[csaa-forum] Prof Beth Haller/'Media & Disability'/USyd/1 Apr, 1.30-5.30pm

[Gerard Goggin]

ŒMedia & Disability: Future Issues and Research Agenda¹
workshop & book launch
featuring Professor Beth Haller (Towson University, USA)
author of Representing Disability in an Abeist World
Friday 1 April, 1.30pm-5.30pm
University of Sydney (New Law School Annexe, 346)

Co-convened by Professor Gerard Goggin (Sydney) and Dr Katie Ellis (Murdoch)

About the workshop: This workshop will provide a first-hand opportunity to
hear about and engage with an the work of an international leader in media
and disability research and practice, Professor Beth Haller.

Professor Haller¹s presentation on her work will be followed by a panel
discussing future issues and research agenda regarding media and disability.
The panel will include: Professor Stephen Tanner (U. of Wollongong): Daphneé
Cook (People with Disability Australia); Dr Anna Hickey-Moody (U. of
Sydney); and Wayne Hawkins (Australian Communication Consumers Action
Network).

The workshop will be followed at 5pm by the Australian launch of Professor
Haller¹s Representing Disability in an Ableist World
(http://pages.towson.edu/bhalle/research.html)

About the presenter: Professor Beth Haller is a pioneer in research on
disability and media. She is Professor of Journalism and New Media,
Department of Mass Communication and Communication Studies, Towson
University. For more information consult: http://pages.towson.edu/bhalle/

RSVP are essential for this workshop ‹ please email Gerard Goggin:
gerard.goggin at sydney.edu.au

The Media & Disability workshop is presented by the Department of Media and
Communications, School of Letters, Arts and Media, University of Sydney,
http://sydney.edu.au/arts/media_communications/

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Gerard Goggin
Professor of Media and Communications
Department of Media and Communications
University of Sydney
e: gerard.goggin at sydney.edu.au
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Address: 
Level 2, room 206
Holme Building (A09a)
Footbridge terrace entrance
University of Sydney NSW 2006

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