The Birkbeck Centre for Medical Humanities invites you to a book launch with wine reception for Disabled Children's Childhood Studies: Critical Approaches in a Global Context edited by Tillie Curran and Katherine Runswick-Cole.
This is just a quick reminder about 5th Annual International Conference ***Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane***: More Questions of the Human to be held in July, 2014 in Sheffield, UK.
More info (including how to book a place) can be found here.
It is always a great few days of support and discussion – we have amazing keynotes lined up and a fascinating theme. What's not to love??
This post offers an opportunity to teach within the Department for Education, Children and Inclusion, contributing to curriculum development and delivery. You will teach on our BA (Hons) Education Studies course as well as other related courses; designing and delivering innovative, high quality and challenging learning experiences, which equip your students with the skills, knowledge and attributes required by employers.
We take a holistic approach to the student experience, aligning our teaching with high-quality learning support and the very best of facilities. Building on this approach you will contribute to curriculum development and delivery, and other forms of scholarly activity as part of a multi-disciplinary team. You will teach and support students by taking a learner centred approach in line with the University's Learning, Teaching and Assessment Strategy.
We want to hear from you if you are vitally engaged with your subject areas through research, scholarship, or professional practice, and capable of generating that enthusiasm and commitment in our students. You should have a post graduate qualification in a relevant discipline, alongside well developed and current knowledge and understanding of critical, practical and theoretical issues relevant to Education Studies. You will also need the organisational skills to manage conflicting demands and meet deadlines.
Our employment package includes generous holiday entitlements, pension scheme and other staff benefits such as wellbeing initiatives, child care vouchers, development and training courses and assorted staff discounts.
Non-EU Nationals please note: we welcome applications from non-EEA applicants. However, we have a legal responsibility to ensure that all employees are entitled to live and work in the UK. Before applying please check whether you would be eligible to work in the UK under the points-based system by using the UKBA points-based calculator. For further information please visit the UK Border Agency website. If you will need a Tier 2 Certificate of Sponsorship, contact us before applying to check whether we should be able to issue one if you're appointed.
Further information and application forms are available by telephone 0114 225 3950 or email recruitment@shu.ac.uk. (Please quote reference: DS 537/13).
This conference is organised by the University of Sheffield, Manchester Metropolitan University, Sheffield Hallam University, University of Chester, the University of Toronto in association with the White Rose Studies of Ableism Research collaboration.
To what extent is 'the human' a desirable or problematic category?
In what ways do normative understandings underpin 'universal' notions of children's humanity?
What does it mean to be post-human?
In these times of technological and human enmeshment does it make more sense to talk of the post-human than the outdated category of human?
Do we need to hang on to notions of de-humanisation as powerful political statements?
What do post-human politics resemble?
How do queer, dis/ability, postcolonial analyses evoke different or alternative notions of the human?
How might we (not) want to resist, revise and shape notions of the human?
Is the human worth fighting for?
To what extent is the human an ableist fiction?
To what extent are queers and crips nightmare characters to the narratives of humanity?
Presenters will be informed of acceptance by 1st May 2014. To secure a place in the conference programme, presenters should have booked a place by 30th May 2014. Keynotes will be announced before November 2013. In the spirit of an eco-friendly conference, registered delegates will be sent information electronically. Details of accommodation near the venue will also be sent to delegates.
While the conference is FREE, we have secured funding for lunch and refreshments. Please let us know if you have any dietary requirements so we can make the catering team aware of delegate requirements.
* Dan Goodley (UoS); Nick Hodge (SHU); Rebecca Mallett (SHU); Cassie Ogden (Univ of Chester); Katherine Runswick-Cole (MMU); Jenny Slater (SHU).