Call for papers: Deaf and other lives, Sept 25/26, Amsterdam

[Onno Crasborn]

CALL FOR PAPERS - FEEL FREE TO CIRCULATE



working conference

DEAF AND OTHER LIVES; LIVING IN MULTIPLE CULTURES.

September 25 - 26 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

This is a call to contribute papers to this conference, organized by  
the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research of the University of  
Amsterdam en co-sponsored by the Royal Effatha Guyot Group.

The conference will address three themes
1. Cultural communities in transition, focusing on the changing  
environment of cultural minorities, including the Deaf, within  
dominant majority cultures. (Key note speaker Dr. Karen Nakamura ,  
Anthropology and East Asian Studies, Yale University)

2. Identity and community, focusing on how people, including Deaf  
people, create identities between cultures. (Key note speaker Dr. Jan  
Kåre Brevik Rokkan Centre, Bergen University, Norway)

3. Origin and development of Deafstudies, focusing on its relationship  
with the emancipation of the Deaf community and exploring parallels  
with fields like gender studies or black studies. (Key note speaker  
Dr. Goedele de Clerck, Anthropology Gent, Belgium)

At the conference three parallel sessions will be organized, one for  
each of the three themes. If you are interested in contributing,  
please send an abstract of no more than 400 words, before June 15, to h.j.hiddinga at uva.nl 
<mailto:h.j.hiddinga at uva.nl>. Papers can be presented in Dutch,  
English, Dutch or American Sign Language. Sign language interpreters  
will be present during the conference.

Program committee: Dr. Anja Hiddinga, Prof. Stuart Blume, Prof. Sjaak  
van der Geest (UvA)

For more information please contact Anja Hiddinga,  
h.j.hiddinga at uva.nl. Faculty of Social and Behavioural Science,  
University of Amsterdam, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185, 1012 DK  
Amsterdam. A full programme will soon be annouced via the website: http://www.medical-anthoppology.nl 
.

A registration fee of € 50,- will be payable (waived for Pontem  
members, and members of the ASSR).
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