CFP: Disability and Impairment: a Technological Fix? (Nov. 2015: UK)
Event Title: Disability and Impairment: a Technological Fix?
Date: 27th November 2015
Location: London Metropolitan Archives, 40 Northampton Road, London, EC1R 0HB
Part of Disability History Month and supported by the King’s Fund, this conference will feature a range of speakers including community groups, heritage organisations and academics.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are invited from across the heritage, cultural, academic and grassroots communities. Our aim is to generate a dialogue between these groups through a programme of presentations and shorts talks discussing the theme of technological change and the portrayal of disability then and now.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
Assistive technology– the changing ways in which technology has been seen to act as an equaliser and a ‘fix’ for disability
Medical technology– the ways in which new medical technology has affected concepts of what is “normal”
A revolution?– comparisons of the portrayal of disability in the information age with agricultural and industrial societies.
We invite short abstracts of between 50 and 200 words for informal 10 minute presentations that share work-in- progress or provide an introduction to new projects or research that address these themes. We also invite abstracts for 20 minute papers or presentations exploring them themes in more detail.
This conference is being delivered on a not for profit basis and the organisers are unable to cover speakers costs except in cases where speakers would otherwise be prevented from attending for financial reasons.
Abstract deadline: 1 October 2015
Abstracts to: tom.furber@cityoflondon.gov,uk