International Network Of Literary And Cultural Disability Scholars

SCANDAL & BEAUTY - Mon 9pm, BBC4: a documentary about disabled artist Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898). Dr Alex Tankard, associate member of the CCDS and author of Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Invalid Lives, was interviewed by Mark Gatis on Beardsley’s experience of chronic illness.

David Bolt's Inaugural Professorial lecture now available on the CCDS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REo8i-QLu hE

Tom Walker's interview with Steve Daley, a visually impaired footballer who plays for the Merseyside Partially Sighted Football Team.
https://youtu.be/3MgmVjzO0fI

The Symposium of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies: Genre, Disability, and Cultural Representation
Date: Wednesday 1 July, 2020 Time: 9:30am–2:30pm... Place: EDEN Arbour Room, Liverpool Hope University, UK
The Symposium of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies offers an opportunity for established and emerging scholars to explore and exchange new ideas about literary and cultural representations and theories of disability. It is hosted by the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies (CCDS) at Liverpool Hope University. The CCDS is the institutional base for the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies (Liverpool University Press), which is about to publish its 40th issue.
Proposals are invited for 10-15 minute presentations on any aspect of disability, culture, and representation. A focus of this symposium is genre, engagement with which is therefore particularly encouraged. The event will conclude with the launch of Dr Ria Cheyne’s new monograph, Disability, Literature, Genre: Representation and Affect in Contemporary Fiction (Liverpool University Press).
Proposals of 150-200 words should be sent to ccds@hope.ac.uk on or before 1 March, 2020. Note that late submissions cannot be accepted.
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Liverpool Hope University, School of Social Sciences, Distinguished Lecture Series
Wednesday 22nd January 2019, 5.30pm. FML 014, Hope Park Campus
... Dr Amy Pollard is the Founder and Director of Mental Health Collective. She is a social scientist, facilitator and policy analyst
Dignity under the Mental Health Act: A lived experience account and a journey forward
Only one third of those detained under the Mental Health Act say that they were treated with dignity and respect – and Amy Pollard was no exception. In this lecture, she gives an account of her personal experience of being sectioned, following a breakdown in 2016 when her youngest daughter was 8 months old. She describes her experience of emerging crisis, the failure of services, acute admission and mother and baby unit – the role of humanity and compassion in her recovery and the lessons for services. Amy describes how this personal experience led her to found a new organisation, the Mental Health Collective, become Chair of the Topic Group on Dignity and Safety for the Mental Health Act review, and start a new tradition – #GreatBritishValentine – which is spreading random acts of kindness the length and breadth of the country.
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Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies
Special issue: Advertising and diversity: The framing of disability in promotional spaces
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The School of Disability Studies, Ryerson University is pleased to announce two Post-Doctoral Fellowship opportunities for 2020. Please find the details for each below. Questions can be directed via email to Dr. Esther Ignagni at eignagni@ryerson.ca.
The Ethel Louise Armstrong Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Disability Studies https://www.ryerson.ca/…/ethel-louise-a rmstrong-post-docto…/
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Disability and the University: A Disabled Students’ Manifesto
Edited by Christopher McMaster and Benjamin Whitburn With a foreword by Mike Oliver
... Disability and the University: A Disabled Students’ Manifesto is a guide to what students with disabilities need to know about attending university, as well as to the essentials universities should provide for these students. Each chapter presents a benchmark for students to follow as they travel through the institution, and lays clear what they should expect. Written by former students with disabilities who have traversed the terrain and experienced higher education, this book is not about disabled students, but instead is a manifesto, a call for change, a call to action. It is a guidebook, blueprint, and tool for both students and universities.
Disability and the University is divided into four parts, each examining crucial aspects of higher education, including the culture of the academy, movement beyond the limits of compliance, access to and in the institution, and disability rights. Each chapter is a statement of what every institution of higher education should provide for disabled students.
While every country has its own practice and laws based on its own experience, arbitrary national boundaries should no longer be a reason for practices that do not meet student needs. Disability and the University speaks across borders, and leaves no doubt about what needs to be done to develop more inclusive teaching and learning spaces.
Available in Paperback, Hardback, Epub and PDF Peter Lang International: https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/6764 7
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This is a call for proposal for the Alter 2020 Conference which will be held from the 8th to 10th July in Rennes (France). The Alter conference is directed at everyone involved in human and social science research on disability and the loss of autonomy: including work that addresses conceptional and organisational aspects of research, field research, scientific production, qualitative and quantitative methods, etc. Responses about all social fields are welcome (education, emp...loyment, culture and recreation, housing, transport, human and technical assistance, political participation, emotional and sexual life, etc.). This 9th conference aims to discuss the construction of normality and, more broadly, the system of thought that structures our societies in which being “able” is the norm in the sense of both the most widespread and the most desirable situation. The aim of this critical perspective is therefore to highlight how our societies are structured in relation to the notion of the able individual. While the recent call to build inclusive societies would appear to herald a radical turning point, what is the reality? Have we truly finished with representations of disability that tend towards the negative, the defective or even the tragic? To what extend are the “heroized” figures of disability, omnipresent in the public space, perpetrating the representation of disability as a deviation from the norm? Some researchers and activists refer to this dominant construction of norm and disability as the notion of ableism. How does the research contribute to this analysis of the norm(s) and how can we take it into account in the way we conduct our own researches? Deadline for the call for proposals : 20th January 2020. Submission on the website https://alterconf2020.sciencesconf.org To submit your proposal, please create your sciencesconf account. This account gives you access to the Sciencesconf platform and all the sites of the conference: https://www.sciencesconf.org/user/createa ccount?lang=en
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Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies:
Volume 13, Issue 4
... General Issue
JLCDS is available from Liverpool University Press, online and in print, to institutional and individual subscribers; it is also part of the Project MUSE collection to which the links below point.
Articles
Sexy Like Us: Expanding Notions of Disability and Sexuality Through Burlesque Performance Teresa Milbrodt https://muse.jhu.edu/article/742514
Fantasies of Control: Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency in the Second Wave Rebecah Pulsifer https://muse.jhu.edu/article/742515
Medicine, Subjectivity, and the Representation of Disability in Una posibilidad entre mil Elizabeth Jan Jones https://muse.jhu.edu/article/742516
A (Not So) Personal Matter: Understanding Disability in Kenzaburō Ōe's Early Novels Liz Shek-Noble https://muse.jhu.edu/article/742517
Geographies of Disability in the Letters of Rimbaud: Mapping Colonialism and Disablement in Yemen and Ethiopia Emily Jane O'Dell https://muse.jhu.edu/article/742518
The Gothic Grotesque: Disability, Deformity, and Monstrosity in Faulkner's Sanctuary Sebastian A. Williams https://muse.jhu.edu/article/742519
Comment from the Field Provocations in Critical Disability Studies, Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences, University of Sheffield Leah Burch https://muse.jhu.edu/article/742520
Book Reviews Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness by Melanie Yergeau (review) Maria Karmiris https://muse.jhu.edu/article/742521
Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)Ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk (review) David T. Mitchell https://muse.jhu.edu/article/742522
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CCDS Seminar: Living as if we already know what ‘human’ will be by Dr Mike Gulliver
Living as if we already know what ‘human’ will be: exploring the anticipated futures of visual/deaf humanity and how they shape the present
Dr Mike Gulliver, University of Bristol
... Date: 20 November 2019 Time: 2.00–3.30pm Place: EDEN Arbour room, Liverpool Hope University, UK BSL Interpreted Event
A post-deaf world would be celebrated by many. However, for some deaf people—those who see themselves not as disabled, but as a ‘people of the eye’ (Veditz 1910), who celebrate their natural, sign languages and their unique, signed cultures as the global heritage of a ‘visual form of humanity’ (Bahan 2011)—post-deafness represents a narrowing of humanity towards a less diverse, less creative, less… ‘human’ future. Even as the idealism of post-deafness is challenged, though, its inevitability is already being anticipated by policy makers. As it becomes common to assume that technologies are now available to help deaf people choose to become ‘hearing and speaking’ people, alternatives to a post-deaf reality become more and more difficult to imagine. This seminar explores post-deafness, to uncover how future visions of disability shape the present, and the tension between our agency to keep the future open, and the inertia of the ‘inevitable’.
Mike Gulliver is based at the University of Bristol and is affiliated with its department of Historical Studies and the Brigstow Institute. He is also affiliated with Heriot Watt University’s Centre for Translation, and its Intercultural Research Centre, and is a Trustee of the Deaf Studies Trust.
This seminar is part of the Disability Futurity series organised by the CCDS in collaboration with Carleton University’s Disability Research Group, Canada: • 27.02.19 Reading Down syndrome: past, present, future?, Helen Davies, Hope. • 27.03.19 Art Education and Disability Futurity: Subjects on the Edge, Claire Penketh, Hope. • 05.06.19 Disabled people and subjugated knowledges: new understandings and strategies developed by people living with chronic conditions, Ana Bê, Hope. • 20.11.19 Living as if we already know what ‘human’ will be: exploring the anticipated futures of visual/deaf humanity and how they shape the present, Mike Gulliver, Hope. • 22.01.20 Representations of Disability Experience in Live Theatre, seeley quest, Carleton. • 05.02.20 The role of risk in relation to Special Educational Needs and Disability, Sharon Smith, Hope. • 18.03.20 Exploring Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in Time: Life, death, and futurity in rehabilitation, Thomas Abrams, Carleton. • 08.04.20 Spectral Risk and the Future of Disability, Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire, Carleton. • 22.06.20 Disability Histories and Futures of the Nation, Gildas Bregain, Beth Robertson, and Paul van Trigt, Carleton.
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Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies Special issue: Advertising and diversity: The framing of disability in promotional spaces
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Peripheral Theatre Presents
Precarious Perception
October 29th 7PM at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre... 12 Alexander St. Toronto, ON M4Y 1B4 A Free Performance Cash Bar Accessible Venue
A DISABILITY STUDIES PERFORMANCE EVENT!
Through theatre and drama, this event engages disability representation, in particular blindness, as a performance in everyday life. Blind authors and scholars, Dr. Devon Healey and Dr. Rod Michalko bring their most recent works to life through 2 dramatic readings. Infused with jazz and featuring local talent this one night only performance-event will reflect on how the life of blindness is one lived in relation to the blind self, the sighted world and the street.
CAST:
Nate Bitton Saphire Demitro Tim MacLean Tanya Titkchkosky Rod Michalko Devon Healey
Questions? Please contact Devon Healey at devon.healey@mail.utoronto.ca with the subject line, Precarious Perception.
Sponsored by New College at the University of Toronto.
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Key Issues in Special Educational Needs, Disability and Inclusion: 3rd Edition
The third edition of Dr Alan Hodkinson’s book has now been published. This edition continues to guide students through the challenging field of special educational needs and disability. Contextualising SEND in relation to historical, ideological and political developments, this book offers essential support to students as they develop a critical and up-to-date understanding of the practical chall...enges and opportunities concerning inclusion. New edition features include: • Up-to-date legislation, such as the SEND Code of Practice • Material surrounding social, emotional and mental Heath • New practical case studies, reflections and activities • Revised chapter summaries • More on the future of SEND
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CFP for chapters for a new book project on Discussing Disability: http://www.michaeljeffress.com/discussing -disability-cfp.ht…

The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability, edited by David Bolt, Julia Miele Rodas and Elizabeth J. Donaldson and available open access: https://kb.osu.edu/bitstre…/handle/…/ 53188/BOLT_Book4CD.pdf…

Dear All
Edith Cowan University in Western Australia is seeking to appoint outstanding early and mid career researchers. The Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellowships are open to emerging and leading researchers with a record of accomplishment in their field, who can significantly contribute to ECU’s new research strategy.
The VC’s Fellowships are open to Australian and International Applicants.
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