A little reminder about the Critical Disability Studies *FREE* Conference *Theorizing Normalcy and the Mundane* 2011
Dates and Venue: Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th September 2011 ~ 10am-4.30pm each day held at Manchester Metropolitan University.
A FREE! conference co-hosted by the Research Institute of Health and Social Change at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), University of Chester, University of Iceland, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto and Sheffield Hallam University.
This two day conference builds upon the first, and hugely successfully, ‘Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane’ conference held in May 2010. It brings together an international group of researchers and calls for papers which will address diverse issues including:
- exploring the cultural and political production of normalcy
- addressing our obsession with reason and rationality
- connecting ableism with other hegemonies including heterosexism, racism and ageism
- analysing the barriers and possibilities of the mundane and extraordinary
- deconstructing new pathologies and ‘abnormalities’
Confirmed keynote speakers include Anat Greenstein (MMU, UK) and Fiona Kumari Campbell (Griffith University, Australia).
Our aim is for this conference to be as inclusive as possible. We welcome activists, undergraduate and postgraduate students, practitioners and academics to join us.
In the spirit of an eco-friendly conference, registered delegates will be sent an e-pack. Details of accommodation near the venue will also be sent to delegates.
As the conference is FREE!, lunch and refreshments will be available for purchase at the University, if you wish. Please let us know if you have any dietary requirements so we can make the restaurant aware of delegate requirements.
- Deadline for paper abstracts: 4th April 2011 [since extended to 22nd May]
- Deadline for attendance: 22nd August 2011
For the sake of ease, we are keeping the original email so please email abstracts and attendance to: normalcy2010@hotmail.com
If you are interested in this you may also be interested in the call for papers the *Critical Autism Seminar Day* at Sheffield Hallam University (18th January 2011: 9.45am-4,30pm) to be followed by the launch of Dan Goodley’s much anticipated new text, Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction (4.30 – 6.00pm, with refreshments).
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