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Present Difference: The Cultural Production of Disability
Manchester Metropolitan University
in Conjunction with BBC Northwest and the Cultural Disability Studies
Research Network
Wednesday 6th Friday 8th January 2010
This conference seeks to address the contemporary cultural production of
disability within and across local and global contexts. Its focus is
upon representation both in the sense of the production and circulation
of particular narratives, ideas and images of disability and
non-disability, and in the sense of the participation of disabled
cultural practitioners in the production of culture.
We invite proposals from all stakeholders in the mass mediated
production of disability across a variety of themes and from a diversity
of perspectives within this disparate field of enquiry.
Submissions are invited from both disabled and non-disabled media
producers and policy makers, creative practitioners, disability
activists and academics.
Suggested themes include but are not limited to:
policy and practice, television, film, radio, literature, life writing,
journalism, comedy, advertising, new media, social networking, theatre,
art, popular music, animation, gaming and marketing and publicity in the
charity and voluntary sectors.
Topics to include (but are not limited to):
* How do different mediums construct the relationship between
disability and non-disability, human variation and human difference?
* In what ways do and have policy makers responded to the call
for inclusive practices and representations of human variation?
* What is the relationship between genre and the discursive
relations of dis/ability?
* What is the role of the audience in the recognition and
construction of dis/ability?
The conference aims to be as varied and inclusive as possible so
suggested formats include but are not limited to: Roundtables, Forums,
Debates, Panels, Posters, Creative Pieces, DVDs, Websites and Media and
Art projects in progress. Sessions will be timetabled for 1hr 30mins.
Abstracts (max 250 words) and biographical notes (max 150 words) for
individual and/or group papers, panels or alternative formats to be sent
by Friday 10th April 2009 to presentdifference@yahoo.co.uk.
Enquiries to: Dr Lucy Burke, Manchester Metropolitan University,
l.burke@mmu.ac.uk If you are interested in attending the conference,
please contact l.burke@mmu.ac.uk with your contact details and email
address
