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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><B>‘Media & Disability: Future Issues and Research Agenda’<BR>
workshop & book launch <BR>
featuring Professor Beth Haller (Towson University, USA)<BR>
author of <I>Representing Disability in an Abeist World<BR>
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University of Sydney (New Law School Annexe, 346)<BR>
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Co-convened by Professor Gerard Goggin (Sydney) and Dr Katie Ellis (Murdoch)<BR>
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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.<BR>
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Professor Haller’s 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).<BR>
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The workshop will be followed at 5pm by the Australian launch of Professor Haller’s <I>Representing Disability in an Ableist World </I>(<a href="http://pages.towson.edu/bhalle/research.html">http://pages.towson.edu/bhalle/research.html</a>)<BR>
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<B>About the presenter</B>: 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: <a href="http://pages.towson.edu/bhalle/">http://pages.towson.edu/bhalle/</a><BR>
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<B>RSVP are essential for this workshop — please email Gerard Goggin: <a href="gerard.goggin@sydney.edu.au">gerard.goggin@sydney.edu.au</a><BR>
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The <I>Media & Disability </I>workshop is presented by the Department of Media and Communications, School of Letters, Arts and Media, University of Sydney, <a href="http://sydney.edu.au/arts/media_communications/">http://sydney.edu.au/arts/media_communications/</a><BR>
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Gerard Goggin<BR>
Professor of Media and Communications <BR>
Department of Media and Communications<BR>
University of Sydney <BR>
e: <a href="gerard.goggin@sydney.edu.au">gerard.goggin@sydney.edu.au</a><BR>
p: +61 2 9114 1218 <BR>
m: +61 428 66 88 24<BR>
w: <a href="http://sydney.edu.au/arts/media_communications/staff/ggoggin">http://sydney.edu.au/arts/media_communications/staff/ggoggin</a><BR>
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Address: <BR>
Level 2, room 206<BR>
Holme Building (A09a) <BR>
Footbridge terrace entrance<BR>
University of Sydney NSW 2006<BR>
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