hypatia published its first special issue on
feminist philosophy and disability. Since that time, there has been a great deal of disability scholarship in
feminist and queer theory. A new special issue provides the opportunity to consider interventions, innovations,
and transformations in feminist theory occasioned by theories and concepts that animate feminist disability
studies, disability studies, queer disability studies/crip theory.
Within philosophy, much of the discussion of disability has occurred in the areas of bioethics, ethics of care,
and social and political philosophy. This work remains crucial for furthering philosophical understanding of
disability. In addition to these areas of philosophy, this special issue seeks to provide a space for new feminist
philosophical analyses of disability, as well as new feminist, queer, and feminist queer crip conversations
between scholarship on disability in ethics and social and political philosophy and scholarship on disability in
epistemology, science studies, environmental philosophy, ecofeminism, queer ecology, aesthetics, critical
race theory, metaphysics, phenomenology, and queer theory. Papers on any topic pertaining to feminist or
feminist queer crip analyses of disability are welcome, including (but not limited to) the following:
-Disability and Phenomenology
-Disability and epistemologies of ignorance
-Disability, gender, race, class, and sexuality
-Disability, national identity, and nationalism
-Disability and/as “assemblage”
-Disability and the question of “the animal”
-Disability and posthumanism
-Disability, ethics, and politics
-Disability and globalization
-Access, accommodation, quality of life
-Bodies and borders
-Able-bodiedness and able-mindedness
-Disability and environmentalism, ecology, ecofeminism, and/or queer ecology
-Disability, feminist materialism, and “agential realism”
-The relationship between impairment and disability identity
-Illness, disease, impairment, bodily limitation, pain, failure
-Disability and the meaning and/or experience of sex and gender, transgender, and intersex
-Disability and orientation/ reorientation/ disorientation of understandings of time and space
-Disability, feminist materialism, and “agential realism”
-Disability and critical analyses of science, scientific knowledge, nature, and human nature
-Feminist/queer/crip perspectives on the Occupy Movement and other global movements for economic,
environmental, social, and political justice
-The meaning of art and aesthetic concepts through the lens of disability
-Rethinking the canon of western philosophy through the lens of feminist disability studies
Deadline for submission: August 15, 2013.
Papers should be no more than 8000 words, inclusive of notes and bibliography, prepared for anonymous
review, and accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words. For details please see Hypatia's
submission guidelines http://depts.washington.edu/
Please submit your paper to manuscript central (Wiley-Blackwell) website:
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.
When you submit, make sure to select “Disability” as your manuscript type, and also send an email to the
guest editor, Kim Q. Hall: hallki@appstate.edu, indicating the title of the paper you have submitted.
Kim Q. Hall
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Appalachian State University
114 Greer Hall
Boone, NC 28608
office: (828) 262-6817
fax: (828) 262-6619
Please circulate widely.
Thanks,
Kim
Special Issue on New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies
August 15, 2013 submission deadline
Volume 30, Issue 1, Winter 2015
Edited by Kim Q. Hall
Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy is seeking new work for a special issue on disability with the general
theme of New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies. In 2001 Hypatia published its first special issue on
feminist philosophy and disability. Since that time, there has been a great deal of disability scholarship in
feminist and queer theory. A new special issue provides the opportunity to consider interventions, innovations,
and transformations in feminist theory occasioned by theories and concepts that animate feminist disability
studies, disability studies, queer disability studies/crip theory.
Within philosophy, much of the discussion of disability has occurred in the areas of bioethics, ethics of care,
and social and political philosophy. This work remains crucial for furthering philosophical understanding of
disability. In addition to these areas of philosophy, this special issue seeks to provide a space for new feminist
philosophical analyses of disability, as well as new feminist, queer, and feminist queer crip conversations
between scholarship on disability in ethics and social and political philosophy and scholarship on disability in
epistemology, science studies, environmental philosophy, ecofeminism, queer ecology, aesthetics, critical
race theory, metaphysics, phenomenology, and queer theory. Papers on any topic pertaining to feminist or
feminist queer crip analyses of disability are welcome, including (but not limited to) the following:
-Disability and Phenomenology
-Disability and epistemologies of ignorance
-Disability, gender, race, class, and sexuality
-Disability, national identity, and nationalism
-Disability and/as “assemblage”
-Disability and the question of “the animal”
-Disability and posthumanism
-Disability, ethics, and politics
-Disability and globalization
-Access, accommodation, quality of life
-Bodies and borders
-Able-bodiedness and able-mindedness
-Disability and environmentalism, ecology, ecofeminism, and/or queer ecology
-Disability, feminist materialism, and “agential realism”
-The relationship between impairment and disability identity
-Illness, disease, impairment, bodily limitation, pain, failure
-Disability and the meaning and/or experience of sex and gender, transgender, and intersex
-Disability and orientation/ reorientation/ disorientation of understandings of time and space
-Disability, feminist materialism, and “agential realism”
-Disability and critical analyses of science, scientific knowledge, nature, and human nature
-Feminist/queer/crip perspectives on the Occupy Movement and other global movements for economic,
environmental, social, and political justice
-The meaning of art and aesthetic concepts through the lens of disability
-Rethinking the canon of western philosophy through the lens of feminist disability studies
Deadline for submission: August 15, 2013.
Papers should be no more than 8000 words, inclusive of notes and bibliography, prepared for anonymous
review, and accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words. For details please see Hypatia's
submission guidelines http://depts.washington.edu/
Please submit your paper to manuscript central (Wiley-Blackwell) website:
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.
When you submit, make sure to select “Disability” as your manuscript type, and also send an email to the
guest editor, Kim Q. Hall: hallki@appstate.edu, indicating the title of the paper you have submitted.
Kim Q. Hall
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Appalachian State University
114 Greer Hall
Boone, NC 28608
office: (828) 262-6817
fax: (828) 262-6619
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