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Call for Papers, Disabilities Studies Conference, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
By Andrea Shettle, MSW | December 16, 2008
CALL FOR PAPERS
Towards A National Disability Studies Agenda
Disability Studies Conference, UNSW Sydney
June 26-27 2009
The Disability Studies and Research Centre (DSRC) invite offers of papers for presentation at a Disability Studies Conference to be held at the University of New South Wales, from 26-27th June 2009.
Established in 2008, the DSRC is a national inter-disciplinary research centre which promotes the critical social perspective of disability in education and research to maximise Australia’s capacity to ensure an equitable, participatory and accessible society for people with disability. Its forerunner was the Disability Studies and Research Institute (DSaRI). Recent research by DSRC and DSaRI includes disability and human rights, international development, accessible information, financing of disability services, specialist service design and delivery, housing and supported accommodation, bioethics, employment and income-support. The centre is aligned with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Law at UNSW.
The overarching aim of the conference will be to bring together, for the first time, people from the disability studies academia, students and members of the disability community to discuss in the context of the new United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities developments towards a national disability studies agenda. The possibilities, realities and practical challenges of this will be discussed by two keynote speakers and taken up in contributed papers.
We therefore invite the submission of abstracts for papers on current research in the following broad areas:
o Australian engagement in a regional disability studies agenda
o Disability studies research – empowerment and participation
o Emerging themes in disability studies– interests, population groups and disciplines
o Collaborating with government – a whole-of-government approach to disability studies and research
o Other
Submissions are particularly welcome from students and first time presenters. We seek to provide a supportive environment for people making presentations and to be as accessible as possible to all delegates.
Abstracts should be 300 words in length and preferably sent as a Word-document attachment to http://www.hotelnetwork.com.au/conferences/conferences/disability_studies by December 31, 2008.
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