[ecrea] Conference: Disability, Media, and Human Rights: Policy, Practice, Performance

Disability, Media, and Human Rights: Policy, Practice, Performance


The Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (GADIM) 
and Curtin University in Perth, Australia, are hosting a conference 9:30 
a.m. – 5 p.m. April 19-20, 2018 at Curtin University on . The conference 
is free and open to all. Supported by the Centre for Human Rights 
Education, Curtin University.


http://media-dis-n-dat.blogspot.com.au/2018/04/gadim-curtin-university-in-australia.html

The conference is informed by Article 8 of the United Nations Convention 
on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which  affirms that the 
global disability community’s access to the media is a human right, as 
well as the way public attitudes towards people with disability are 
shaped. However, for people with disability, access to the media can be 
fraught with technological road-blocks, is punctuated by a lack of 
functional and reflexive representations, and perpetuates clichés about 
the creativity and consciousness of people with disability.


This conference is an investigation of three nodes of intersection 
between disability and the media:

Policy: Human rights, advocacy and access regarding media.

Practice: Making media as a person with a disability. Making media for 
people with disabilities.

Performance: Representations of disability in the media.


Access to media is a human right, and the conference explores how 
government, policy makers and advocacy groups can ensure equitable and 
just access for people with disability to the media landscape in all its 
avenues.


Media makers with a disability and those who may make media with a 
disability consciousness will present at the conference on topics 
including: inclusive advertising, blogging, YouTube activism, community 
media, and gaming. DADAA digital arts will present a session about its 
community engagement focus on arts and disability.


Speakers at the conference will include:

Beth Haller, Co-founder, Global Alliance for Disability in Media and 
Entertainment (GADIM) and author of Representing Disability in an 
Ableist World

Katie Ellis – Curtin University and author of Disability Media Work: 
Opportunities and Obstacles

Robyn Lambird – Blogger, model, YouTube celebrity, My Trex Life

Angel Dixon - Model, disability advocate, blogger, designer

ShawnBurns – Disability and media researcher and journalism lecturer at 
University of Wollongong


A film screening of the documentary “Defiant Lives,” which tells the 
story of the rise and fight of the disability rights movement in the 
United States, Britain and Australia, will be at 3 p.m. Friday April 20, 
followed by a panel discussion.


Although the conference is free, please register via Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/disability-media-and-human-rights-policy-practice-performance-tickets-44626681606 



For questions, contact: (katie.ellis /at/ curtin.edu.au)



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