CFP: Disability Studies (6/15/05; MAPACA, 11/4/05-11/6/05)

Call for Papers

Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association

Annual Conference * Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick, NJ

November 4-6, 2005

Disability Studies is a recent and growing discipline that draws on work
done in fields as diverse as history, health sciences, english,
anthropology, women's studies, and education. Papers interested in exploring the lived experience of disability, fictional representations of disability, or
disability studies itself are all equally welcome. Following are some
possible questions to consider: What gives a human life value? How does
 a culture's attitudes about disability reveal its most basic assumptions
 and ideologies? How does the lived experience(s) of disability vary according
to class, gender, race, sexuality, and/or culture? How have our definitions of disability changed over time? And finally, what is at stake when we "out"/claim our disability?

To submit a proposal, please send a 150-word abstract (include AV needs *
only VCR/monitor or carousel projectors/screens) and a brief CV or bio in the body of the email to A. Smith, adsmith_at_mail.ucf.edu, by June 15, 2005. Panels of 3 or 4 presenters, single papers, roundtables, or alternative formats are all encouraged. Sliding scale registration fees apply.

Alison Smith
Visiting Instructor
English Department
University of Central Florida

"i talk it and i teach it
     and i poet and i preach it
     and i hold it and i mold it
     and i know it so i give it.
     cause i'm sure that i believe

    i'm still learning how to live it."
                        alix olson

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