DISABILITY AT THE CUTTING EDGE: - a colloquium to examine the impact on theory, research and professional practice. The Disabilty Studies and Research Institute Seminar Series(formally Social Relations of Disability Research Network#41; cordially invite y

a colloquium to examine the impact on theory, research and professional practice.

The Disabilty Studies and Research Institute Seminar Series
(formally Social Relations of Disability Research Network) cordially invite you to our September conference DISABILITY AT THE CUTTING EDGE: a colloquium to examine the impact on theory, research and professional practice.

The 'social model of disability' argues that although individuals may have various impairments, the degree and nature of the disability they experience will be a result of what arrangements society makes to support their social, economic and cultural participation. Such insight has critical implications for professional disciplines from engineering to law, from nursing to architecture, from communications to business and commerce.

In recognition of how these issues are central to contemporary social research, the UTS Transforming Cultures research centre joins with DSaRI to present this day long colloquium on Disability and the Humanities and Social Sciences. The colloquium will hear from four academics active in disability research. Prof Ashley Craig (UTS), Helen Meekosha (UNSW), Dr Jani Klotz, an independent researcher and Prof Andrew Jakubowicz (UTS) will reflect on the central disciplinary questions raised for them by the impact of disability studies.

When:   September 12, 2003
Where: Graduate School of Business
            Level 4
            Rooms 438 & 439
            UTS
            Quay St, Ultimo

Time: 10am - 4pm
Lunch will be provided

Registration: $100 (public)
$75 (DSaRI members)
$25 (unwaged)

To view more information about the colloquium, and to download the registration form, go to: http://www.transforming.cultures.uts.edu.au/dsari/

Further Information:

Keri Glastonbury
E: transforming.cultures@uts.edu.au
P: 61 2 9514 2309
W: www.transforming.cultures.uts.edu.au

We look forward to seeing you there.

Auspiced by the School of Social Work,
University Of New South Wales

SPONSORED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES ,THE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEY, THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY AND THE UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE

Leanne Dowse
Social Relations of Disability Research Network
School of Social Work, Rm 1528, Matthews Building
University of New South Wales
Sydney, 2052
Australia

srdrn@unsw.edu.au
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