EVENTS
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Past Events
Biannual Conference of the Disability Inclusion Africa Network
Programme for our Forthcoming Conference, 17th March 2023
Registration for this online conference is free. Please contact Charlotte Baker c.baker@lancaster.ac.uk to register.
Call for Papers
Submission deadline 27th January 2023
Implications for International Development
Alternative explanations for disability in African contexts: Implications for international development’, University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon
Disability and Stigma
Disability and Stigma
Alternative Explanations for Disability: Stigma as Barrier to Participation
Organised by Professor Emelda Ngufor Samba, Disability and Inclusion Africa Network
Universitéde Yaoundé 1, Cameroon
Phase One: Friday 12thNovember/ Friday 26th-Monday 29thNovember 2021: Theatre workshop
Phase Two: Tuesday 30thNovember: Plenary, Round Table and Theatre performance
The primary objective of this workshop is to explore the contribution of stigma to the non-participation of people with disability in the social, economic, educational, and political domains Africa.
The workshop will take place in two phases. In a four-day workshop, university students and members of NGOs with disability will explore applied theatre tools and techniques to reflect on the nuances related to disability especially in Cameroon; the disparity between policies that favour the disabled and their actual implications.
Concerns raised during the discussions will constitute the thematic of an open-ended 45-minute play that will be presented to the public during phase two of the workshop. This second phase will constitute panel presentations and round table discussions around the theme of disability and inclusion in Africa.
'Disability and Indigenous African Thought'
'Disability and Indigenous African Thought'
Programme and Call for Papers
Registration: There is no charge to participate in this online workshop. Please contact Charlotte Baker to register. Registration closes on Monday 22 February 2021.
Programme
Keynote Speaker: Professor Edwin Etieyibo
Edwin Etieyibo is a Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Click here for a downloadable PDF of his biographical information.
Postgraduate Webinar: ‘Disability Research in the Global South’
Postgraduate Webinar: ‘Disability Research in the Global South’
Organized by the Disability and Inclusion Africa Network
Friday 6 November 2020
Alternative Explanations – Disability Research in the Global South
Call for Papers
The Disability and Inclusion Africa Network (DIA Network) is working to highlight the impact of alternative explanations for disability on disabled people, their communities, activists, civil society and policy makers. A principal aim of the DIA Network is to facilitate discussion, learning and networking in order to understand range of beliefs and attitudes that underpin the alternative explanations offered for disability.
The DIA Network invites Masters’ and PhD students to contribute to this discussion, learning and networking by proposing a 10-minute paper for its forthcoming postgraduate webinar under the broad theme of ‘Alternative Explanations – Disability Research in the Global South’.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Alternative explanations for disability in the Global South;
Traditional discourses of disability;
Epistemologies and ethics of disability in the Global South;
Traditional methodologies of knowing, classifying, and treating disabilities;
Disability, religion and ontologies;
Disability and witchcraft accusations;
Disability and gender;
Alternative explanations to disability and human rights;
Disability economy: money, miracle, and marginalization;
African verbal arts and the disability narrative: jokes, proverbs, anecdotes, folktales etc.
Cultural representations of disability (theatre, art, literature, film…);
Socio-cultural barriers to understanding disability in the Global South.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words for a 10 minute presentation and a brief bio should be sent to Charlotte Baker c.baker@lancaster.ac.uk by Monday 28 September 2020 with the subject line: Postgraduate webinar proposal
Selected presenters will be notified by Friday 9 October 2020.
Online Conference,Demystifying Public Health Conditions, 17 June 2020
Programme for Online Conference, Lancaster University:
Public Health and ‘Witchcraft’ Beliefs
10am-2pm GMT, 17 June 2020
Misconceptions behind the causes of public health conditions such as dementia, mental health and autism, as well as disabilities including albinism, are often fuelled by beliefs in ‘witchcraft’.
Such misconceptions are a key factor leading women, children, older persons and those with non-normative bodies to suffer wide-ranging human rights violations.
However, to date, there has been no coordinated response to support front-line practitioners, organizations and policy makers working in this field.
This online conference will bring together key stakeholders to learn about the issues and explore initiatives to demystify public health conditions believed to be caused by ‘witchcraft’.
Presenters include:
Ikponwosa Ero, UN Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by person with albinism
Berrie Holtzhausen, Alzheimers Dementia Namibia
Dr Olatunde Ayinde, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria
Sarah Snow, Medical Assistance Sierra Leone
Mary Penn-Timity, Sierra Leone Autistic Society
Gary Foxcroft, Witchcraft and Human Rights Information Network (WHRIN)
To register, please email event@whrin.org
The conference is co-organized by the Disability and Inclusion Africa Network, the Witchcraft and Human Rights Information Network (WHRIN) and the UN Independent Expert on Albinism.
It is funded by a grant from the UK Research and Innovation Strategic Priorities Fund.
