Call for Papers

Being (In)Visible: Representations of Disability and Ableism in Popular Culture

Student Conference (Jan 16-17, 2025)

This conference will be organized by Ayishat Aluko, Jill Reuter, and Samira Schwarz, who are all M.A. students of American Studies at JGU’s Obama Institute. The conference is funded by the Gutenberg Lehrkolleg and the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies. The organizers invite contributions from Master’s students, early stage PhD students and advanced Bachelor’s students of all fields related to disability studies.

For further details, please take a closer look at the Call for Papers.

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted along with a 100-word biography to disabilities.studentconference@gmail.com by 15 September 2024. Selected participants can expect to be notified by the end of September 2024.

For further information or questions please contact Ayishat Aluko (she/her).

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