Disability studies: new conference; two new journals
This weekend Atlanta's Emory University hosts the Modern Language
Assn's Conference on Disability Studies and the University. The
Conference website says it's "the first national conference in the
humanities for members of the academic community who are committed to
diversity and who want to know more about disability studies and how
it can shape learning environments." There'll be sessions on
"defining disability," "what disability studies teaches us about
learning," "the inclusive university," "disability studies and the
humanities," "developing disability studies programs and minors,"
"disability identity" and "coming out in the classroom." Over two
dozen speakers include most of the nation's pre-eminent disability
studies scholars. There's more information at
http://www.mla.org/conference_on_disabi
The Disability Studies Quarterly, founded by early disability studies
scholar Irving Kenneth Zola nearly 25 years ago, started 2004 with a
changed home -- its website is now hosted by the American Foundation
for the Blind and can be accessed at http://www.dsq-sds.org/ The
journal's new editors, Corinne Kirchner, Ph.D., Director of Policy
Research and Evaluation at the Foundation in New York, and Beth
Haller, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Journalism at Towson University
in Maryland, say they are "strengthening the journal's peer reviewing
process, expanding the book and video review section to add an
emphasis on popular commercial films and theatre, and guaranteeing
the highest level of online journal accessibility for blind and
visually impaired readers." They are looking for "original research
for peer review, research in progress, pilot studies,
commentary/essay, fiction, and poetry. Letters to the editors, news
from the disability studies field, and calls for papers are also
welcomed," they say. The first issue of 2004 focuses on children's
literature; access it at http://www.afb.org/dsq/current_issue.html
Until now, DSQ's website was affiliated with the Center for
Disability Studies at the University of Hawaii; however, that center
is now hosting a new disabiltiy studies journal, the Review of
Disability Studies: An International Journal. RSD's inaugural issue,
published last month, is dedicated to the journal's founding editor,
the late Dr. David Pfeiffer. The Inaugural Issue includes a tribute
to Dr. Pfeiffer from many of his friends and colleagues, as well as a
forum on "Disability Culture: A Decade of Change." More at
http://www.rds.hawaii.edu ; you can download the inaugural issue in
either Word or PDF format.
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