Forthcoming Conferences

24th Annual Pac Rim Conference: April 14 – 15 2008

The International Forum 2008: Securing the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is a pre–conference event to the 24th Annual Pac Rim Conference. The event will cover:

  1. What are implications of the Convention [on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities CRPD] to persons with disabilities in countries of the Asia Pacific Region?
  2. What are regional concerns surrounding implementation of the CRPD?
  3. What are the challenges for “developing countries” as they seek to implement the Convention?
  4. How can applying the guiding principles of the Convention affect positive real change for persons with disabilities?
  5. In what ways do international norms help or hinder local activism and advocacy?
  6. How can activists use international norms to promote disability rights within their nations?

The design of the forum will consist of Noted Speakers, breakout sessions, discussion panels and workshops. Select speakers including experts with regional and UN experience, advocates and community leaders will present and participate in panels and lead discussions around the posed questions. The forum will also provide a space for dialogue and informal conversations.

The program topics at a glance are:

  1. Autism
  2. Employment
  3. Independent Living
  4. Family Support
  5. Disability Studies
  6. Hidden Disabilities
  7. International Disability Rights
  8. Teach to Reach all learners
  9. Technologies for realizing potential and building community
  10. Transition to adulthood

Source: Website of the Pac Rim Conference: http://www.pacrim.hawaii.edu/

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Disability Studies Meets Sociology in Research, Teaching and Activism July 31– August 2, 2008

Event announcement:
CFP: Disability Studies Meets Sociology in Research, Teaching and Activism
Session organized by the Disability Division,
Society for the Studies of Social Problems (SSSP),
Boston, MA
(more on the conference and SSSP at: http://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/m/293).

This is an open session that invites scholars from sociology and disability studies to engage in meaningful dialogue about the connections, affinities and possible tensions between sociological thinking, teaching and activism and the understanding informed by disability studies work and activism.

This is a wonderful opportunity to engage with the intersection of social science based research and practice from a critical disability angle, and vice versa; a connection that is currently invisible in contemporary works in both fields.

If you have done work that scholarly engages with these themes, please consider presenting it at SSSP. For submission guidelines and extended call for papers go to http://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/m/293. All papers or extended abstracts have to be submitted electronically by January 31, 2008 at: http://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/pageId/591.

For more inquiries, please contact

Liat Ben–Moshe
Sociology & Disability Studies
302 Maxwell Hall
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244
lbenmosh@maxwell.syr.edu

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