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Autumn 2012 UW Study Abroad in Brazil (Link) REHAB 496 / DIS ST 430 (12 credits) Disability in Limited Resource Environments: Brazil. Application deadline: May 7, 2012. Program directors: Mark Harniss (Rehabilitation Medicine, mharniss@uw.edu); Becky Matter (Center on Technology & Disability Studies, bmatter@uw.edu). This course addresses disability in limited resource environments in an international context. Using Brazil as a cultural, political, and socioeconomic context, students will explore a wide range of issues related to disability in low-middle income countries including prevalence and demographics, measurement, access and barriers to health care and rehabilitation, availability of assistance and support, accessibility of built environments and information technologies, and access and barriers to education and employment. We will address these diverse issues using the twin themes of international human rights and development. Students will engage in both service and research activities. Instruction will be in English.

Topics covered:

• Legislation & advocacy
• Prevalence and demographics, measurement
• Cultural and social understanding of disability - stigma, attitudes
• Access and barriers to health care
• Access and barriers to rehabilitation and assistive technology
• Accessibility of built environments and information technologies
• Access and barriers to education and employment

Summer 2012, ASL 134 Intensive First-Year ASL. 15 credits. Covers first year ASL taught in a length of nine weeks, M-Th, 8:45 am to 1 pm. This course fulfills UW foreign language requirements. For more information:  https://catalyst.uw.edu/workspace/lforshay/10514/53329

Spring 2012, CHID 496H Focus Group: A Cultural Center for the Disability and Deaf Communities: Creating a Vision. 2 credits C/NC, Thursdays, 5-7pm, MGH 085. Through a Comparative History of Ideas focus group, students are planning the opening of a cultural space on the UW Seattle campus that will serve the disability and Deaf communities. Students will form an advisory board, write a mission statement and vision for the Center, and discuss how they want it to function. During class sessions, discussions will address themes including  Disability and Deaf Studies, student activism, and intersections of academia and the Cultural Center. For more information, please contact Ann Luetzow at asuwswdc@uw.edu.

Spring 2012 B H 497A Special Electives: History of Eugenics. Instructor: Joanne Woiak. T/Th 3:00-4:50, Health Sciences Building. This Bioethics & Humanities course also counts for Disability Studies and CHID requirements.

Spring 2012 LAW H 530 Disability Law. Instructor: Christy Thompson Ibrahim. Tues 3:30-6:40. All graduate students are welcome.

Spring 2012 ANTHR 479A The Anthropology of Disability. Instructor: Heather Clark. M/W 8:30-10:20.

Spring 2012 Class, 3 credits, Soc W 576 Empowerment Practice with Persons with Disabilities. Fridays 9:30-12:20. Add codes can be made available upon request. Contact instructor, Jerry Kessinger jerryk@uw.edu.

Winter 2012 LSJ 491 A Topics in Rights: Disability and Citizenship: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Instructor: Joanne Woiak. T/Th 1:30-3:20.

Summer 2011 Integrated Dance Summer Intensive 2011. Hosted in the Dance Program at the University of Washington, Seattle. Now open for registration. Registration: http://faculty.washington.edu/kochj/id/idsiindex.html. Open five-day intensive, Aug. 15-19: Offering integrated technique class, composition/repertory, community jam and guest presentations. Open to participants of all types and levels of dance training, age range 16 and older. Roundtable for artists and educators, Aug. 20-21: intended for experienced artists and educators with a particular interest in educational and choreographic processes in mixed-ability groups. (Participation by application and selection). Please note, this is an independent course hosted by the UW Dance Program. You do not need to be a registered student at the UW to take part. Contact instructor and facilitator Jurg Koch, kochj@uw.edu.

Spring 2011 CHID Focus Group: TITLE: Kripping Culture: Disability Identity and Representation in Contemporary Media Time: Spring Quarter, Wednesdays 3:30-5:30pm. 2 credits (C/NC). Where: Mary Gates 284 Contact: Monica Olsson (mmolsson@gmail.com), Ann Luetzow (ann.luetzow@gmail.com) This focus group will explore representations of disability in contemporary media, including blogs, facebook, youtube, film, and television. We will investigate media narratives of varying disability experiences including body image, race, class, gender, disability culture, and sexuality.

Funding Opportunities, Internships, and Graduate Programs

Online BA in Disability Studies, City University of New York. Now accepting applications for the fall of 2012. The first of its kind in the country, the online BA in the CUNY School of Professional Studies offers six required courses, including Disability and Society, Disability and Embodiment, Disability Narratives, Disability in History, and Disability Law and Policy.  Students then choose from four concentrations, one of which is Interdisciplinary Disability Studies. Course descriptions can be found here: http://online.sps.cuny.edu/program/disability.aspx

Master's Degree Program, The University at Buffalo Center for Disability Studies (http://disabilitystudies.buffalo.edu/index.html). We are excited to announce a new formal concentration in disability studies at the level of the master's degree.  "Master of Arts (M.A.) in Humanities-Interdisciplinary, with a formal Concentration in Disability Studies." A unique two-year Interdisciplinary Masters Degree in the Humanities with a formal concentration in Disability Studies at the University at Buffalo. Our interdisciplinary program’s core and elective courses come mostly from disciplines within the Humanities and Social Sciences. We especially encourage those students interested in taking an historical approach to the study of disability to apply to our program. In the second year, the Masters program offers ample opportunities for students to pursue independent study and internships. We are now accepting applications for the 2012-2013 academic year. Please direct any queries to David Gerber (dagerber@buffalo.edu) or to Mike Rembis (marembis@buffalo.edu).

M.Sc. in Disability Studies at Trinity College Dublin is now taking applications for the 2012 intake. You can check our video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arVgG3-1H3g&feature=channel_video_title. For more information on the course, please visit our website at www.tcd.ie/niid/master_dis_study.php or contact Ms. Ailish Kennedy Ph: +353 1 896 3885 or akenned@tcd.ie. This innovative M.Sc. in Disability Studies provides a common ground for the inter-disciplinary study of disability. This M.Sc. is likely to comprise a student body coming from the private and public sectors including disability service providers in management positions; disability activists and members of advocacy organisations; policy makers; graduates from the Social Sciences, Education, Political Sciences, Humanities, Law, and Applied Health Sciences with a strong interest in the disability field. The programme provides students with a deep understanding of disability from social, historical, cultural, economic and political perspectives. Graduates of the M.Sc. will be equipped with the knowledge, analytical skills and insight to translate rights into reality in the field of disability both nationally and internationally. The programme is run by the National Institute for Intellectual Disability in the School of Social Work and Social Policy at Trinity College Dublin. Disciplines within Trinity contributing to the teaching and management of the M.Sc. include Nursing and Midwifery, Law, Occupational Therapy, Religions and Theology and Economics. The course includes frequent input from leading scholars in the field of Disability Studies nationally and internationally and hosts seminars and guest lectures offered by visiting academics.

Internships Summer 2012 (Link) Sins Invalid Cultural and Political Programs Internships for Summer 2012. *Are you a ROCKSTAR?* *Do you want to be a part of a team that creates GROUND BREAKING WORK?* *Then apply for an internship with Sins Invalid!* *Sins Invalid *is a San Francisco/Bay Area based performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists as members of communities who have been historically marginalized.  Our performance work explores the themes of sexuality, embodiment and the disabled body.  Conceived and led by disabled people of color, we develop and present cutting-edge work where normative paradigms of “normal” and “sexy” are challenged, offering instead a vision of beauty and sexuality inclusive of all individuals and communities.
We are seeking interns who know they have skills to contribute, are passionate about social justice, understand the importance of cultural work as a means of making change, and are excited about putting their beliefs into practice! The Cultural and Political Programs Internship will give you hands-on experience with community relations and outreach, organizational development and fundraising.

*Requirements*:
  - A minimum commitment of 3 days per week, from 1 – 6pm; shift  days/times are negotiable for a minimum of 3 months.
  - Proficiency with Microsoft Office programs; our hope is that everyone has their own laptop/computer to work on.
  - A strong attention to detail and ability to work independently.
  - An interest in disability justice, racial justice and disrupting heteronormativity.
  - If you are in school, either at a junior or senior level in college or the equivalent in life experience.
  - Professional behavior at the worksite.

*Benefits*:
  - Opportunities to build relationships with people from a wide variety of justice and performance related fields.
  - Opportunities to learn deeply about the intersections of disability, race, gender and sexuality.
  - Experience in non-profit administration.
  - Opportunities to engage with Disability justice praxis.

*To apply*, please send an email to info@sinsinvalid.org.  We will send you an intern application to be returned to us along with a current resume.
*Our Summer 2012 projects open for intern involvement include:*

*Film Distribution Planning*: We are completing a 41-minute film that reflects our one-of-a-kind performance work, weaving interviews of artists and co-founders alongside unreleased performance footage to serve as an entryway into the absurdly taboo topic of sexuality and disability.  We will be premiering the film in Fall 2012 and are currently developing a distribution strategy that includes self-distribution, partnering with a non-exclusive distributor and screening at film festivals.

*Webstreaming a Sins Invalid Performance*: Many *Sins Invalid *community members who have connected with us through our web presence or our education work around the country are unable to attend a live *Sins Invalid*event.  Additionally, due to the isolation of ableism, even local community members may face difficulties attending a live performance.  In response to these challenges, we will offer our 2009 performance to be viewed on-line 24 hours/day during an allotted time.

*Community Workshops*: We organize performance workshops for community members with and without disabilities.  In the past, these workshops have included poetry, dance, storytelling, erotic writing, dance, and vocalization workshops.

*Movement Building*: Through our invite-only series of “MAKING CONNECTIONS: Conversations Within and Between Communities,” we bring together political artists, cultural activists, and movement-building allies involved with radical social justice projects to cross-pollinate our politically and creatively informed works.

Internships (Link) NCIL Policy Internship Program. The National Council on Independent Living (NCIL) is announcing 2 internship positions at our headquarters in Washington, DC. The NCIL Policy Internship Program is open to students and individuals pursuing a career in a field relevant to NCIL interests, particularly Independent Living and disability advocacy. Although not a requirement, preference shall be given to individuals with disabilities. This program will provide real Washington policy experience to participants at a highly respected national organization. The program includes 2 internships, with positions lasting from January 15th – May 15th, and September 1st – December 15th. Interns are required to work 10-15 hours each week based out of NCIL headquarters in Washington, DC; actual schedule and hours to be negotiated with the Executive Director. Although internships are unpaid, NCIL will cover the cost of all job-related travel to meetings, and assist interns with post-graduation job placement at related organizations. NCIL will also assist students seeking academic credit if the opportunity exists at their school. Successful candidates completing the internship program will gain valuable policy experience in Washington, and will be ideal candidates for open positions at NCIL, CILs, and other advocacy organizations across the country. To Apply: Please email a cover letter, resume, and letter of recommendation to Austin Walker at austin@ncil.org.

Disability History Association Graduate Student Scholarship. As part of our commitment to promoting the work of disability historians, DHA is proud to announce this year’s graduate student scholarship to attend professional academic conferences. This award is not restricted by the geographic location or type of professional academic conference. The fellowship committee will award either 2 applicants $250US or one applicant $500US, depending on strength of proposals and need. The Association will cover expenses to convert currencies if necessary. To apply for this scholarship applicants should provide a one-page (roughly 250- word) cover letter outlining when, where, and what kind of conference will be attended. Applicants should clearly explain their reason for wanting to attend the conference and what benefits are anticipated by this experience. For example, a candidate may have been accepted to present a paper or may want to interview for jobs at the conference; another may want to do both or may want to learn more about subjects presented that relate to his/her own work. For more information on the scholarship please contact Susan Burch at sburch@middlebury.edu

Fellowship (Link) Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the University of Illinois at Chicago Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD). Submissions accepted until position filled. Applicants must have received their doctoral degree within the last four years in any of the following disciplines: Disability Studies, Public Health, Public Policy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, or a related field with relevant experience. Applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents. Submit documentation via email to Mary Kay Rizzolo, Associate Director, Dept. of Disability and Human Development (mrizzo3@uic.edu).

Fellowship (Link)Mercatus Center MA Fellowship at George Mason University.The Mercatus Masters Fellowship is a competitive program for students who are interested in pursuing an advanced degree in applied economics in preparation for a career in public policy. The fellowship, which includes full tuition and a generous stipend, is aimed at students with interested in advanced training in economics, but who do not anticipate a career in academia.

Fellowship (Link) Post-Doctoral Health Services Research Fellowships. Positions begin June-Sept. 2011. Institute for Healthcare Studies and the Dept. of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.

Calls for Papers

Tool for searching current information about health, science, and medicine funding opportunities, conferences, CFPs: Research Raven (Link).

Conference (Link) Title: Society for Disability Studies: Collaborations, Cultures, and Communities. Denver, Colorado, June 20-23, 2011. Early bird registration until May 11. Program now available here. For further information contact Michael Rembis and/or Allison Carey, co-chairs of the SDS 2012 program committee at marembis@buffalo.edu and accare@ship.edu.

Conference (Word document) (Link) Title: Disability and the Victorians: Confronting Legacies. Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, Leeds Trinity University College 30th July-1st August 2012. Proposal and inquiries to Dr. Karen Sayer, k.sayer@leedstrinity.ac.uk.

Book *New Voices: Students Sharing Their Experiences with Disabilities* Edited by Leila Monaghan, Alison Quaggin and Michelle Jarman. Deadline for submissions: May 15, 2012. One of the most important aspects of teaching Disability Studies is how we empower our students with disabilities or those with close connections to people with disabilities to speak about their experiences in thoughtful and reflective ways.  This is a call for short chapters from students (traditional and non-traditional) writing about their own experiences with
disabilities including how their views have been changed by Disability Studies scholarship.  We are looking for a diverse range of papers
reflecting all kinds of disabilities from urban, suburban and rural perspectives.  Topics will include (but are not limited to) living with physical, sensory and mental disabilities; disabilities and the family; and disabilities at school and in workplace including the impact of
disabilities on military members and their families; and the impact of technology on the lives of people with disabilities.  Papers should be
written in a clear, accessible and personal style.  The book is intended to for use in introductory Disability Studies classes to fill the gap between single individual memoirs and formal textbooks.
If you are a student interested in participating or have a student paper you wish to suggest for submission, please drop a note to Leila at
Leila.Monaghan@gmail.com as soon as possible.  Papers should be 5-15 pages. Papers are due May 15, 2012 at Leila.Monaghan@gmail.com but we are happy to comment on draft versions or abstracts of papers. We will notify participants of official acceptance some time in June.

Journal (Link). Title: Special Issue of Disability Studies Quarterly “Growing Disability Studies: Academic (Dis)Locations, (Anti)Disciplinary Positions, and Institutional Collaboration”, Guest Edited by Michelle Jarman and Alison Kafer. Deadline: May 15, 2012. This special issue invites collaborative essays exploring the most promising, compelling and even transgressive ways of growing the field. We see this as a timely and important topic because while disability studies is expanding in terms of degree programs, courses, and general recognition, it is still located in isolated or marginalized spaces in many university settings. In Cultural Locations of Disability, Sharon Snyder and David Mitchell suggest that institutionalizing disability studies “comes fraught with difficulties in that the field situates itself as a force of destabilization” (192). Because disability studies has grown out of disability rights and activism, this destabilizing quality seems integral to the field itself. In this spirit, the editors welcome contributions that address historical, existing, and potential tensions between carving out institutional support and encouraging transgressive perspectives, methodologies, and research. The editors are specifically seeking collaborative essays that include multiple perspectives from different locations and roles. For example, we welcome the work of scholars, teachers, students, activists, artists, and others who see themselves as participants in the field, both within and outside university settings. Similarly, we encourage collaborations across institutional types, from research universities to liberal arts colleges and beyond. We hope this collaborative approach will encourage conversations across differing curricular structures, allowing contributors to flesh out new and creative ideas for future developments. We are particularly interested in pieces that think broadly about the internal and external forces shaping disability studies, highlighting key themes and dynamics, rather than isolated descriptions of individual programs.

 The co-editors invite proposals on an array of topics including (but not limited to) the following:

• Strategies for developing and supporting institutional and non-institutional (activist, artistic, community) partnerships to increase visibility and knowledge of the field.
• Challenges and unique potential of programs located within/near applied health fields including University Centers of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDDs) in the U.S. and similar federally funded/institute structures globally.
• Women’s/gender/sexuality studies, race and ethnic studies, queer studies, and other area studies as models and partners for developing disability studies.
• Using curriculum across disciplines to expand DS.
• Using disciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and antidisciplinary positions to develop DS as a destabilizing and transgressive force. 
• Examples of student activism and student leadership in (re)shaping disability studies.
• Growing disability studies underground – positioning the field without programs.
• Importance of defining or resisting a canon of DS literature.
• Processes for developing strong connections between undergraduate and graduate programs (nationally and internationally).
• Activist perspectives on the ground: how could the field better partner and promote social and political activism? How could community activists be better supported by DS scholars in academic environments?
• Balancing the field’s interrogation of normalization in an academic environment increasingly driven by assessment.

Please email a one-page proposal to Michelle Jarman (mjarman@uwyo.edu) and Alison Kafer (kafera@southwestern.edu) by May 15, 2012. Finalists will be notified by June 25, 2012, and full manuscripts will be due on February 1, 2013.

Conference (Link) Minnesota Symposium on Disability Studies, University of Minnesota, July 27-28, 2012. Call for Papers: Perspectives: Past, Present and Future of Disability Studies. Deadline: May 30, 2012. The disability community is at a crossroads: many historic victories have been made for rights and inclusion while the emergence of Disability Studies as a field has expanded boundaries of knowledge, understanding and experience. Yet, new demands and challenges at many crossroads threaten the advances made by the disability community and force us to reconsider our own assumptions and adapt to emerging issues.  This year’s Disability Studies Symposium will focus on the history and future of disability rights under the theme, “Perspectives: Past, Present and Future of Disability Studies.” This symposium will bring together scholars and professionals working in disability studies or disability-related fields for a weekend of shared research, community and dynamic interdisciplinary discussion.

Paper Submissions: Successful submissions for papers will reflect a nuanced, critical understanding of: disability rights as an evolving concept, the implications of disability studies on fields of practice over time, and the changing influences people with disabilities have on society.  Authors may submit scholarly articles or narratives/stories, but all submissions must demonstrate thoughtful analysis and high quality scholarship. Please submit a 250-word abstract of your paper to be considered. Authors of selected abstracts will be asked to submit an 8-page (double-spaced) version or summary of their full papers.

Dates and Location: The Minnesota Symposium on Disability Studies will take place at the University of Minnesota's Minneapolis campus on July 27-28th. This symposium is the result of collaboration between the Interdisciplinary Graduate Group in Disability Studies, the School of Music, Disability Services and the Office for Equity and Diversity at the University of Minnesota. Rooms at the University Days Inn will be reserved for symposium participants at the very reasonable conference rate of $75 but participants will have to cover the full cost of lodging.  The hotel provides breakfast and has a free local shuttle service. Thanks to the generosity of The Office of Graduate Education, there will be no registration fee for participants at the symposium and most additional meals will be provided. Updates about the symposium will be posted at: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gara0030/iggds/. Abstracts are due by May 30, 2012 and should be sent as an attachment to both Joanna O’Connell (oconn001@umn.edu) and Rachel Garaghty (gara0030@umn.edu).  Questions may be addressed to either of the above.

Conference (Link) DISABILITY & POPULAR CULTURE. Midwest Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association (MPCA)
2012 Conference, October 12-14, 2012, Columbus, Ohio, Renaissance Columbus Downtown Hotel. Deadline: May 31, 2012
http://mpcaaca.org/ ***Please note: deadline has been extended*** The Disability & Popular Culture area of the MPCA invites proposals (or abstracts) for papers, panels, and presentations on any aspect of the intersection of disability and popular culture.  All topics, approaches, and perspectives related to disability and popular culture are welcome.  Papers may address theoretical, methodological, empirical, practical, or pedagogical concerns.  Interdisciplinary perspectives are encouraged, as are discussions of new directions in disability studies and popular culture studies. The conference CFP is available at http://mpcaaca.org/columbus-2012/2012-cfp.  General conference information is available at http://mpcaaca.org/conference.
Proposals and inquiries should be sent by e-mail to the Disability & Popular Culture area chair, Asim Ali, at aali@umd.edu.  Proposals/abstracts should be 200-300 words in length.  Along with the proposal, please include in your submission the following information for each author/presenter:
1. author’s name and institutional affiliation (e.g. department and university)
2. title of paper/presentation
3. postal address
4. email address
5. whether a TV & DVD player is needed for the presentation (this is the only available audiovisual equipment)

National Symposium on Neurodiversity at Syracuse University: Symposium 2012. Deadline for proposals: June 1, 2012. Call for Proposals. The National Symposium on Neurodiversity is a yearly conference at Syracuse University that seeks to promote academic inquiry into neurodiversity as a concept and social movement.  The 2012 conference will take place in October 2012 at Syracuse University.  More details about specific dates and locations will be forthcoming. Proposal deadline: June 1, 2012.  Please submit all proposals to neurodiversitysymposium@gmail.com. If you need any assistance creating or submitting a proposal, please contact Rachael Zubal-Ruggieri at the Center on Human Policy, Law, and Disability Studies, at razubal@syr.edu. Types of presentations wanted: We are interested in presentations that deal with issues currently being explored within the neurodiversity community.  While this conference will focus largely on issues affecting the Autistic community, individuals are welcome to present on topics that investigate a broader application of neurodiversity as a framework. In an effort to create an environment that is as universally accessible and egalitarian as possible, we do not require individuals submitting proposals to be associated with a college or university. Participants do not have to identify as disabled/having a disability or as part of a neurological minority to present, although we highly encourage those who identify as members of these groups to submit presentations.  We welcome presentations by individuals with a wide variety of educational backgrounds. Please note: Although this conference is intended to promote critical inquiry into the current state and future of the neurodiversity movement, we are not interested in presentations that reinforce stereotypes about neurodiversity or individuals who identify as neurological minorities.  The intended audience of this conference is individuals who identify as disabled or members of a neurological minority, and their neurotypical and/or nondisabled allies.  Nondisabled parents and medical or service professionals are welcome to attend, as allies.

Structure: The Symposium will take place over a period of one or two days, and will include opening and closing keynote presentations by invited speakers, and up to 8 presentation sessions chosen from the proposals submitted.  Each of these presentation sessions will be followed by a discussion of up to 1 hour in length.  There will also be space and time designated for participants who wish to create their own roundtables/discussion groups.
Other events at the Symposium may include: exhibitions of neurodiversity-associated organizations; musical and non-musical performances; and an award ceremony honoring individuals helping to advance neurodiversity and the neurodiversity movement in academia, the service-provider realm, and greater society.  (Details are not finalized, and may be subject to change.)
Topics of interest:
Identity
• Autism, gender, sexuality, and sexual identity
• Neurodiversity in disability communities beyond the Autistic community
• Applying current understandings of disability rights, theory, and community to the autism & Autistic communities, and to our understanding of neurodiversity
• Mental health, psychiatric disability labels, and neurodiversity
Advocacy/Rights Issues
• Independent and interdependent living: developing alternatives to state-supported service models
• Technology, advocacy, communication, and neurodiversity
Neurodiversity in Different Settings
• Neurodiversity and popular culture
• Rhetoric used in conversations about autism and/or neurodiversity
• Neurodiversity in higher education
• Neurodiversity in the PreK-12 school system
Note: We may consider robust proposals for presentation topics that fall outside of those listed above.
Accommodations: We are committed to universal design, and will do our best to accommodate any needs you may have.  In order to make sure we can do so effectively, contact Rachael Zubal-Ruggieri (razubal@syr.edu) with access needs as early as possible.
Travel: Due to budget constraints, we are unfortunately not able to provide funding for travel to this year's Symposium. If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at: neurodiversitysymposium@gmail.com

Journal (Link) Title: Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies invites submissions for a special issue on reproductive technologies and reproductive justice. Deadline: June 15, 2012. In commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade and the legacies of that decision, we welcome scholarly and creative works that analyze the contested terrains of reproduction in local, national, or transnational contexts.  We are especially interested in the intersections between varied technologies to regulate, manage, or facilitate reproduction (e.g.
abortion, contraception, surrogacy, population control, reproductive health, adoption), and claims for reproductive justice.  We encourage submissions that conceptualize reproductive issues in broad terms, and which further the journal?s commitment to scholarship on women of color, third world and transnational women?s movements, and gender and race. An inter- and multidisciplinary journal, Frontiers welcomes submissions of creative works such as artwork, fiction, and poetry, as well as scholarly papers.  Works must be original, and not published or under consideration for publication elsewhere.  For submission guidelines, please consult the websites sponsored by the University of Nebraska Press and Arizona State University, where Frontiers is currently housed:
http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Frontiers,673226.aspx
http://www.asu.edu/clas/asuhistory2/frontiers/
All special issue submissions and questions should be directed to frontiers@osu.edu.  The guest editor for this special issue, Mytheli Sreenivas, and the new editors of Frontiers, Guisela Latorre and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu also can be reached at the following address:
      Editors of Frontiers
      Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
      Ohio State University
      286 University Hall
      230 North Oval Mall
      Columbus, OH 43210
Submission Date for Special Issue:  June 15, 2012 All other submissions, not related to the Special Issue, should be directed to Arizona State University before May 11, 2012. After May 12, 2012, all submissions should be sent to Ohio State University.

Journal (Link). Title: Improving Feminist Philosophy and Theory by Taking Account of Disability. Guest editor: Shelley Tremain. Deadline: Sept. 1, 2012.  A growing body of literature demonstrates that disabled people confront poverty, discrimination in employment and housing, sexual violence, limited educational opportunities, incarceration, and social isolation to a far greater extent than their non-disabled counterparts and furthermore that disabled women experience the impact of these disabling social and political phenomena even more severely than do disabled men.  Although feminism is purported to be a social, political, and cultural movement that represents all women, disabled feminists have long argued that the concerns, political struggles, and socio-cultural issues that directly affect disabled women (and disabled people more generally) remain marginalized, and often ignored, within mainstream feminist movements. Feminist theorists and researchers in the university produce and reproduce this marginalization and exclusion through a variety of mechanisms, one of which is their use of the apparently intransigent conceptual schema and theoretical frameworks of “gender, race, and sexuality” or “gender, race, and class.”  In the terms of these conceptions and frameworks, disability is naturalized, rather than represented as a relation of social power in which everyone ─ disabled and non-disabled ─ is implicated: each disabled person is perceived to embody a particular disability, while non-disabled people are taken for granted as representatives of the universal human, the prototype from which disabled people depart.  That disabled (and non-disabled) feminist philosophers and theorists of disability have few venues in which to present and publish their work, as well as fewer opportunities for employment in the university, are among the consequences of these marginalizing and exclusionary frameworks and schema. Consider the following.  Job postings in philosophy do not identify disability as a hegemonic category or form of identity and subjecting power intertwined and on a par with gender, race, sexuality, and class and hence similarly appropriate for philosophical specialization.  In 2011-2012, none of the respective annual conference programs of the three divisions of the national philosophical association in the US (with a combined international membership of more than 10,000) included an invited symposium, refereed session, or even a single refereed paper on disability. Furthermore, the leading journal in feminist philosophy has not published an issue devoted to disability and disabled women in a decade, publishing only a handful of articles on disability in the interim. In addition, the flagship journal of the largest women’s studies association in the US has not published an issue on disability and disabled women in the last decade.  Finally, the editorial boards of academic feminist journals seldom include specialists in disability studies, with the consequence that the work of feminist philosophers/theorists of disability is oftentimes reviewed and adjudicated by (non-disabled) feminists who have a limited, even conventional, medicalized, understanding of the epistemological, ontological, ethical, and political implications of, and phenomena surrounding, disability.  
 
This special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ) ─ the first and foremost journal in disability studies internationally ─ will bring attention to new work in feminist philosophy of disability and feminist disability theory.  The central aim of the issue is to elevate and advance the current status of feminist philosophy of disability/feminist disability theory in feminist and non-feminist academic discourses and, in doing so, challenge the way in which heretofore feminist philosophy and theory have been conceptualized and (re)produced. Submissions may take any philosophical or theoretical approach to disability that is grounded in feminist political values and goals (broadly construed).  The guest editor especially encourages submissions from feminist philosophers and theorists of disability living outside of North America and the global North.  Among the topics that might be addressed in submissions are these:   
* The conceptual and material costs of limiting feminist theory and analyses to the gender, race, and sexuality matrix and the gender, race, and class matrix
* Gender, race, and sexuality/class matrices and schema as epistemologies of ignorance
* Ableist language and philosophy of language/feminist philosophy of language
* Disabled people (in general) and disabled women (in particular) as knowers and holders of epistemically privileged perspectives and standpoints
* Disability and ableism in mainstream and feminist bioethics
* Ageism and sizeism as forms of ableism and disability
* Transnational disability and the globalization of philosophical ableism
* Disabling classifications of intelligence, race, color, impairment, morphology, sex, sexuality, and gender in modern science and philosophy of science and postcolonial critiques of these
* Race, disability, normality, and “racism against the abnormal”
* Disability, representations of beauty, purity, wholeness, and conceptions of ugliness, pollution, incompleteness in (feminist) aesthetics and philosophy of art
* Disability and/in the history of philosophy and the disabling narrative of western philosophy’s
self-conception
* Disabled feminists at the front of the classroom
* Ableist privilege in/and feminist theory and philosophy
* Philosophy of education, disability, and the ethics and politics of the (in)accessible feminist classroom/conference
* The ethics and politics of “passing” as non-disabled within and beyond the university
* Elaborations and critiques of the ethics of care as an ethic for disabled people
* Feminist accounts and critiques of disability and distributive justice
* Disabled people as cyborgs in/up against feminist science and technology studies
Submissions should be no more than 8,000 words in length, inclusive of notes and bibliography, and should be prepared for anonymous peer review, with no identifying elements in the text or reference material.  Submissions and all inquiries about the issue should be sent to Shelley Tremain at: s.tremain@yahoo.ca with the subject line “DSQ  FEMDIS”.   DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: September 1, 2012.

Book (Link) Title: The Male Body in Medicine and Literature. Deadline: Dec. 1, 2012. Following the success of the recent collection The Female Body in Medicine and Literature (LUP 2011) Liverpool University Press have commissioned a companion volume entitled The Male Body in Medicine and Literature. This new collection will provide interdisciplinary essays that will explore the complex intersections between literature and the medical treatment of the male body. We wish to consider the wider cultural ramifications of the representation of the male body, health, sickness, masculinity and ‘manhood’ in order to further our understanding of gender studies, gender politics, science, medicine and literature.
The purpose of this book will be to survey the complex relations between literature and the medical treatment and representation of the male body from 1600 to the present day and we are seeking essays which offer a range of methodologies that will be interdisciplinary in their discussion of medicine of the male body, the cultural representation of male corporeality in sickness and in health, and the wider cultural ramifications of male health, its intersections with masculinity and manhood. We expect the essays to draw on a wide range of topics that have been informed by cross-pollinating disciplines including literature, history of medicine, gender studies and gay fiction. This collection will offer a major new analysis of the medical treatment and cultural representations of the healthy and sick male body from the early modern period to the present. This will be one of the first single-volume books to concentrate on the links between literature and medicine in their shared dedication to understanding the male body. The healthy male body has a complex relationship with ideas of masculinity, manhood and male power; plus, the health and strength of the male body is linked to ideas of nation at times of war and at times of peace; this book will seek to address these issues and more.
Essays might cover, but are not limited to, the following topics:
Male hysteria
Male consumptives
HIV/AIDS
War, conflict and the male body
Virility, fertility and impotence
Male nursing
The working class male body and medical experimentation
Urology
Disability
Mental health and the male body
Sexually transmitted diseases and the male body
Please submit articles for consideration between 5000 – 7000 words to Greta Depledge (depledgeg@aol.com) and
Andrew Mangham (a.s.mangham@reading.ac.uk) by 1st December 2012.  Contributors should follow LUP’s house style, details of which can be found on their website: http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/howtopublish.asp

Journal (Link) Title: Special Issue on New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies. Deadline: Aug. 15, 2013. Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy is seeking new work for a special issue on disability with the general theme of New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies. In 2001 Hypatia published its first special issue on feminist philosophy and disability. Since that time, there has been a great deal of disability scholarship in feminist and queer theory. A new special issue provides the opportunity to consider interventions, innovations,
and transformations in feminist theory occasioned by theories and concepts that animate feminist disability studies, disability studies, queer disability studies/crip theory. Within philosophy, much of the discussion of disability has occurred in the areas of bioethics, ethics of care, and social and political philosophy. This work remains crucial for furthering philosophical understanding of disability. In addition to these areas of philosophy, this special issue seeks to provide a space for new feminist philosophical analyses of disability, as well as new feminist, queer, and feminist queer crip conversations between scholarship on disability in ethics and social and political philosophy and scholarship on disability in epistemology, science studies, environmental philosophy, ecofeminism, queer ecology, aesthetics, critical race theory, metaphysics, phenomenology, and queer theory.

Papers on any topic pertaining to feminist or feminist queer crip analyses of disability are welcome, including (but not limited to) the following:
-Disability and Phenomenology, Disability and epistemologies of ignorance, Disability, gender, race, class, and sexuality, Disability, national identity, and nationalism, Disability and/as “assemblage”, Disability and the question of “the animal”, Disability and posthumanism, Disability, ethics, and politics, Disability and globalization, Access, accommodation, quality of life, Bodies and borders, Able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Disability and environmentalism, ecology, ecofeminism, and/or queer ecology, Disability, feminist materialism, and “agential realism”,  The relationship between impairment and disability identity, Illness, disease, impairment, bodily limitation, pain, failure, Disability and the meaning and/or experience of sex and gender, transgender, and intersex, Disability and orientation/ reorientation/ disorientation of understandings of time and space, Disability, feminist materialism, and “agential realism”, Disability and critical analyses of science, scientific knowledge, nature, and human nature, Feminist/queer/crip perspectives on the Occupy Movement and other global movements for economic, environmental, social, and political justice, The meaning of art and aesthetic concepts through the lens of disability,  Rethinking the canon of western philosophy through the lens of feminist disability studies. Papers should be no more than 8000 words, inclusive of notes and bibliography, prepared for anonymous review, and accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words. For details please see Hypatia's submission guidelines http://depts.washington.edu/hypatia/submission_guidelines.html
Please submit your paper to manuscript central (Wiley-Blackwell) website: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hypa.
When you submit, make sure to select “Disability” as your manuscript type, and also send an email to the guest editor, Kim Q. Hall: hallki@appstate.edu, indicating the title of the paper you have submitted.

Past Events

Workshop (Link) Title: Sexability. When: Wed. Nov. 17, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm. Where: Johnson Hall, Room 111. Sexability is a workshop on sex and disability presented by the local business Babeland, which specializes in providing honest, fun, sex-positive education. Presented by ASUW GBLT Commission and ASUW Student Disability Commission.

Public Talk (Link) Title: The New ADA and Its Impacts on Universities. When: Tues. Nov. 30, 2:00-3:00. Where: Parrington Hall Commons Room 308. In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Don Brandon, project director of the Northwest Disability Business Technical Assistance Center, will address the multitude of changes to the law since its enactment and the effects of the law on higher education. Presented by the ASUW Student Disability Commission.

Disability Studies Brownbag discussion. When: Wed., Dec. 1, 12:30pm – 1:30pm. Where: Savery 408. Speakers: Dennis Lang and Anjali Truitt. Topic: Claiming Impairment.

Community Event (pdf file) Title: Have Your Say - A Community Forum on Independent Living Design. When: Mon. Dec. 6, 4:00-6:00. Where: Parrington Hall Room 308, University of Washington. Ph.D. student Rinkle Shah (rinkleshah@gmail.com).

Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, "Arts-Based Research." Jan. 4, 4:00-5:30 pm. UW Bothell, Building UW1, Room 280.

Brownbag talk Title: Invisible Disabilities and Medicalization as Legitimation, Laura Back, Ph.D. student, Wed. Jan. 26, 12:00-1:30pm, Savery 408.

Lectures, films, and exhibit (Link) (Flyer pdf) Unspeakable: Disability History, Identity, and Rights. Jan 25 - Mar 17. This series of films and lectures sponsored by the Disability Studies Program and the Student Disability Commission is presented in conjunction with "The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic" exhibit at UW Odegaard Library, 2nd Floor. Online exhibit website (requires Adobe Flash Player). When Willard Psychiatric Center in upstate New York closed in 1995, workers found hundreds of suitcases in the attic of an abandoned building. The suitcases and their contents bear witness to the rich, complex lives of their owners prior to being committed to Willard.

Lecture (Link) Title: Resisting Shame, Making Our Bodies Home, Eli Clare, writer and activist, Thurs. Jan. 27, 2:30-4:30, Parrington 309. Sponsored and organized by ASUW Student Disability Commission, GBLT Commission, Women's Action Commission, DS Program.

Lecture (Link) Title: Yearning for Carrie Buck, Eli Clare, Fri. Jan. 28, 6-8pm, Odegaard 220. Sponsored and organized by ASUW Student Disability Commission and DS Program (Unspeakable series).

Dance performance: A Collaborative Performance Response to the Willard Suitcase Exhibition. Tues. Feb. 8, 3.30-4:20pm. Venue: Meany 267.

Geoff Reaume (York University) LECTURE Thurs. Feb. 10, 6:00pm, Odegaard Library 220, "Memorializing Mad People’s History: Preserving Our Past through Archives and Activism."

Brownbag talk Title: AccessSTEM in Higher Education," Noah Siedel, Disability Studies major, Fri. Feb. 18, 12:00-1:30pm, Savery 408.

Licia Carlson (Providence College) LECTURE: "Gender, Disability, and the Dynamics of Institutionalization." Mon. Mar. 7. 6-7:30pm, Odegaard 220.

Brown bag talk at Department of History: Jeff Brune (Gallaudet University) "What Every Historian Should Know about Disability History (and What They Lose by Ignoring the Field)." Mon. Feb. 28, 12:00-1:00pm, Smith 203E.

Jeff Brune (Gallaudet University) LECTURE "Blind Like Me: John Howard Griffin, Disability, and the Fluidity of Identity in Modern America." Tues. Mar. 1, 6-7:30pm. Odegaard 220.

Joanne Woiak (UW Disability Studies) LECTURE: "Voices from the Washington Archives: Eugenics and Forced Sterilization in State Institutions." Tues. Mar. 15, 6:00-7:30pm, Odegaard 220.  Series web site http://uwdisability.wordpress.com/

Disability Studies Program brownbag talk. When: Fri. May 6, 12:00-1:30pm. Where: Savery 408. Who: Megan Morris, Ph.D. candidate. Title: "Reducing Barriers to Healthcare Access for People with Communication Disabilities: A Pilot Curriculum for Medical Students."

Disability Studies Program brownbag talk. When: Fri. May 13, 12:00-1:30pm. Where: Savery 359. Who: Ann Luetzow, Disability Studies major.  Title: Politics and Rights: A Disability Perspective.

Joanne Woiak, "Cripping Revolution," Fri. Nov. 18, 12-1:15, Savery 408, DS brownbag.

Joyojeet Pal, "The Culture of Workplace Visibility for People with Vision Impairments in Bangalore," Fri. Dec. 9, 11:30-12:45, Savery 408, DS brownbag.

Disability History Month Celebration. Thurs. Oct. 27, 3:30-5:30, Walker-Ames Room in Kane Hall. Disability History Month in Washington is intended to increase understanding of the contributions people with disabilities have made to our society, increase respect and promote inclusion, and inspire students with disabilities to feel a greater sense of pride. Please join us for this celebratory event featuring a panel discussion about the history of disability activism and scholarship at UW. Refreshments provided. All welcome! Link to UW President's announcement.

Disability Awareness Week (link), May 23-28, 2011. Sponsors: ASUW Student Disability Commission and Disability Advocacy Student Alliance. Events:

Every Body Freeze, Now. Flash mob for disability awareness. When: Wed. May 25, 12:00-12:30pm. Where: Red Square. For detailed description, go to http://faculty.washington.edu/kochj/freezenow.html

Cripping Culture: A Live Poetry Slam and Art Show! When: Thurs. May 26, 6:30-8:30pm. Where: Parnassus Cafe, Art Building 007.

Please join us for the Disability Studies Program Year-End Celebration! When: Mon. June 6, 4-6pm. Where: Odegaard Undergraduate Library Room 220. Celebrate our community and the accomplishments of students, faculty and staff over the last year, including our graduating Individualized Studies Majors, Disability Studies Minors, and affiliate graduate and professional students. Your friends and family members are most welcome to join us.  Snacks will be provided. In order for us to be accessible to people with chemical sensitivities, please do not wear scented products.

Elizabeth Lockwood, “Deaf Community Activism: Lessons Learned from Uruguay,” Thur. Feb. 9, 12-1:15 pm, Savery 408

Aditya Ganapathiraju, “Dis-Existentialism,” Fri. Feb. 17, 12-1:15 pm, Savery 408 (Link to video of a version of this talk on YouTube)

Ronnie Thibault (2011 Harlan Hahn award winner), "Can Autistics Redefine Autism? The Cultural Politics of Autistic Activism,"Fri. March 2, 12-1:15 pm, Savery 408

ASUW Student Disability Commission is excited to announce two events featuring Leroy Moore and Krip-Hop Nation:
https://www.facebook.com/events/304412162933653/ (Link to pdf file of the event poster) Title: Broken Bodies, PBP: Police Brutality Profiling Friday. When: Fri. Feb. 10, 5:00-7:00 pm. Where: University of Washington, Odegaard Library, Room 220. This workshop will talk about POOR Magazine and its connection to the issue of police brutality in the disability community featuring Leroy Moore. Police brutality in the disabled community will be discussed as well as how Hip-Hop artists use their talents in cases of police brutality. Leroy will also discuss the origins of Krip Hop Nation and talk about current projects and activism opportunities. There will be audio and visual cases by Hip Hop artists with disabilities and participants will have the option to do an exercise based on these cases. Title: Under 1 Nation: Zulu & Krip-Hop. When: Sat. Feb. 11, 5:00-9:00 pm. Where: University of Washington, Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall 225. This a multimedia presentation featuring Hip-Hop performances by artists with disabilities including Leroy Moore and King Khazm. Using Hip-Hop as a cultural platform, police brutality and profiling within the disability community will be discussed as well as the justice system's relationship to the Black and disability community. This presentation will feature music, audio, and film presentations as well as a panel discussion.