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Newberry Library
Center for Renaissance Studies
Symposium on Disease and Disability in the Middles Ages and Renaissance
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Ruggles Hall, The Newberry Library

Due to space restrictions, registration in advance is required (see
below).

9:30 a.m. Coffee and continental breakfast

10:00 a.m.

Disability in the Middle Ages

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*Call for Papers: Collected Volume of Essays on Early Modern Disability*

Abstract: 500 words (Due Date: April 1, 2010)

Editors: Allison P. Hobgood and David Houston Wood

Accepted abstracts will lead to scholarly essays (c. 5,000-6,000 words) to be included in a proposed book collection tentatively entitled “Disabling the Renaissance: Recovering Early Modern Disability.”

While Renaissance scholarship in the past few decades has been interested in all sorts of new identity histories, too little work has been undertaken on early modern disabled selves as such. Accordingly, we are interested in essay submissions that call attention to how recent conversation about difference in the early modern period has often overlooked or misidentified disability. This volume will present early modern disability studies as a productive theoretical lens that can reanimate existing scholarly dialogue about Renaissance subjectivities even as it motivates more politically invested classroom pedagogies.

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Disability and Ethics through the Life Cycle:
Cases, Controversies, & Finding Common Ground

CALL FOR PAPERS

May 21-22, 2010
Union College, Schenectady, NY

Despite a common interest in facilitating good medical care, bioethicists and members of the disability rights community sometimes differ in their approach to issues arising in the bio-medical settings, especially on such polarizing issues as abortion and physician-assisted suicide. Focusing on these polarizing issues, however, distracts attention from other ethical issues that affect people with disabilities in biomedical contexts. This conference will offer a forum for bioethicists, disability-rights scholars, disability-rights advocates, and other stakeholders with a different focus for discussing these issues by viewing disability from a life -cycle perspective. People confront disability through the life cycle: infancy, childhood, reproductive years, middle age, and old age. At each age they confront situations with ethical dimensions that present them, their families, and their caregivers and biomedical researchers with ethical challenges. This conference is designed to promote interdisciplinary conversations about these less frequently discussed ethical issues.

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Disability History Conference 2010

Disability History: looking forward to a better past?
June 25th - 27th, 2010

University of Central Lancashire
Preston, UK

Plenary Speakers:
Professor Catherine J Kudlick, University of California, Davis Professor Tom Shakespeare, University of Newcastle

Disability history has emerged in recent years as an increasingly popular sub-discipline of historical research, covering social, cultural, medical, practical, gendered, technological and linguistic aspects of the lives of those seen by society as having ‘disabled’ bodies and minds. The Disability History Group are pleased to announce their latest conference. ‘Disability History: looking forward to a better past?’ which promotes the DHG’s goal to advance research into the history of disability. It is hoped the conference will broaden the scope of disability history and deliver fresh and dynamic perspectives on the way disability has been used to legitimate and understand norms, social relations, inequality, and oppression. This includes historical research into individuals, groups and institutions, as well as representations/constructions and perspectives on disability.

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SDS 2010, 22nd Annual Conference Call for Proposals

THEME: DISABILITY IN THE GEO-POLITICAL IMAGINATION

Dates: June 2-5, 2010

Host: Institute on Disabilities, Temple University

Location: Howard Gittis Student Center, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Submission Forms: All proposals must use the SDS CFP submission form available at the 2010 SDS conference site Proposal Deadline: Midnight EST, December 15, 2009.

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The Heller School for Social Policy and Management invites applications for the Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Disability Policy at the rank of associate or full professor. The position carries a tenured appointment where appropriate. This individual will also be appointed as the Director of the newly established Lurie Institute for Disability Policy at the Heller School. The Lurie Institute is set to become a major university-based institute for policy-related research on disability issues across the lifespan. The successful candidate is expected to have extensive research experience, preferably including working collaboratively with colleagues, other academic research centers, legislatures, state agencies and/or provider groups. We seek an established scholar with demonstrated experience in obtaining external funds for research support, interest and/or experience in policy setting at state and national levels, interest in mentoring graduate students, and evidence of excellent teaching. Applicants should have a doctoral degree in the social sciences, public health, medicine, law, or related fields. Candidates with an interest in services, financial support, legislative initiatives or other issues affecting persons with autism and their families are especially welcome.

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An intriguing new article is available for full-text download on SSRN. The article is written by Jane Byeff Korn (Univ. Arizone - Law), and is entited Too Fat.

Here is the Abstract:

No one wants to be fat but many Americans are obese. Although people who are obese are often discriminated against, they have had little or no protection under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). The recently enacted Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (“ADAAA”) promises to make recourse more readily available to people with disabilities who feel they have been discriminated against. Despite the intention of the ADAAA to provide a broad scope of protection, it will provide no more relief to people who are obese than the prior version of the Act. Although we do not know the cause of obesity, we blame the person for being obese and refuse to see this as a disabling condition.

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Call for Papers

Special Issue of Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies
(JLCDS)

Human Conditions: Disability and Life Writing
Guest Editor, G. Thomas Couser

Papers welcome on any aspect of this broad topic. I wish to encourage
breadth across time, across cultures, and across media: thus, “life
writing” should be understood to include non- print media (such as blogs)
and even non- written forms of representation, such as documentary film,
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Call for Papers

Title: World Religions and Disability: Cross-Cultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Edited by: Darla Schumm and Michael Stoltzfus Deadline for abstract submissions: May 1, 2009

Email: dschumm@hollins.eduand mjstoltz@valdosta.edu

The editors of World Religions and Disability: Cross-Cultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives invite contributions for an inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural collection of essays that critically examine how the religions of the world represent, understand, theologize, theorize and respond to disability and/or chronic illness.

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Becky Cox-White and Susanna Flavia Boxall (Cal. State Univ. - Chico) have published an articlein the most recent Journal of Medicine & Philosophy (vol. 33, no. 6) entitled "Redefining Disability: Maleficent, Unjust and Inconsistent." Here is the Abstract:

Disability activists' redefinition of "disability" as a social, rather than a medical, problem attempts to reassign causality. We explicate the untenable implications of this approach and argue this definition is maleficent, unjust, and inconsistent. Thus, redefining disability as a socially caused phenomenon is, from a moral point of view, ill-advised.

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