Nancy E Hansen, PhD, Professor, Director, Interdisciplinary Master's Program,Disability Studies Accessibility is not an optics issue or a choice it is a necessity If you say I have special needs ... then just say the word disabled. Euphemisms only fuel ableism. Disability is not a dirty word. Haben Girma True Inclusion moves at the speed of trust. Atif Choudhury 128 Education Building University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3T 2N2 Email:Nancy.Hansen@umanitoba.ca<mailto:Nancy.Hansen@umanitoba.ca> Chapter 18: DisAppearing Disability: Disability MAiD Invisible, by Nancy Hansen https://canadianscholars.ca/book/disappearing/ ________________________________ From: The Disability-Research Discussion List <DISABILITY-RESEARCH@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> on behalf of Liam Livesley <0000c54cd594e083-dmarc-request@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2024 7:35 PM To: DISABILITY-RESEARCH@JISCMAIL.AC.UK <DISABILITY-RESEARCH@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Subject: CfA: Health Humanities Online Work-in-Progress Workshop Caution! This message was sent from outside the University of Manitoba. Call for Abstracts: Health Humanities Online Work-in-Progress Workshop<https://docs.google.com/document/d/12kCSUvtkCT4cpWhYyyn3UvCJScSZpHqjQER7US0Nslo/> 30/04/24, 11:00 - 16:00 (BST) Online (Micrsoft Teams) [Register to attend<https://forms.gle/FkLYJhQNDjEuwBBR7>] Abstract submission deadline: 08/04/24, 23:59 (BST) Notifications of acceptance: by 16/04/24 The SWW DTP Health Humanities Research Cluster invite submissions of work-in-progress for presentation, on any topic in the health humanities, including, but not limited to: * Humanities approaches to understanding health, well-being, disease, illness, disability, the body, etc. * Representations and discourses of health in art, literature, theatre, film etc. * Arts and humanities approaches in therapeutic and clinical settings. * Health humanities’ interplay with health policy. * Humanities approaches to methodological questions in the health sciences. Abstracts should be no more than 300 words, and suitable for talks of up to 25 minutes (followed by Q&A from the audience for up to 15 minutes). We’ll accept anything that hasn’t yet been submitted for publication as “work-in-progress”, but colleagues looking for an early venue to present preliminary stages of projects are particularly encouraged to submit. Inter- and trans-disciplinary submissions are enthusiastically welcomed. Submission is open to all. Submissions are particularly encouraged from Early Career Researchers (i.e. PGRs and those who have received their PhDs in the last 5 years, not counting career breaks) and those who identify as members of groups underrepresented in academia. Please submit your abstract [here<https://forms.gle/Y9qUZuVFz6YQaLAU9>], by 23:59 BST on 08/04/24. Attendee registration is open, [here<https://forms.gle/FkLYJhQNDjEuwBBR7>]. The organisers can be contacted at health.swwdtp@gmail.com The Health Humanities Research Cluster is a PGR-run research group of the South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership of the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council. You can find us @HealthClusterSW on Twitter. Please do share with your own networks if relevant! With best wishes, Liam Livesley (on behalf of the Health Humanities Research Cluster) ________________End of message________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about list administration should be sent to disability-research-request@jiscmail.ac.uk Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page.