Present Difference: The Cultural Production of Disability
Manchester Metropolitan University in conjunction with BBC Northwest
and the Cultural Disability Studies Research Network
Wednesday 6th ? Friday 8th January 2010
Extennded Deadline: July 1st 2009
This conference seeks to address the contemporary cultural production of
disability within and across local and global contexts. Its focus is upon
representation both in the sense of the production and circulation of
particular narratives, ideas and images of
disability and non-disability, and in
the sense of the participation of disabled cultural practitioners in the
production of culture.
We invite further proposals from all stakeholders in the mass mediated
production of disability across a variety of themes and from a diversity of
perspectives within this disparate field of enquiry.
Keynote speakers:
Lennard Davis (Illinois) author Enforcing Normalcy: Disability Deafness and
the Body (2001) and Bending Over Backwards: Essays on Disability and the
Body (2002)
Robert McCruer (George Washington) author CripTheory: Cultural Signs of
Queerness and Disability (2006)
David T. Mitchell (Temple) author Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the
Dependencies of Discourse (2001) with Sharon L. Snyder
Sharon L. Snyder (Illinois) author Cultural
Locations of Disability (2006) with
David T. Mitchell
Additional speakers and contributors:
Diane Carr (IoE, London) Paul Darke (Outside Centre) Jim Ferris (Toledo)
Stuart Murray (Leeds) George McKay (Salford) Simon McKeown (Teesside)
Rebecca Mallett (Sheffield Hallam)
Confirmed Events:
Thursday 6th January
Justin Edgar director of Special People gives a
directorâ??s talk followed by a
screening of the film at Cornerhouse Manchester
Friday 8th January
Talk, Q&A and networking event at BBC Northwest, Manchester.
The conference will also include readings, performances, films and exhibited
work.
This CFP deadline has been extended to encourage additional submissions
around developing panels and presentations. These include but are not
limited to the construction of disability in: Comedy Animation Theatre
Popular Fiction Contemporary Film
If you would like to contribute to this event please send abstracts and
proposals (max 250 words) and biographical notes (max 150 words) for
individual and/or group papers, panels or alternative formats to be sent to
<mailto:(presentdifference /at/ yahoo.co.uk)>(presentdifference /at/ yahoo.co.uk).
Enquiries to: Dr Lucy Burke, Manchester Metropolitan University,
<mailto:(l.burke /at/ mmu.ac.uk)>(l.burke /at/ mmu.ac.uk) If
you are interested in attending the conference, please
contact
<mailto:(l.burke /at/ mmu.ac.uk)>(l.burke /at/ mmu.ac.uk) with
your contact details and email address.
