Present Difference: The Cultural Production of Disability

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Present Difference: The Cultural Production of Disability

Manchester Metropolitan University in Conjunction with BBC Northwest and the
Cultural Disability Studies Research Network
Wednesday 6th - Friday 8th January 2010

This conference seeks to address the contemporary cultural production of
disability within and across local and global contexts.
Its focus is upon representation both in the sense of the production and
circulation of particular narratives, ideas and images of
disability and non-disability, and in the sense of the participation of
disabled cultural practitioners in the production of
culture.

We invite proposals from all stakeholders in the mass mediated production of
disability across a variety of themes and from a
diversity of perspectives within this disparate field of enquiry.

Submissions are invited from both disabled and non-disabled media producers
and policy makers, creative practitioners, disability
activists and academics.

Suggested themes include (but are not limited to):

policy and practice, television, film, radio, literature, life writing,
journalism, comedy, advertising, new media, social
networking, theatre, art, popular music, animation, gaming, and marketing
and publicity in the charity and voluntary sectors.

Topics to include (but are not limited to):

¡ How do different mediums construct the relationship between
disability and non-disability, human variation and human
difference?
¡ In what ways do and have policy makers responded to the call for
inclusive practices and representations of human
variation?
¡ What is the relationship between genre and the discursive relations
of dis/ability?
¡ What is the role of the audience in the recognition and construction
of dis/ability?

The conference aims to be as varied and inclusive as possible so suggested
formats include but are not limited to: round tables,
forums, debates, panels, posters, creative pieces, DVDs, websites and media
and art projects in progress. Sessions will be
timetabled for 1hr 30mins.

Abstracts (max 250 words) and biographical notes (max 150 words) for
individual and/or group papers, panels or alternative
formats to be sent by Friday 10th April 2009 to:
presentdifference AT yahoo.co.uk.

Enquiries to Dr Lucy Burke, Department of English,Manchester Metropolitan
University, email: l.burke AT mmu.ac.uk

______________________________
Dan Goodley
Professor of Psychology and Disability Studies
Manchester Metropolitan University
RIHSC
Psychology and Social Change
Gaskell Campus
Manchester, M13 0JA
E-mail: d.goodley AT mmu.ac.uk
http://www.rihsc.mmu.ac.uk/

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The interconnections of disabled childhoods"
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