Re: [AI] Two-dayNational Conferenceon'DisabilityandDisenchantment:NewChallenges and Evolvingdirections'

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:18:24 -0800

I do agree with Harish on this issue and at least the American model works well in this issue. But of course the American model bundles every other form of physical disability with permanent impairment there by denying opportunities to the population which is discriminated and deprived of normal life by the society. Again to emphasize the point that I mentioned a few months a go, 70-75% of the visually challenged persons in the United States are either unemployed or under employed. That's the hypocrisy of the supposedly one of the worlds largest democracies. 

Vetri.
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Hi  Harish bhai,
Technically speaking, we do not have the term as handicapped in Canada anymore. It was long fazed-out because it had a negative conotation and was replaced by the more user-friendly term as disabled. It encompasses all sorts of disabilities and physical disabilities but excludes visual disability or blindness. We are disabled here if we have a physical disability. and visually disabled or visually disadvantaged when we define ourselves as visually unfit. However, the blind are not considered disabled as the advancements in technology has made them more independent. Consequently, the blind are not considered as disabled. 
 Amarjit
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Hi Amarjit
I suppose you are refering to handicap and not disability. I do stand by my statement as disability refers to in this context non functionality of a sense organ. I am not refering to a dictionary definition. 
Harish.
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Hello Harish bhai,
Something related or perhaps unrelated to your statement of below. Blindness in Alberta, Canada, is not, yes, not considered a disability anymore since the late mid 90's for applying for disability pensions. The government says that blindness is just a nuisance and not a disability as such. The blind, as we all know it today and even considering majority of AccessIndians , can very well function in office-related jobs using modern software e.g. TTS, OCRs etc. One can perform clerical, accounting, programming, etc. etc. jobs using these technologies. I recall that the Albertan Government had removed some 1200 or 1800 blind people from its disability payroll and got them enrolled in call centre jobs in the late mid 90s when JAWS gained more popularity and the government started subsidizing its purchase. So, we have to be politically correct as to who is a disabled and what disability means. Sorry as this does not matter much to AccessIndians, but just wanted to add my two cents worth. 
Amarjit
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Hello Vidya
Isn't blindness a disablility? I guess, this is a first conference in a series of it. Maybe in the future, they shall have greater representation from other disabilities. In any case they too should be getting a right place in terms of accomodation at the univercities. 

Finally, they too should take a lead to seek appropriate accomodation.

Harish
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I think you guys should have used the term "blindness" rather than "disability". I fail to see other disabilities being represented here.
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Hi list.
we, JNU visually challenged forum did indeed wanted to give out the invite earlier, but since it is a national seminar organized at the level of an institution like JNU, it took us lot more time to put things in place. hope you understand and appriciate thesituation. we at least those people 
who are based in Delhi can make it to the seminar.
your participation is most valued.
with best regards.


On 2/28/09, Amit Bhatt <[email protected]> wrote:
Sounds good, it seems to be a great conference in order to focus on the new challenges and explore some innovative ideas and directions in our education 
in the Country.
Thank you for showing the huge guts of keeping open invitation for the members to join the event. Only the thing is that it should have been informed little earlier since many people would always like to be benefited by such valuable workshops to be organized. Anyway its a good opportunity 
and I shall endeavor to attend the program either of the days.

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  Hi Access-Indians,
I am happy to inform you all that equal opportunities office at JNU, and JNU-Visually challenged forum are jointly organising a two-day National Conference on 'disability and Disenchantment: New challenges and Evolving directions' on 2nd&3rd march 2009 at Jawaharlal Nehru University Campus. 

I wish to make a special request to all our friends at Delhi to
participate in our Conference on both the days and contribute to this academic event which is going to be unique in Indian higher educational circles. working visually-challenged friends at Delhi can write to our organising team at [email protected] to obtain a special delegation invitation which they can use either to avail a special Casual leave or to 
attend the conference on-duty-leave.
since the sessions in the conference run throughout the day from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM, Lunch and the High-Tea will be taken-care by the University.
for the root map of our University, you can visit http://www.jnu.ac.in or 
write to us at [email protected] for any query.

I feel more than happy to further inform you that some of our
high-profiled Access-Indians, Including our Moderator, are going to make 
focused presentations in our Conference.
you may therefore please go through the complete schedule pasted below and 
find out for yourself!
The National Conference on Disability and Disenchantment: New challenges 
and Evolving directions



Schedule
An event first of its kind in Indian academic circles, the conference will have a multifaceted participation of Renowned Academicians, Young scholars, Administrators and Activists working in the field of disability. Spread across two-days (2nd&3rd March), it is divided into five thematic sessions 
 besides a brief formal inaugural ceremony and the concluding panel
discussion, the details of which are given below:



INAUGURAL SESSION

2nd March (9:30 AM to 11:15 AM) at SSS1 Auditorium JNU Campus.
Chief Guest: Sri; Mani Shankar Aiyyar (Hon.ble Union minister of Panchayat 
raj and youth affairs, Government of India.)
Key note Speaker: Prof. Sukh Dev-Singh Torat (chairperson, University 
Grants Commission.)

Officiating Chair: Prof. B.B. Bhattacharya (Vice-chancellor, JNU.)



DISABILITY, PUBLIC POLICY AND LAW

2nd March (11:30 AM to 1:00 PM) at SSS1 Committee Room JNU Campus.
Officiating Chair: Justice Rajendra Babu (National Human Rights Commission 
India)

Titles and Presenters
1) Global Trends and transformation: International Laws on Disability with special reference to UN-Convention on Persons with disabilities Neredimalli 
Annavaram, Center for the Study of Social systems, School of Social
Sciences, JNU;
2) The Enactment and Implementation of Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of rights and Full-participation) Act 1995 and a way forward Santosh Kumar Rungta, Advocate at Delhi High-court and the long 
serving General secretary of National Federation of the Blind;

3) WORLD PSYCHE AND THE DISABILITY POLICY Dr. Ramesh Kumar Sarene,
Teaching faculty at the Department of political science, Satyavathi college, 
University of Delhi; and
4) To see the invisible: reflections on disability and public policy Dr. Vinod, Teaching Faculty at the Department of Psychology, Lady Sriram 
College, University of Delhi.



DISABILITY, EDUCATION AND CAREER

2nd March (1:45 PM to 3:30 PM) at SSS1 Committee Room JNU Campus.
Officiating Chair: Prof. Abijit Patak, Center for the study of Social 
systems, School of Social Sciences, JNU.

Titles and Presenters
1) Curriculum Development for Higher Education in Disability Studies and Action Co-authored by: Dr. Srilata Juvva Head of The Department, Disability Studies and Dr. Kalyani Talvelkar, Tata Institute of Social 
Sciences, Mumbai;

2)       Career and Capability: Opportunities for Persons with
disabilities Shanti raghavan, Managing Director and Trustee, Enable India 
foundation, Bangalore; and
3) Disability and higher education Dr. Gangatharan, Teaching faculty 
at the History Department, Banaras Hindu University, banaras.



THEORISING DISABILITY

3rd March (9:30 AM to 11:15 AM) at SSS1 Committee Room.)
Officiating Chair: Prof. Gautam, Vice-chancellor, Bhareli University; 

Titles and Presenters

1) Beyond Medical Dogmatism and ConstructivistOrthodoxy: Capability
Framework for Understanding Disability S. Mahesh Panicker, Young Scholar 
and Teaching Faculty, Lady Sriram College, University of delhi;
2) Stigma and Social Disability Dr. Krishna Svami Dara, Teaching Faculty, 
Jamia Milya University, Delhi;
3) DISABILITY, STIGMATISATION AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION: INSIGHTS FROM INDIA Dr. Rambabu, Teaching Faculty, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai; 
and
4) The Metaphysics of Body: implications for Discourse on Disability Prof. Gopal Guru, Teaching faculty, Center for Political studies, School of Social 
sciences, JNU.



DISABILITY,  GENDER AND CIVIL SOCIETY
Officiating Chair: Prof. Janiki Abraham, Chairperson, Center for women 
studies, School of Social sciences, JNU.

Titles and Presenters
1) DUAL BURDEN OF GENDER AND ABLEISM IN THE LIVES OF WOMEN WITH (VISUAL) DISABILITIES IN INDIA Dr. Renu Addlakha, Senior Fellow, Center for women's 
Development studies, Delhi;
2) Disability and Gender: a Constructive Approach Dr. Anita Ghai, teaching 
faculty, Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi;

Women and Disability Preeti Monga, Director, Silver linings;
4) Dissident bodies, demystified nations: a post-colonial reading of disability in the novels of Tony Morrison Dr. Navnit Shethi, Associate 
Professor, Center for English Studies, School of Language,
Literature&Culture studies, JNU;



EQUALITY, ACCESSIBILITY AND TECHNOLOGY

3rd March (2:00 PM to 3:45 PM) at SSS1 Committee Room.
Officiating Chair: Prof. Anand kumar, Center for The study of Social 
Systems, School of Social Sciences, JNU;

Titles and Presenters
1) Copyright & Print Access - Response & Challenge: A Higher Education Case Study Dr. Sam Taraporevala, Head of the Department of Sociology, St. Xaviers College, University of Mumbai and The Director, Xaviers Resource 
Center for Visually-challenged;
2) Times They are Changing George Abraham, Chief Executive Officer, Score 
foundation and founding patron of the Indian Cricket Board for
Visually-challenged; 3) Continued relevance of Braille in India and other developing countries Prof. A.K. Mittal, President, All India Confederation 
of The Blind, and Treasurer, World Blind Union; and
4) Equality through e-Quality: Importance of Technology and Accessibility for the Creation of an Equalizing Environment Harish Kotian, Assistant 
General manager, Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai.



PANEL DISCUSSION

3rd March (4:00 PM to 5:00 PM) at SSS1 Committee Room.

Moderator: Sri; Vivek Sahai, General manager, Northern Railways.

Discussants include: Chief Commissionor, Office of Persons with
disabilities, Chairperson, National Trust for the Welfare of Persons with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation and Multiple Disabilities, and representatives from the office of Union public service Commission, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Ministry of Human resource development 
and Ministry of Women and Child Development.


Looking forward for your estemed presence!

Mr. Annavaram Along with the Organising Team!
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