The Center for Material Culture Studies (CMCS) at the University of Delaware invites proposals for its third biennial conference, “The Disability Gaze: Material and Visual Approaches.” Submission Deadline: September 15, 2021

Access and Tinkering: Designing Assistive Technologies as Political Practice

With keynotes by Aimi Hamraie (Vanderbilt) and Anne Waldschmidt (Cologne), a talk by Tomas Criado (Berlin) and an interactive maker session.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Personal is Historical: Creating narratives through reciprocal processes

Octavian Robinson, Gallaudet University

18. Juni 2021, 3.00-4.30 pm CET

Disability and Video Games: Practices of En-/Disabling Modes of Digital Gaming 

Editors: Beate Ochsner & Markus Spöhrer (University of Konstanz, Germany)

Deadline for Abstracts: 15.04.2021 (300 words)Deadline for papers: 15.09.2021

Please submit your abstracts: markus.spoehrer [at] uni-konstanz.de

 

Keynote: Anne Waldschmidt

Inclusion – Accessibility – Normality: Some Remarks from a Dispositif-Analytical Perspective

Akustische Übersetzungen von Träumen und Tinnitus: Zur Verbindung von Sound und Dis/Ability Studies

Luisa Drews (Berlin) & Robert Stock (Berlin)

THE SOUND OF SOUND STUDIES. Jahrestagung der AG Auditive Medienkulturen und Sound Studies in der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft. 8. - 10. Juli 2021. Jahrestagung 2021 der AG Auditive Medienkulturen und Sound Studies in der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft, Lüneburg 

 

Assistance, Assistants and Assistive Media. Barriers and Interfaces of Digital Cultures

The research project Media of Assistance, is organising its final conference in the coming summer term: "Assistance, Assistants and Assistive Media. Barriers and Interfaces of Digital Cultures" and would like to invite you to participate.

The conference will take place between 1 and 3 July, probably online. Submissions for papers should be sent to AssistiveMedia [at] leuphana.de by 30 April.

Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Mara Mills (NYU)

All further information can be found in the call for papers: Click here for more information.

Keynote: Aimi Hamraie

Crip Making

Assistance, Assistants and Assistive Media. Barriers and Interfaces of Digital Cultures (01-03 July 2021)

Organized by the project "Assistive Media" at Leuphana University Lüneburg.

Please register via mail: AssistiveMedia@leuphana.de 

Contours of Ableism: Challenging the Notions and Reproduction Mechanisms of Normativity and Social Capital

Prof. Dr. Fiona Kumari Campbell, FRSA, 10:00am-15:00pm (CET) Humboldt University of Berlin

Ableism is a system of processes and practices that vary according to time, context and location that forms understandings and tactics of interaction, exclusion, comportment of self as they pertain to humanisation and corresponding hierarchicalisation of life. In this talk I will discuss the complexity of ableist relations in order to refresh the conversation by drawing upon unfamiliar, non-western knowledges to open a new space and lift the dust (aggiornamento) of thinking about human devaluation and development of social capital for minoritised groups.