About the Event

The Third Annual Conference of the Indian Disability Studies Collective, to be held at the Department of English, Central University of Rajasthan from 8th to 10th February 2023, invites scholars to deliberate on disability in the realm of everyday life and share their research in the field. Though the conference is open to scholars from all the disciplines, the emphasis will remain on approaches that are oriented towards literary, cultural and media studies. While there are multiple trajectories that could be explored in relation to this theme, some of the ideas that could be explored include:

  • Everyday worlds of different impairment groups and the materiality of representation
  • Disability perpetuations in mass media: production and reception
  • Everyday expressions of disability: language and aesthetics
  • Narratives of access: disability access on a day-to-day basis that goes beyond physical infrastructure
  • Cognition, the affective realm, and disability sociality
  • Life-writing of disabled people
  • Interrogation and subversion of normalcy and ableism through a reversal of the gaze
  • Narratives of everyday caregiving and care-receiving
  • Disability intersectionality: interaction of disability with other aspects of subjectivity
  • Subjective constitution and erasure of disability
  • Disability and religion: faith and practices of disabled people
  • Disability and the politics of the medical and neuro-cognitive paradigms
  • Empowerment and social justice and the matrix of disability in our daily lives
  • Disability and the everyday experiences in education and employment

    Prospective participants are requested to send 300 word abstract to idscconf2023@gmail.com with a 50-word bio-note.

     

    Points to Remember

    • Conference Dates: 8th- 10th February 2023
    • Abstract (300 words) Submission Deadline: 31st December 2022
    • Results of abstract review returned to authors: 10th January 2023
    • Registration Fee: INR 2500 for paper presenters (excluding accommodation) INR 3500 for paper presenters (with accommodation)
    • Final date of registration and fee payment: 31st January 2023
    • For any questions or queries please write to: idscconf2023@gmail.com
     

    Note: Only members of the IDSC are eligible to present their papers at the conference. The membership fee may be paid at the time of registration or paid through online transfer at the venue. The details of the same will be provided when candidates are intimated on the selection of abstracts. The membership categories are:

    Students - 500 INR

    Employed professionals (Annual) - 1000 INR Membership for 3 years - 2500 INR

    Life Membership (10yrs) - 6500 INR

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