uodsp: FW: CFP & RSVP for Pacific & Western Disability Studies Symposium, May 12-14, University of Washington

Tue Mar 15 13:15:27 PDT 2016

From: hughesc at mail.wou.edu [mailto:hughesc at mail.wou.edu] On Behalf Of Chloe Hughes
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 9:16 AM
To: Joanne Woiak
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Subject: Re: CFP & RSVP for Pacific & Western Disability Studies Symposium, May 12-14, University of Washington

Thanks, Joanne.

Folks on your email may also be interested in the following CFP from the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies for a special issue on literature for young people.

Special issue: Literature for Young People

Guest editors: Chloë Hughes and Elizabeth A. Wheeler

This special issue of the JLCDS aims to bring together an international and multidisciplinary base of readers and writers who explore disability in literature published for young people.

While disability and deafness have often featured in literature for young people, their most usual role has been as a “narrative prosthesis” supporting the storyline. Disability and Deaf literature for young readers has boomed in the twenty-first century, including bestsellers like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Fault in Our Stars, Wonder, Wonderstruck, Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, and Out of My Mind, as well as a growing collection of texts written in or with Blissymbolics, Braille, Sign Language, or in tactile, textile, interactive, and digital formats. This special issue reconsiders the history and current urgency of disability and deafness in literature for young readers in light of this twenty-first century publishing boom.

Children are often on the front lines of the struggle over the meanings of disability. For young people both with and without disabilities, the works they encounter provide long-lasting frames of reference for understanding bodymind diversity. It is especially important that scholars well versed in disability and Deaf justice, theory, and lived experience critique this canon.

We seek articles on a wide variety of genres, including fantasy, dystopias, science fiction, graphic memoirs and novels, biography, digital forms like blogs and vlogs, “misfit romance,” “sick lit,” and superhero stories. Disabilities that only exist in fictional worlds are fair game. The guest editors are interested in submissions that cross-examine race, class, gender, and sexuality as well as disability and deafness and represent a wide cross-section of international literatures and ethnic groups.

We welcome proposals from disability and Deaf studies scholars (especially those who may not have previously written about literature for young people), but also encourage submissions from scholars of other disciplines who might lend their perspectives on using literature for young people with representations of disability to explore bodymind diversity with children and adolescents. We are also interested in intergenerational dialogues, interviews with authors and illustrators who have included protagonists with disabilities or published books for young people in accessible formats, as well as reviews of recently published young adult literature that features protagonists with disabilities. We particularly encourage submissions from scholars with the same disability as the protagonist.

Examples of content foci for this special issue of the JLCDS include, but are not limited to:

• Disabled and Deaf characters challenging normalcy
• Fantastic Freaks and Critical Crips in countercultural texts for young people
• Aesthetic/artistic representations of disability in picturebooks
• Literature for young people by Disabled or Deaf authors and illustrators
• Beyond “narrative prosthesis”
• Children’s and Young Adult Literature in accessible formats
• The role /aesthetics of disability accommodations in texts for young people
• Visibility or invisibility of Disability Rights in literature for young people
• Intersectionality: race, gender, class, sexual orientation, gender identity
• Representations of chronic illness and mental health
• Biographical writing for young people—what is / is not included?
• Critiques of didactic texts for young people on disability
• Interviews of authors/ illustrators
• Reviews of recently published children’s and young adult literature with representations of disability

Timetable:

April 15, 2016: submission of a 500 word proposal for articles or 150 word proposal for reviews and a one-page curriculum vitae to guest editors at hughesc at mail.wou.edu<mailto:hughesc at mail.wou.edu> and ewheeler at uoregon.edu<mailto:ewheeler at uoregon.edu>.

May 15, 2016: prospective authors notified of proposal status.

November 1, 2016: final versions of selected papers due to editors.

February 1, 2017: finalists selected. Decisions and revisions on submissions sent to authors.

May 1, 2017: final, revised papers due from finalists.

Chloë

Chloe Hughes, Ph.D.
Professor of Teacher Education
Western Oregon University
Monmouth, OR 97361
Office Phone: 503-838-8781
Fax: 503-838-8228

On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 11:12 PM, Joanne Woiak <jwoiak at u.washington.edu<mailto:jwoiak at u.washington.edu>> wrote:
Please share this call for proposals and registration for:

The 2016 Pacific and Western Disability Studies Symposium

MAKING DISABILITY PUBLIC: ARTS, SCHOLARSHIP, AND ACTIVISM

Free public events will take place May 12-14, 2016, on the Seattle and Bothell campuses of the University of Washington.  Sponsored by the UW Disability Studies Program.

• Proposal deadline: April 1st.  We are accepting manuscripts to be workshopped in small groups, posters, and art.
• We request that you register by April 1st for any parts of the symposium you wish to attend.

REGISTRATION AND CALL FOR PROPOSALS: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/hdevans/294811

Symposium program: https://depts.washington.edu/disstud/pacific-western-ds-symposium

The Pacific and Western Disability Studies Symposium 2016: Making Disability Public: Arts, Scholarship, and Activism, involves several events that are free and open to the public at the University of Washington.  This year, the symposium will feature events that showcase talented artists, highlight advocacy being done on our campuses and in our communities, and provide space for scholars to share work in the field of Disability Studies.  We are pleased to welcome artist Riva Lehrer, an award-winning painter, writer, and speaker whose work explores issues of physical identity and cultural depictions of disability.  Our keynote panels will address how to integrate DS into curricula and pedagogy, and offer perspectives on a state apology for eugenics and forced sterilization.  Emerging scholars and activists are especially encouraged to submit manuscripts on any topic in Disability Studies, as well as posters and art pieces.  All are invited to attend the full symposium in which we engage with ways of making disability public through arts, scholarship, and activism.

IMPORTANT DATES:
• April 1, 11:59 pm PST: Deadline for proposals and registration
• May 1: Workshop participants submit final papers
• May 12 & 13: Community events featuring Riva Lehrer
• May 14: Symposium panels & workshops & poster session

QUESTIONS? Please email Joanne Woiak and Heather Evans: uwdisabilitystudies at gmail.com<mailto:uwdisabilitystudies at gmail.com>

To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office, preferably at least 10 days in advance, at: 206.543.6450<tel:206.543.6450> (voice), 206.543.6452<tel:206.543.6452> (TTY), 206.685.7264<tel:206.685.7264> (fax), or email at dso at uw.edu<mailto:dso at uw.edu>.