Centre for the Study of Social Systems, JawaharlaL Nehru university organising a International Conference on Disability studies in India: Reflection on future. This international conference is aimed to examine the factors behind slow beginnings and institutionalization of disability studies in the Indian context, compare it with specific disability studies programmes in the West and reflect on its possibilities in the future.
In India and much of South Asia, disability is largely seen as a product of cultural impediments such as beliefs and stereotypes as well as structural barriers like poverty, lack of development, illiteracy, unemployment and caste, class and gender asymmetry. The meaning of disability in India is embedded in this basic struggle for survival and cultural understanding.
This conference attempts to arrive at a state of art review of disability studies in India through critical engagement in interdisciplinary perspectives.
Date:6-7 February 2015, at Convention Centre, JNU
The Themes of the Disability Conference are :
- Disability in Academia
- Disability and Social Exclusion
- Disability and Field Research
- Disability in the context of Development
- Disability and Gender
- Disability and Law