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Call for Papers for a Panel on Speaking in Two Voices: Academics Parenting Children with Disabilities at the 45th Annual Convention Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

April 3-6, 2014 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

The 45th Annual Convention will feature approximately 350 sessions, as well as dynamic speakers and cultural events. Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.

Abstract Deadline: September 30, 2013

Please include with your abstract:

• Name and Affiliation
• Email address

• A/V requirements ($10 handling fee with registration per person; two person per panel minimum for Media Projector)

Speaking in Two Voices: Academics Parenting Children with Disabilities

This panel seeks papers discussing the unique challenges of parenting children with disabilities while working in academia, and particularly, the effect this experience has on teaching, scholarship, and professional development; both scholarly and autobiographical submissions (and any blending thereof) are welcome. Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words and a brief biography to dotteran@sunysuffolk.edu.

Call for Abstracts: World Hearing Voices Congress

November 20-22, 2013 Melbourne, Australia

Closing date for submissions is 10 July.

Traditionally held in Europe, this extraordinary conference brings together the world’s leading experts on hearing voices and recovery.  It is an event unlike anything else in mental health, filled with hope, innovative thinking and collaboration.  This year the congress will be hosted in Melbourne by Voices Vic, Prahran Mission.

The congress is consumer-led, but is developed by a working group which also includes members from all mental health disciplines, real practice and the latest research, carers & families, and multicultural & indigenous perspectives.

Working together to build our understanding about hearing voices and new ways of thinking about recovery.

For voice hearers, consumers, service users, clinicians, community workers, carers and family, researchers and students.

Three days of new ideas, collaborative conversations, innovative research and practice, and stories of hope and creativity.

We are seeking applications for talks, workshops, symposia and posters, based on the congress themes.

The themes for this year's congress have been announced:

1. Madness has meaning

2. Inviting curiosity about voices

3. A new era in leadership by those with lived experience

4. New practice and research for working with voices

5. Opening new doors for families and carers of voice hearers