Pac Rim 2009 Info
Disability Studies and Disability Culture
What is our Future?
Disability studies is us looking out at the world and seeing how that looks to us
—Simi Linton, Advocate, Scholar and Author
The Pacific Rim Conference strand on Disability Studies and Disability Culture seeks to imagine what our future might entail. This year we have presentations that focus on disability, as sociological and cultural phenomena within the context of the social sciences, humanities, and arts and sciences. A snapshot of some of the presentations includes:
- Disabled Literature
- Story-telling for the Home Enrichment of Language and Literacy (SHELLS): Impacts on
- Disability Culture: Global and Diverse
- Multicultural Issues in Disability Studies
- A Way Forward: Presenting a Postmodern Framework for Disability Studies
- “Blind vacancy”: Sighted Culture and Voyeuristic Historiography in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
- “Teaching of Disability Studies in India: Role of Distance Education”
- Disability and Fatherhood—perspectives and experiences of fatherhood for disabled men in New Zealand/Aotearoa
- Disability Nationalism in Crip Times
- A Needs Assessment: What and How to Teach Teachers and Staff on the Needs of and Strategies for Students with Disabilities
For more information, please visit http://pacrim.hawaii.edu/submissions, or contact the topic leaders: Megan Conway at mconway@hawaii.edu, Steve Brown at sebrown@hawaii.edu or Norma Jean Stodden at nstodden@hawaii.edu. For information about the Pacific Rim Conference in general please contact the conference organizers at prinfo@hawaii.edu.
