Date: 21 Oct, 2019

Date : 21st – 23rd October 2019.
Venue : University of Lucknow, Lucknow University Main Building, University Rd, Babuganj, Hasanganj, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226007.

The proposed conference invites scholars with different disciplinary and methodological interests to investigate ‘disability’ or corporeal and cognitive differences in the Indian contexts by considering the following questions and themes:

• Materially embodied experience of disablement and its literary and cultural representation
• Local ways of knowing and talking about bodies/minds/body-minds
• Institutions and disabled individuals
• Religion, society and disability
• Disability’s intersections with other categories of marginality/ minority
• Narratives of bodily and cognitive difference
• Disability hierarchy (social stratification of different impairment groups)
• Political contours of disability
• Notions of normalcy (are notions of normalcy culturally distinct?)
• Language and rhetoric of disability-related terminology

Abstracts of about 500 words on the above and related topics are invited. Abstracts must be mailed to the conference email id: conference.idsc@gmail.com latest by 5th August 2019. Intimation of the acceptance will be communicated by 20th August 2019. The selected participants are expected to submit their complete papers latest by 20th September 2019. The registration fee for the conference is Rs 2000/-.