<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[apologies for x-posting, but following on from 'Contemporary Issues in Disability' panel at CSAA in Adelaide, this may be of interest.]</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">'The Politics of Disability in New Zealand and Australia'</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">a stream for ANZCA 2008, <A href="http://anzca08.massey.ac.nz/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002CE2">http://anzca08.massey.ac.nz</FONT></A>/</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">convened by Gerard Goggin (U. of NSW) & Christopher Newell (UTas)</DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"> </P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">full papers due: 15 February 2008</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">abstracts due: 9 June 2008</DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"> </P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Over recent years, disability has emerged as an important, contested, and interdisciplinary facet of communication and media studies. Disability has also become a salient focus of contemporary government and understandings of the social.</DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"> </P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">In this panel, we wish to offer a stocktake of disability and power in New Zealand and Australia. We hope to identity and debate contemporary issues in disability, and to bring together and assess emerging research and theory -- and to discuss the place of disability in communications and media studies. We are particularly interested in fostering comparative approaches to the politics of disability and impairment across national and regional settings, notably between New Zealand and Australia.</DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"> </P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">In this light, we welcome topics on a range of relevant topics, including, but certainly not limited to:</DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"> </P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">* theories of disability and communication and media</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">* social and cultural models of disability</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">* studies of the politics of disability</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">* the ethics of disability</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">* disability and communication technologies</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">* understanding the cultural locations of disability and impairment</DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"> </P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Please contact both convenors to discuss possible topics for papers or panels:</DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"> </P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Gerard Goggin (<A href="mailto:g.goggin@unsw.edu.au"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002CE2">g.goggin@unsw.edu.au</FONT></A>)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Christopher Newell (<A href="mailto:christopher.newell@utas.edu.au"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002CE2">christopher.newell@utas.edu.au</FONT></A>)</DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"> </P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Postgraduate students and junior scholars in particular are welcome to get in touch. Please remember that papers and abstracts must be submitted through the central submissions process.</DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"> </P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">See you there!</DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"> </P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Stream convenors: Gerard Goggin (<A href="mailto:g.goggin@unsw.edu.au"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002CE2">g.goggin@unsw.edu.au</FONT></A>) and Christopher Newell (<A href="mailto:christopher.newell@utas.edu.au"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002CE2">christopher.newell@utas.edu.au</FONT></A>)</DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"> </P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Papers for refereed stream: submit to Elspeth Tilley (<A href="mailto:e.tilley@massey.ac.nz"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002CE2">e.tilley@massey.ac.nz</FONT></A>)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">by 15 February 2008</DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"> </P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Abstracts (up to 300 words) for non-refereed stream: submit to Nicole</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Patterson (<A href="mailto:n.v.patterson@massey.ac.nz"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002CE2">n.v.patterson@massey.ac.nz</FONT></A>) by 9 June 2008</DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"> </P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Full details at: <A href="http://anzca08.massey.ac.nz/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002CE2">http://anzca08.massey.ac.nz</FONT></A>/</DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; 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