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.
Conference: Theorizing Normalcy and the Mundane
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:
- 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’
iDiS-Flyer online
Click here to get a short overview about our programme (PDF).
Just published: Edinburgh German Yearbook “Disability in German Literature, Film, and Theater”
Established, commissioned, and edited by the Department of German at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh German Yearbook encourages and disseminates lively and open discussion of themes pertinent to German Studies. No other yearbook covers the entire field while addressing a focused theme in each issue. Volume 4 focuses on disability in German literature, film, and theater.
For further information please refer to the publishers’ announcement.