[ecrea] Call fo contributions - MeCCSA Disability Studies Network - Currents in the Mainstream - Where are we going?

>MeCCSA Disability Studies Network
>Currents in the Mainstream - Where are we going?
>22nd September, De Montfort University
>CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
>
>Disability images of the1980s and 1990s have received significant critical
>attention, but there has been little work to date on its development in the
>2000s, especially in relation to new or changing representations of
>disability and the impacts of new media and changes in production, 
>distribution
>and reception. This day conference aims to re-visit and re-evaluate 
>the complex
>issues at stake in contemporary representations of disability and impairment
>from a variety of critical perspectives, investigating both continuities and
>new trends in representing disability. We encourage 
>submissions  (papers or otherwise) which examine how representation 
>work is encouraged or circumscribed by questions of disability identity,
>funding, distribution and audiences. The conference will also reflect on the
>relationship between disability art and  and new disability imagery
>
>Topics may include:
>-    disabled performers, directors and media workers
>-    mainstream film with disability themes
>-    mainstream television with disability themes
>-    disabled people in media industries
>-    the politicisation of disability images
>-    post- disability' genres
>-    disability and comedy
>-    disabled people and Reality TV/ documentary
>-    gender, sexuality, ethnicity, the body
>
>
>Proposals of approximately 200 words for a 20-30 minute presentation
>should be sent to the organisers, (MMontgomerie /at/ dmu.ac.uk), or 
>(aw540 /at/ york.ac.uk) by
>the first call deadline of 12th July.
>

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