On the DL: Athletes, Athletics, and Disability is the title of a proposed essay collection that will read competitive athletics through a disability studies lens. Given the myriad definitions of “sport” across the globe, On the DL is interested in compiling a wide variety of theoretically-engaged analyses of sporting culture. In addition to…[Read more]

<div>Bodies can be collective, material, medicalized, biological, sexual, queer, trans, normative, political, racial, transnational, ecological, historical, useful, global, affective, gendered, disabled, surveilled, controlled, subjected, transformed, enhanced, engineered, empowered, organized, managed, discursive, aesthetic, translated,…[Read more]

Thursday, 7 January

120. Disability, Contingency, Neoliberalism

3:30–4:45 p.m.

Program arranged by the Forum TC Disability Studies

Presiding: Susan Antebi, Univ. of Toronto

1. “The Biopolitics of Disability,” David Mitchell, George Washington Univ.; Sharon Snyder, George Washington Univ.

2. “Crip Figures: Disability, Austerity, and As…[Read more]

Friday, 8 January

325. Disability and Interdependence

1:45–3:00 p.m.

Program arranged by the Forum TC Disability Studies

Presiding: Elizabeth Bearden, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

1. “Disforming Cure,” Katherine Schaap Williams, New York Univ., Abu Dhabi

2. “‘The Servant . . . Formed Himself into a Sort of Crutch’: Disability, Dependency, an…[Read more]

Saturday, 9 January

619. Queer Crips across Time

3:30–4:45 p.m.

Program arranged by the Forum TC Disability Studies and the Forum TC Sexuality Studies

Presiding: Allison Hobgood, Willamette Univ.

Presiding: Martha Nell Smith, Univ. of Maryland, College Park

Speakers: Cam Awkward-Rich, Stanford Univ.; Simone Chess, Wayne State Univ.; Petr…[Read more]

Panel for the Latin American Studies Association, XXXIV International Congress
New York City, May 27-30, 2016

Title of panel: Disability Studies Pedagogies and the Global South
In celebration of its 50th anniversary, LASA is organizing its annual congress around broad themes of the “evolution of Latin American studies,” the “challenges of cr…[Read more]

Greetings colleagues,

I am writing to ask for your help in completing a brief survey about teaching age studies.  I am looking to find respondents who both:

 teach undergraduates (baccalaureate or associate level) in the American higher education system, and
address the topics of aging, old age, and/or ageism in those undergraduate c…[Read more]

Disability and Interdependence

What are alternatives to the binary of independence/dependence in disability discourse? How might rhetorics of care illuminate and intervene in disability’s perception/representation? 250 word abstract and 1 page CV by 15 March 2015; Elizabeth Bearden (ebearden@wisc.edu).

Note the expansion to include Spain after posting the cfp earlier this year.
Roundtable dialogue about Spanish and Latin American perspectives on disability studies in the humanities. Participants will give brief presentations on disability studies theory and criticism produced in Spain or Latin America in response to local and regional lived…[Read more]

NeMLA 2015, Toronto
Roundtable fostering a dialogue about and with Latin American perspectives on disability studies in the humanities. Participants will give brief presentations on disability studies theory and criticism produced in Latin America in response to local and regional lived realities and cultural productions. Speakers may also…[Read more]

Disability in World Film Contexts [cfp-edited volume]

The edited volume titled ‘Disability in World Film Contexts’ has received initial interest from Yoram Allon of renowned film publisher Wallflower Press (now part of Columbia UP). Contributions are invited in the form of chapters that focus on an individual film or films from a specific nat…[Read more]

Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies – Call for Papers
Special Issue: “Disability and Blood: Blood and the Crips”
Guest Editors: Michael Davidson (UCSD) and Sören Fröhlich (UCSD)

Since the HIV/AIDS blood feuds of the 1990s, scholarship into social and cultural definitions of blood has provided much-needed insights into statis…[Read more]

Dear all,

I’d like to remind everyone of the MLA Convention Access Guidelines, which you can read here:

http://www.mla.org/conv_access_guide

Happy new year and have a great convention!