<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Event: Disability Communication and Media Virtual Conference, Zoom, 5 Feb & 12 Feb 2025</span></b></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Disability Communication and Media Virtual Conference</span></b></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">5 February 2025 (Wed), 9:30AM to 1:30PM AEDT </span></b><u><span style="font-size: 11pt;">AND</span></u><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">12 February 2025 (Wed), 6PM to 9PM AEDT (UTC +11) </span></b></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Online only (Zoom)</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">CART provided </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Please join us for a free, virtual-only, two day conference on </span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Disability Communication and Media </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">on 5 February 2025, 0930 to 1330 AEDT <b>AND</b> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">12 February 2025, 1800 to 2100 AEDT. CART will be provided. </span></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br></span></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This is organized as part of the disability communication and media focus we are trying to grow at the International Communication Association. </span></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This conference features a series of presentations that consider the intersections of disability, media, and communication </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">across mediums, contexts, and geographies. It draws attention to the complex dynamics that emerge when</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> disability meets digital spaces, services, and academia, as well as considerations of normality, representation, and meaning-making.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">If you are interested in this event, feel free to register at the following link: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/61uzCwV1vMfRp8PERuVfPSJkMk4?domain=ntu-sg.zoom.us" style="color: blue;">https://ntu-sg.zoom.us/meeting/register/kooFlAjJTXiwER7TMZsO-g</a></span></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Detailed conference schedule provided after registration and at the following link: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/xmKNCxngwOfQOMB5QfvhgSy1K-p?domain=tinyurl.com" style="color: blue;">https://tinyurl.com/disabilitycommunication</a> (or see below)</span></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Organizers:</span></p><ul type="disc" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Kuansong Victor ZHUANG (NTU)</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Gerard GOGGIN (Western Sydney U)</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Katie ELLIS (Curtin U)</span></li><li style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Wenqi TAN (U Sydney)</span></li></ul><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font face="Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font face="Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 32px; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><u><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">5 February 2025 Wednesday: DAY ONE<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 32px; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">0930–1000 </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(AEDT: UTC+11):<b> Opening Remarks<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 32px; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1000–1100 </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(AEDT: UTC+11): <b>Panel 1 — Disability in Digital Spaces<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="624" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-caps: normal; border-collapse: collapse; border: medium;"><tbody><tr style="height: 25.75pt;"><td width="343" valign="top" style="width: 257.05pt; border: 1pt solid black; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 25.75pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Building Microworlds for Difference on an Online Platform for Disability and Activist Arts<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="137" valign="top" style="width: 102.95pt; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: black black black currentcolor; border-image: none; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 25.75pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Elisabeth Harrison, Lilith Lee, Carla Rice<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="144" valign="top" style="width: 108pt; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: black black black currentcolor; border-image: none; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 25.75pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">EST: UTC-5 (1800)<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 25.75pt;"><td width="343" valign="top" style="width: 257.05pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: currentcolor black black; border-image: none; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 25.75pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Crip Digital Intimacies: The Social Dynamics of Creating Access through Digital Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="137" valign="top" style="width: 102.95pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: currentcolor black black currentcolor; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 25.75pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Megan A. Johnson, Eliza Chandler, Chelsea Temple Jones, Lisa East<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="144" valign="top" style="width: 108pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: currentcolor black black currentcolor; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 25.75pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">EST: UTC-5 (1800)<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 25.75pt;"><td width="343" valign="top" style="width: 257.05pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: currentcolor black black; border-image: none; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 25.75pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Affirming or ableist? Digital disconnection meets disability media studies<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="137" valign="top" style="width: 102.95pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: currentcolor black black currentcolor; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 25.75pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Alex Beattie & Maggie Shippam<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="144" valign="top" style="width: 108pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: currentcolor black black currentcolor; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 25.75pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">UTC+13 (1400)<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 32px; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 32px; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1100–1120 </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(AEDT: UTC+11)<b>: Break<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 32px; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1120–1220 </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(AEDT: UTC+11): <b>Panel 2 — Disability in Services<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="624" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-caps: normal; border-collapse: collapse; border: medium;"><tbody><tr style="height: 60pt;"><td width="354" valign="top" style="width: 265.5pt; border: 1pt solid black; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 60pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Empathetic communication during a rare genetic diagnosis: exploring a novel communication tool to improve patient-provider communication <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p></td><td width="148" valign="top" style="width: 111pt; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: black black black currentcolor; border-image: none; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 60pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Christina SanInocencio<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="122" valign="top" style="width: 91.5pt; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: black black black currentcolor; border-image: none; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 60pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">EST: UTC-4 (1920)<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 60pt;"><td width="354" valign="top" style="width: 265.5pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: currentcolor black black; border-image: none; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 60pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Leading with lived experience: the politics of disability research. <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="148" valign="top" style="width: 111pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: currentcolor black black currentcolor; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 60pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Vicki Bamford<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="122" valign="top" style="width: 91.5pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: currentcolor black black currentcolor; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 60pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">AEDT: UTC+11<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 60pt;"><td width="354" valign="top" style="width: 265.5pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: currentcolor black black; border-image: none; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 60pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Early research on communication by people with a disability. Four ethnographic studies to design online resources<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="148" valign="top" style="width: 111pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: currentcolor black black currentcolor; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 60pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Patricia Gillard<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="122" valign="top" style="width: 91.5pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: currentcolor black black currentcolor; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 60pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">AEDT: UTC+11<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 32px; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 32px; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1220–1240 </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(AEDT: UTC+11)<b>: Break<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 32px; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1240–1325 </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(AEDT: UTC+11): <b>Panel 3 — Disability and Normality across Domains<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="624" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-caps: normal; border-collapse: collapse; border: medium;"><tbody><tr style="height: 60pt;"><td width="350" valign="top" style="width: 262.5pt; border: 1pt solid black; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 60pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Sex, Disabilities, and Communication: Toward Sex-Positive Theorizing of Sexual Expression<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="134" valign="top" style="width: 100.5pt; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: black black black currentcolor; border-image: none; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 60pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Jimmie Manning<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="140" valign="top" style="width: 105pt; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: black black black currentcolor; border-image: none; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 60pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">PST: UTC-8 (1840)<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 60pt;"><td width="350" valign="top" style="width: 262.5pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: currentcolor black black; border-image: none; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 60pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“Bipolar is my Superpower”: The mediated construction of ableism<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="134" valign="top" style="width: 100.5pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: currentcolor black black currentcolor; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 60pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Miriam Rahali<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="140" valign="top" style="width: 105pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: currentcolor black black currentcolor; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 60pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">PST: UTC-8 (1840)<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 32px; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br>1325-1330 </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(AEDT: UTC+11): <b>Closing<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 32px; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><u><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 32px; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><u><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">12 February 2025 Wednesday: DAY TWO </span></u></b><u><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 32px; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1800–1920 </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(AEDT: UTC+11): <b>Panel 4 — Disability in Academia <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="625" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-caps: normal; border-collapse: collapse; border: medium;"><tbody><tr style="height: 44.5pt;"><td width="349" valign="top" style="width: 262pt; border: 1pt solid black; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 44.5pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Postgraduate Pains: It Hurts Less If I'm the One Who Pushes Myself to "Fit In."<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="136" valign="top" style="width: 101.75pt; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: black black black currentcolor; border-image: none; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 44.5pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Maqymseahe Ninces<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="140" valign="top" style="width: 105pt; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: black black black currentcolor; border-image: none; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 44.5pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">UTC+13 (2000)<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 44.5pt;"><td width="349" valign="top" style="width: 262pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: currentcolor black black; border-image: none; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 44.5pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Cutaway to crip time: Slowing down in the academia of communication discipline<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="136" valign="top" style="width: 101.75pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: currentcolor black black currentcolor; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 44.5pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">M Shuaib Mohamed Haneef<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="140" valign="top" style="width: 105pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: currentcolor black black currentcolor; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 44.5pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">UTC+5:30 (1230)<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 44.5pt;"><td width="349" valign="top" style="width: 262pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: currentcolor black black; border-image: none; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 44.5pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">‘’The highs and lows of doing a practice-based PhD’’<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="136" valign="top" style="width: 101.75pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: currentcolor black black currentcolor; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 44.5pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Emma Astra <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="140" valign="top" style="width: 105pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: currentcolor black black currentcolor; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 44.5pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">UTC+1 (0800)<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 44.5pt;"><td width="349" valign="top" style="width: 262pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: currentcolor black black; border-image: none; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 44.5pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Adapting Quantitative Data Gathering Tools to Accommodate Cognitive Needs: A Case Study in Neurodiversity - ICA<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="136" valign="top" style="width: 101.75pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: currentcolor black black currentcolor; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 44.5pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Cátia Casimiro, Pedro Miguel Fernandes, João Léste, Carla Sousa, Filipe Luz<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="140" valign="top" style="width: 105pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: currentcolor black black currentcolor; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 44.5pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">UTC+1 (0800)<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 32px; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 32px; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1920–1940 </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(AEDT: UTC+11)<b>: Break<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 32px; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1940–2100 </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(AEDT: UTC+11)<b>: Panel 5 — Disability, Representations, and Meaning-making<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="624" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-caps: normal; border-collapse: collapse; border: medium;"><tbody><tr style="height: 41.7pt;"><td width="343" valign="top" style="width: 257.05pt; border: 1pt solid black; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 41.7pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">What role for associations? The Italian context and political dis/ability between platform constraints and community aspirations<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="137" valign="top" style="width: 102.95pt; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: black black black currentcolor; border-image: none; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 41.7pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Fabiana Battisti<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="144" valign="top" style="width: 108pt; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: black black black currentcolor; border-image: none; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 41.7pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">UTC+1 (0940)<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 22.7pt;"><td width="343" valign="top" style="width: 257.05pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: currentcolor black black; border-image: none; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 22.7pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Toward Existential Dismediation: Querying Technologies of the Extraordinary Self<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="137" valign="top" style="width: 102.95pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: currentcolor black black currentcolor; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 22.7pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Amanda Lagerkvist<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="144" valign="top" style="width: 108pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: currentcolor black black currentcolor; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 22.7pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">UTC+2 (1040)<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 22.7pt;"><td width="343" valign="top" style="width: 257.05pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: currentcolor black black; border-image: none; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 22.7pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">From News to Conversation: the role of metaphor and indexicality in the reinforcement of social meanings of disability.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="137" valign="top" style="width: 102.95pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: currentcolor black black currentcolor; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 22.7pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Rod Hermeston<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="144" valign="top" style="width: 108pt; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: currentcolor black black currentcolor; padding: 0cm 2pt; height: 22.7pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">UTC (0840)<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 32px; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 32px; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2100-2110 </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.333336px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(AEDT: UTC+11)<b>: Closing</b></span></p></div></body></html>