http://www.cdsa-acei.ca/home.html See full CFP for details. Conference in Calgary, May 28-30, 2016
Canadian Disability Studies Association -
Association Canadienne des Études sur l’Incapacité (CDSA-ACEI)
2016 Conference
Energizing Communities
Saturday, May 28- Monday, May 30, 2016
University of Calgary, Calgary AB, Canada
This conference is organized as part of the 2016 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS: December 7, 2015
“Community stands for the kind of world which is not, regrettably, available to us—but which we would dearly wish to inhabit and we hope to repossess” (Bauman, 2001, p. 3).
Our communities exist in classrooms, work places, the streets, cyberspace, public spaces, institutions, and hospitals. We have scholarly communities, activist communities, athletic communities, artistic communities, and more. We enact communities with other disabled, Deaf, and mad people, allies, families, and workers; and they are forged through academic, artistic, activist, athletic, historic, institutional, and online connections. We energize our communities in many ways: through crip labour, mad love, desire, needs for connections, and investments in futurity. At the same time, we think critically about how the requirement to energize reflects a neoliberal, ableist logic.
This year’s “Energizing Communities” theme reflects the University of Calgary’s commitment to community engagement at local, regional, national, and international levels as well as the city of Calgary’s position as the centre of Canada’s energy industry. We think with and interrogate this industry for its social, economic, and environmental affects in has on our communities. Read more about this year’s Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities here: http://congress2016.ca.
This year’s theme is one that can be taken up by and challenged through disability studies, Deaf studies, and mad studies. The Canadian Disability Studies Association-Association Canadienne des Études sur l’Incapacité (CDSA-ACEI) invites abstracts for panels, papers, workshops, and artistic contributions that reflect on the meaning of community and interrogate the many ways we energize, contribute to, build, and live within our disability, Deaf, mad communities, and the other communities of which we are a part. We also invite submissions that trouble the normative terms through which the act of energizing is often defined.
Submission Guidelines:
Submit a completed submission template form, including a 50-word description of what the presentation is about, and an anonymized abstract with title in a separate Word document enclosed via email attachments to cdsa.acei@gmail.com by December 7, 2015. The subject line should read, “CDSA-ACEI proposal for Energizing Communities.”
Please check our website (www.cdsa-acei.ca) and Facebook page for upcoming announcements about conference bursaries for students and community members.
Individual Papers – Individual presentations will be placed alongside 2-3 other panellists who share a similar focus. A submission must include a paper title and a 250 word abstract; the abstract should consist of the following:
· Stated purpose and relevance to one or more of the conference themes
· Significance of the proposal to the field
· Relevant literature to support your abstract
· Explicit use of critical approaches, frameworks, theories, perspectives, and/or concepts
· Description of how the work was done
· Contributions to research, theory, activism, advocacy, or social change
· 4-5 key words that describe your abstract
· Details of audio-visual needs (e.g., DVD, LCD projection and/or VHS)