[csaa-forum] Conference at Curtin: Disability, Media, and Human Rights: Policy, Practice, Performance

[Baden Offord]

Disability, Media, and Human Rights: Policy, Practice, Performance


The Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (GADIM) and Curtin University in Perth, Australia, are hosting a conference 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. April 19-20, 2018 at Curtin University on . The conference is free and open to all. Supported by the Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University.


http://media-dis-n-dat.blogspot.com.au/2018/04/gadim-curtin-university-in-australia.html


The conference is informed by Article 8 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which  affirms that the global disability community’s access to the media is a human right, as well as the way public attitudes towards people with disability are shaped. However, for people with disability, access to the media can be fraught with technological road-blocks, is punctuated by a lack of functional and reflexive representations, and perpetuates clichés about the creativity and consciousness of people with disability.


This conference is an investigation of three nodes of intersection between disability and the media:

Policy: Human rights, advocacy and access regarding media.

Practice: Making media as a person with a disability. Making media for people with disabilities.

Performance: Representations of disability in the media.


Access to media is a human right, and the conference explores how government, policy makers and advocacy groups can ensure equitable and just access for people with disability to the media landscape in all its avenues.


Media makers with a disability and those who may make media with a disability consciousness will present at the conference on topics including: inclusive advertising, blogging, YouTube activism, community media, and gaming. DADAA digital arts will present a session about its community engagement focus on arts and disability.


Speakers at the conference will include:

Beth Haller, Co-founder, Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (GADIM) and author of Representing Disability in an Ableist World

Katie Ellis – Curtin University and author of Disability Media Work: Opportunities and Obstacles

Robyn Lambird – Blogger, model, YouTube celebrity, My Trex Life

Angel Dixon - Model, disability advocate, blogger, designer

ShawnBurns – Disability and media researcher and journalism lecturer at University of Wollongong


A film screening of the documentary “Defiant Lives,” which tells the story of the rise and fight of the disability rights movement in the United States, Britain and Australia, will be at 3 p.m. Friday April 20, followed by a panel discussion.


Although the conference is free, please register via Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/disability-media-and-human-rights-policy-practice-performance-tickets-44626681606


For questions, contact: katie.ellis at curtin.edu.au


Professor Baden Offord

Director | Dr Haruhisa Handa Chair of Human Rights Education
Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights
Centre for Human Rights Education
School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
Faculty of Humanities

Curtin University
T: | +61 8 9266 7186
E: | baden.offord at curtin.edu.au
W|http://humanrights.curtin.edu.au
CRICOS Provider Code 00301J (WA).

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