Deadline: July 22, 2012, at 11:59 PM Pacific Time
The Disability Studies in Education Special Interest Group of AERA invites
submissions to the 2013 conference, April 27-May 1, in San Francisco. The
theme of the conference, Education and Poverty: Theory, Research, Policy and
Praxis, is particularly generative for disability studies scholarship in
affirming its interest in the intersectionality of disability with other
dimensions of human experience. As disability studies in education continues
to interrogate flawed assumptions of dis/ability within schooling systems
and actively pursues the transformation of such systems to remain hospitable
to students from marginalized groups, the conference theme is provocative
for investigating linkages that can support this endeavor. To this end, we
welcome proposals that:
· Investigate the construction of disability in the context of
meritocratic systems that create, mask and perpetuate inequalities related
to ability, social class, race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, geography,
nationality, language, and religion, and other stratifying categories
· Situate the field of disabilities in education in the context of
increasingly globalized markets and the concomitant production of inequities
in national and international settings
· Seek to cross academic and other boundaries in investigating the
lived experiences of people with disabilities, their families, and their
teachers.
· Offer innovative methodological approaches that investigate the
experience of disability in schooling and other contexts in respectful,
participatory and humanizing ways
· Disclose the complexities and tensions within efforts to
conceptualize a pedagogy for diversity in inclusive settings
· Illustrate interdisciplinary approaches that offer new and/or
deepened theoretical insights for an inclusive pedagogy
· Report historical research informed by disability studies that deepen
understandings of constructions of disability within educational systems
· Analyze policy and legislative trends for their role in perpetuating
inequities along ability, social class, and other lines
For more information please contact:
Zachary McCall, University of Missouri-Kansas City, mccallz@umkc.edu
Srikala Naraian, Teachers College, Columbia University, naraian@tc.edu
Julia M. White, PhD
Assistant Professor
Director, Inclusive and Special Education Program
Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education & Human Development
PO Box 270425, Dewey Hall 1-160D
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627
Office: 585.273.5090
Fax: 585.473.7598
email: jwhite@warner.rochester.edu
Friday, June 8, 2012
CFP: Disabilities in Children’s Literature: A Special Issue of Children’s Literature Association Quarterly
Disabilities in Children’s Literature: A Special Issue of Children’s
Literature Association Quarterly
full name / name of organization:
Children's Literature Association Quarterly
contact email:
spollard@cnu.edu
Disability Studies is an interdisciplinary field that began its rise to
prominence in the late twentieth century, marked by the founding of the
Society for Disability Studies in 1982. The portrayal of disabilities is a
well-developed substrata of children’s literature, and scholarly work has
been produced on it, primarily in the social sciences. ChLAQ will devote a
single issue to literary approaches to representations of disabilities in
children’s and adolescent literatures.
Papers should conform to the usual style of ChLAQ and be between 5000-7000
words in length. Please submit completed essays to Scott Pollard (
spollard@cnu.edu) by 1 November 2012. The selected articles will appear in
ChLAQ 38.3, Fall 2013.
Literature Association Quarterly
full name / name of organization:
Children's Literature Association Quarterly
contact email:
spollard@cnu.edu
Disability Studies is an interdisciplinary field that began its rise to
prominence in the late twentieth century, marked by the founding of the
Society for Disability Studies in 1982. The portrayal of disabilities is a
well-developed substrata of children’s literature, and scholarly work has
been produced on it, primarily in the social sciences. ChLAQ will devote a
single issue to literary approaches to representations of disabilities in
children’s and adolescent literatures.
Papers should conform to the usual style of ChLAQ and be between 5000-7000
words in length. Please submit completed essays to Scott Pollard (
spollard@cnu.edu) by 1 November 2012. The selected articles will appear in
ChLAQ 38.3, Fall 2013.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Great news: Susan Nussbaum wins major award
New York City, June 5, 2012—PEN American Center, the largest branch of the world’s oldest literary and human rights organization, joined Barbara Kingsolver, founder of the Bellwether Prize, and Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, a division of Workman Publishing, to announce Susan Nussbaum as the winner of the 2012 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Nussbaum receives $25,000 and a publishing contract with Algonquin Books for her manuscript Good Kings Bad Kings.
This is the first year that PEN is partnering with Kingsolver and Algonquin Books. “We are very excited to be partnering with Barbara Kingsolver in recognizing the rise of a bright, new literary talent whose work reflects an engagement with the type of social issues that PEN American Center tackles daily,” said PEN President Peter Godwin. “This important prize is a fitting addition to our roster of other distinguished awards, which will raise awareness across all the literary genres we celebrate.”
“The characters in Good Kings Bad Kings made me laugh, over and over again, and cry and cheer,” said Barbara Kingsolver. “This is fiction at its best. The story’s sharp eye allows no one to take shelter, and it doesn’t flinch; it is simply and breathtakingly honest. A stunning accomplishment.”
Good Kings Bad Kings follows the lives of residents at the ILLC, an institution for juveniles with disabilities, where friendships are forged, trust is built, and love affairs begin, all despite an atmosphere of neglect and abuse. In this alliance the residents of ILLC ultimately find the strength to resist their mistreatment and fight back. With humor and an authentic eye, Good Kings Bad Kings tells the story of their struggle for dignity and self-determination.
A lifelong Chicagoresident, Nussbaum’s plays have been produced at many theaters. Her play Mishuganismo is included in the anthology Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out and her play No One As Nasty is included in Beyond Victims and Villains: Contemporary Plays by Playwrights with Disabilities. In 2008 she was cited by the Utne Reader as one of “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World” for her work with girls with disabilities.
Susan Nussbaum traveled to New York Cityfor the announcement made this morning by Barbara Kingsolver at BookExpo America in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Kingsolver and Nussbaum were joined by PEN president Peter Godwin, Algonquin Books, and previous Bellwether winners Heidi Durrow (The Girl Who Fell from the Sky) and Hillary Jordan (Mudbound) at the press conference for editors, publishers, agents, press, booksellers, and librarians from around the country.
The Bellwether Prize, which was established in 2000 and is maintained through a generous endowment by Barbara Kingsolver, promotes fiction that addresses issues of social justice and the impact of culture and politics on human relationships. Now administered by PEN American Center, the first PEN/Bellwether Prize will be conferred on Susan Nussbaum at PEN’s Literary Awards Ceremony at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City on October 23, 2012.
Previous Bellwether Prize recipients include Donna M. Gershten’s Kissing the Virgin’s Mouth in 2000 (HarperCollins); Gayle Brandeis’s The Book of Dead Birds in 2002 (HarperCollins); Marjorie Kowalski Cole’s Correcting the Landscape in 2004 (HarperCollins), Hillary Jordan’s Mudbound<http://www.workman.
The PEN Literary Awards are the most comprehensive in the United States. Each year, with the help of its partners and supporters, PEN awards more than $150,000 to writers, editors, and translators. More information about the PEN Awards can be found at www.pen.org/awards<http://www.
About PEN American Center
PEN American Center is the largest of the 145 centers of PEN International, the world’s oldest human rights organization and the oldest international literary organization. International PEN was founded in 1921 to dispel national, ethnic, and racial tensions and to promote understanding among all countries. PEN American Center, founded a year later, works to advance literature, to defend free expression, and to foster international literary fellowship. Its two thousand distinguished members carry on the achievements in literature and advancement of human rights of such past members as James Baldwin, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, Arthur Miller, Marianne Moore, Eugene O’Neill, Susan Sontag, and John Steinbeck. To learn more about the PEN American Center, please visit www.pen.org<http://www.pen.
Jim Ferris, Ph.D.
Ability Center Endowed Chair in Disability Studies
University of Toledo
2801 W. Bancroft St., MS 920
Toledo, Ohio 43606
This is the first year that PEN is partnering with Kingsolver and Algonquin Books. “We are very excited to be partnering with Barbara Kingsolver in recognizing the rise of a bright, new literary talent whose work reflects an engagement with the type of social issues that PEN American Center tackles daily,” said PEN President Peter Godwin. “This important prize is a fitting addition to our roster of other distinguished awards, which will raise awareness across all the literary genres we celebrate.”
“The characters in Good Kings Bad Kings made me laugh, over and over again, and cry and cheer,” said Barbara Kingsolver. “This is fiction at its best. The story’s sharp eye allows no one to take shelter, and it doesn’t flinch; it is simply and breathtakingly honest. A stunning accomplishment.”
Good Kings Bad Kings follows the lives of residents at the ILLC, an institution for juveniles with disabilities, where friendships are forged, trust is built, and love affairs begin, all despite an atmosphere of neglect and abuse. In this alliance the residents of ILLC ultimately find the strength to resist their mistreatment and fight back. With humor and an authentic eye, Good Kings Bad Kings tells the story of their struggle for dignity and self-determination.
A lifelong Chicagoresident, Nussbaum’s plays have been produced at many theaters. Her play Mishuganismo is included in the anthology Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out and her play No One As Nasty is included in Beyond Victims and Villains: Contemporary Plays by Playwrights with Disabilities. In 2008 she was cited by the Utne Reader as one of “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World” for her work with girls with disabilities.
Susan Nussbaum traveled to New York Cityfor the announcement made this morning by Barbara Kingsolver at BookExpo America in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Kingsolver and Nussbaum were joined by PEN president Peter Godwin, Algonquin Books, and previous Bellwether winners Heidi Durrow (The Girl Who Fell from the Sky) and Hillary Jordan (Mudbound) at the press conference for editors, publishers, agents, press, booksellers, and librarians from around the country.
The Bellwether Prize, which was established in 2000 and is maintained through a generous endowment by Barbara Kingsolver, promotes fiction that addresses issues of social justice and the impact of culture and politics on human relationships. Now administered by PEN American Center, the first PEN/Bellwether Prize will be conferred on Susan Nussbaum at PEN’s Literary Awards Ceremony at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City on October 23, 2012.
Previous Bellwether Prize recipients include Donna M. Gershten’s Kissing the Virgin’s Mouth in 2000 (HarperCollins); Gayle Brandeis’s The Book of Dead Birds in 2002 (HarperCollins); Marjorie Kowalski Cole’s Correcting the Landscape in 2004 (HarperCollins), Hillary Jordan’s Mudbound<http://www.workman.
The PEN Literary Awards are the most comprehensive in the United States. Each year, with the help of its partners and supporters, PEN awards more than $150,000 to writers, editors, and translators. More information about the PEN Awards can be found at www.pen.org/awards<http://www.
About PEN American Center
PEN American Center is the largest of the 145 centers of PEN International, the world’s oldest human rights organization and the oldest international literary organization. International PEN was founded in 1921 to dispel national, ethnic, and racial tensions and to promote understanding among all countries. PEN American Center, founded a year later, works to advance literature, to defend free expression, and to foster international literary fellowship. Its two thousand distinguished members carry on the achievements in literature and advancement of human rights of such past members as James Baldwin, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, Arthur Miller, Marianne Moore, Eugene O’Neill, Susan Sontag, and John Steinbeck. To learn more about the PEN American Center, please visit www.pen.org<http://www.pen.
Jim Ferris, Ph.D.
Ability Center Endowed Chair in Disability Studies
University of Toledo
2801 W. Bancroft St., MS 920
Toledo, Ohio 43606
Monday, June 4, 2012
New International Website For The Disabled Community
Hi All,
There is a new website akin to craigslist for the disability community. Unfortunately, since it's so new, there's not much in the way of classifieds, etc., but the potential is there. It's free and even international. The site owner (Barry Tribelsky) built bookcases for me.
http://www.disabledservices.
Cheers,
Leilani
_____________
Leilani R. Hall, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
California State University Northridge
18111 Nordhoff St.
Northridge, CA 91330-8248
There is a new website akin to craigslist for the disability community. Unfortunately, since it's so new, there's not much in the way of classifieds, etc., but the potential is there. It's free and even international. The site owner (Barry Tribelsky) built bookcases for me.
http://www.disabledservices.
Cheers,
Leilani
_____________
Leilani R. Hall, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
California State University Northridge
18111 Nordhoff St.
Northridge, CA 91330-8248
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Wheel-Mouse vs All The Crazy Robots By Celyn Lawrence Age 8
Superlative piece by prominent U.K. disability campaigner, Kaliya Franklin, and a wonderful book by a talented little girl, for the benefit of the children's hospice charity:
http://benefitscroungingscum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/wheel-mouse-vs-all-crazy-robots-by.html
http://benefitscroungingscum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/wheel-mouse-vs-all-crazy-robots-by.html
"Push Girls" information
Hi, all. Here are links to a bunch of articles on "Push Girls," a TV documentary series that's set to debut on the Sundance Channel tomorrow. Some of the URLs are rather lengthy, and you may have to cut and paste them into a new browser window.
http://www.reuters.com/article
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/
http://www.philly.com/philly/e
--Marty Norden
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Martin F. Norden
Communication Dept., 409 Machmer Hall norden(at)comm.umass.edu
University of Massachusetts-Amherst fax: 413 545-6399
Amherst, MA 01003 USA vox: 413 545-0598
Home page: http://people.umass.edu/norden
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http://www.reuters.com/article
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/
http://www.philly.com/philly/e
--Marty Norden
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Martin F. Norden
Communication Dept., 409 Machmer Hall norden(at)comm.umass.edu
University of Massachusetts-Amherst fax: 413 545-6399
Amherst, MA 01003 USA vox: 413 545-0598
Home page: http://people.umass.edu/norden
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Friday, June 1, 2012
CFP: Collection on Disability, Human Rights, and Humanitarianism
Notwithstanding the rise of disability studies as a foundation for
university curricula and programming throughout the nation and across
the globe, the interstitial nature of the field (which enables
multivalent conversations about bodies, (im)mobility, and hegemonic
norms) has by and large been overlooked in scholarly evaluations of
human rights and humanitarianism. Even though disability is
specifically mentioned in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human
Rights (UDHR), it is often cast as a symptomatic rather than a root
issue in human rights. And, the question of “what to do” with those
considered “disabled” necessarily accesses the problematical terrain
of humanitarianism (replete with considerations of care and
caregiving). This collection challenges those paradigms by relocating
disability studies from the margins to the center.
The editors seek to consider the following questions: What are the
lasting impacts of the reduction of disability benefits? How are
disabled people positioned in efforts to reduce poverty or address
inequalities? How does ablenationalism threaten disabled individuals
and their quality of life? Within a capitalistic system of production
and labor, how are disabled bodies configured as “expendable” or
“unnecessary” and in turn part of the “deserving poor”? How does the
UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (2008) hold
governments accountable for ensuring that their disabled citizens
receive opportunities to access their rights? The editors are also
particularly interested in papers that address any of the following
themes:
• Material aspects of disability including tensions between
material/ideological representations of disability
• Ramifications of the law vis-à-vis disability claims
• The precarious positioning of disability in human rights discourse
• Global perspectives on disability
• Sport and disability
• Feminist approaches to disability and human rights
• Expansive discussions on the intersections of disability with other
identity categories
• Engagements with critical race studies and queer theories
• Labor and class based analysis of disability and human rights
• Contemporary engagements with various crises (including the Occupy
movement and the Hardest Hit marches)
• Relationship between disability, refugee status, and freedom of movement
• LGBT/Disability asylum claims
• Notions of empathy and structures of compassion (by way of various
embodiments)
• Neoliberal and transnational analyses of disability and human rights
• Examination of pity and affect as well as the use of vulnerability
• Discussions of children and childhood including family structures
and care giving
• Custodial issues connected to disability
Deadlines: June 30th, 2012: Abstract of 500 words sent to editors
September 30th, 2012: Full manuscripts sent to
editors
Papers should be between 6000 and 7000 words, including notes and
works cited. All submissions will undergo review both by the editors
as well as external review through the press. Feel free to contact
Cathy Schlund-Vials (cathy.schlund-vials@uconn.edu
university curricula and programming throughout the nation and across
the globe, the interstitial nature of the field (which enables
multivalent conversations about bodies, (im)mobility, and hegemonic
norms) has by and large been overlooked in scholarly evaluations of
human rights and humanitarianism. Even though disability is
specifically mentioned in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human
Rights (UDHR), it is often cast as a symptomatic rather than a root
issue in human rights. And, the question of “what to do” with those
considered “disabled” necessarily accesses the problematical terrain
of humanitarianism (replete with considerations of care and
caregiving). This collection challenges those paradigms by relocating
disability studies from the margins to the center.
The editors seek to consider the following questions: What are the
lasting impacts of the reduction of disability benefits? How are
disabled people positioned in efforts to reduce poverty or address
inequalities? How does ablenationalism threaten disabled individuals
and their quality of life? Within a capitalistic system of production
and labor, how are disabled bodies configured as “expendable” or
“unnecessary” and in turn part of the “deserving poor”? How does the
UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (2008) hold
governments accountable for ensuring that their disabled citizens
receive opportunities to access their rights? The editors are also
particularly interested in papers that address any of the following
themes:
• Material aspects of disability including tensions between
material/ideological representations of disability
• Ramifications of the law vis-à-vis disability claims
• The precarious positioning of disability in human rights discourse
• Global perspectives on disability
• Sport and disability
• Feminist approaches to disability and human rights
• Expansive discussions on the intersections of disability with other
identity categories
• Engagements with critical race studies and queer theories
• Labor and class based analysis of disability and human rights
• Contemporary engagements with various crises (including the Occupy
movement and the Hardest Hit marches)
• Relationship between disability, refugee status, and freedom of movement
• LGBT/Disability asylum claims
• Notions of empathy and structures of compassion (by way of various
embodiments)
• Neoliberal and transnational analyses of disability and human rights
• Examination of pity and affect as well as the use of vulnerability
• Discussions of children and childhood including family structures
and care giving
• Custodial issues connected to disability
Deadlines: June 30th, 2012: Abstract of 500 words sent to editors
September 30th, 2012: Full manuscripts sent to
editors
Papers should be between 6000 and 7000 words, including notes and
works cited. All submissions will undergo review both by the editors
as well as external review through the press. Feel free to contact
Cathy Schlund-Vials (cathy.schlund-vials@uconn.edu
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