Originally from Scott Lissner
Lissner.2@OSU.EDU (forwarded by Charles
Wankel)
Ninth Annual Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion & Disability:
Change, Challenge, & Collaboration
April 28 and 29, 2009
The Ohio State University's Columbus Campus
Session Proposals Are Due November 1, 2008 - Student Posters Due March 30,
2008
The Ninth Annual Multiple Perspectives conference continues the university's
efforts to bring together a diverse audience to explore disability as both
an individual experience and social reality that cuts across typical
divisions of education & employment; scholarship & service; business &
government; race, gender & ethnicity. This year's theme "Change, Challenge &
Collaboration" reflects the critical place in history we occupy.
Between the last conference and this call for papers the United Nations has
adopted the Convention on Disability, Congress passed a new GI bill
benefiting veterans with disabilities, the Higher Education Opportunity Act
which includes new disability funding and requirements, and redefined
disability in the ADA Amendments Act of 2009; the U.S. Access Board is
proposing changes in Section 508; and the Department of Justice is in the
final stages of a comprehensive review and update of the regulations for the
ADA.
For more information on the conference and details about paper submission,
please visit
Http://ada.osu.edu/conferences/2009Conf/callforpapers09.html
"Disability Studies should serve as an access ramp between the disability
community and research universities".
Paul K. Longmore
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and
wrong".
H.L. Mencken
"Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about
disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations
that flow from actual impairment".
Justice William J. Brennan
"Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be
insistently curious".
Gordon Gee
L. Scott Lissner,
University ADA Coordinator
Associate, John Glenn School of Public Affairs
Lecturer, Knowlton School of Architecture, Moritz College of Law &
Disability Studies
Office Of The Provost, The Ohio State University
1849 Cannon Drive
Columbus, OH 43210-1266
Lissner.2@OSU.EDU
(614) 292-6207(v); (614) 688-8605(tty)
(614) 688-3665(fax);
Http://ada.osu.edu
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Charles Wankel
http://facpub.stjohns.edu/~wankelc
wankelc@stjohns.edu
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