The International research unit Disability Studies (iDiS) is directed by Professor Anne Waldschmidt and affiliated with the Chair of Sociology and Politics of Rehabilitation, Disability Studies which is a unit of the Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation at the Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Cologne, Germany
Disability Studies meets Cultural Studies: This conference brings together scholars who are working at the interface of Disability Studies and Cultural Studies. Presentations will be complemented by comments by researchers and graduate students of, among others, sociology, literature, art history and philosophy based at the University of Cologne. More information.
Orientation and theme of the conference
Alter, European Society for Disability Research (AESDR) was founded in 2011 by the Editorial Board of the Journal Alter-European Journal of Disability Research / Revue Européenne de Recherche sur le Handicap as international society with the aim of fostering scholarly and interdisciplinary social sciences and humanities research. A particular emphasis is given on the plurality of scientific approaches and knowledge (theoretical, applied, grounded in the experience of disability) provided by this research area. It is an open intellectual society and welcomes all who have an interest in disability without exception or particular orientation. Established with a focus on Europe, the society welcomes scholars from all parts of the world. Continue reading ‘CFP: First Annual Conference of the Alter. European Society of Disability Research’
The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Max Planck Research Group (Sabine Arnaud), announces two postdoctoral fellowships for one renewable year. Outstanding junior scholars are invited to apply. The fellowships are awarded in conjunction with the research project “The Writing of Deaf-muteness and the Construction of Norm”. Candidates should hold a doctorate at the time the fellowship begins.
Critical Disability Studies 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, United Kingdom
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 will address diverse issues including:
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