CALL FOR PAPERS: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERROGATING DISABILITY STUDIES: LITERATURE, CULTURE, PERFORMANCE, ORGANIZED BY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH DELHI UNIVERSITY
Call for Papers
International Conference on Interrogating Disability Studies: Literature, Culture, Performance
The conference shall bring together disability studies scholars, critics, as well as writers with/on disability on a single platform along with disability rights champions and role models. Further, it aims to engage with disability in a holistic manner. An attempt shall also be made to have on board international disability studies theorists, representatives of INGOs, performers with disability as well as lifetime achievers. The sessions will include, but not be limited to:
Historical perspectives to disability;
Disability movements and disability studies theories;
Representation of disability in various genres of literature such as fiction, short stories and poetry;
Disability and performing arts such as drama and films;
Rights-based movements and their significance in disability studies;
Disability and gender;
Interactions with writers with disabilities/translators of disability texts;
Best practices relating to persons with disabilities in higher education; Disability and pedagogy;
Inclusion of disability in curriculum.
Papers are invited on the above themes/any other, related to the broad areas of the conference. The abstracts of around 300 words may be sent to disabilitycon.engdu@gmail.com
Important dates
Last date for submission of abstracts: 21st December, 2017.
Notification of accepted papers: 15th January, 2018.
Submission of working papers: 31st January, 2018.
Conference: 21st-23rd February, 2018.
All attempts will be made to publish the conference proceedings.
Department of English, University of Delhi, Delhi – 110007.
