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Additional Opportunities for Training and Education
AHEAD Members are eligible for discounts
on courses offered by the following two organizations:
EASI, Equal Access to Software and Information,
provides a number of online courses. Mention that you are an AHEAD
member when registering and you will get a 20% discount on the
course. To see what's available, please check out http://easi.cc/workshop.htm
for more information.
The DAIS Academy, the professional development arm
of Disability Access Information and Support, provides a number
of online courses for disability service providers, faculty, and
administrators. Mention that you are an AHEAD member when registering
and you will get a 10% discount on any course. To see what's available,
please visit http://www.daisacademy.com
for more information.
Society for Disability Studies 20th Annual
Conference
"Disability & Disability Studies: Works in Progress"
Date: May 31-June 2, 2007
Location: Seattle
http://www.uic.edu/orgs/sds/annualmeetings.html
2007 marks the 25th year of the Society for Disability
Studies, and the field has changed dramatically over the last
quarter century. As Disability Studies continues to grow, increasing
its presence in university departments, cultural criticism, and
art and knowledge production, SDS wants to take this anniversary
opportunity to reevaluate the discipline and reflect on the state
of the field. Current Disability Studies scholarship differs
from much of that which precedes it, most notably in its efforts
to be more inclusive, offering a more complex conception of what
constitutes “disability.” Rather than remaining rooted
in a particular cultural moment or ideological understanding,
Disability Studies is a work in progress.
In order to encourage
this kind of self-reflection, both as a field and an organization,
this year's conference addresses
the idea of “works in progress”.
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