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This page consolidates all We Can Do announcements for conferences, events, calls for papers, and training opportunities in one place. I try to update this page every few weeks as time permits. Follow the relevant link to read further details about the events that interest you. If this page has not been updated for a few days, check the recent archives (right-hand navigation bar) for the most recent items. Or subscribe to We Can Do to learn about new announcements within hours after they are posted.
This page updated through 14 April 2008
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International Conferences and Events
Looking for a conference to attend? Here are a few upcoming events:
April 2008; May 2008; August 2008; September 2008; November 2008; July 2010; Funding for conference participation from developing nations
- The Center for Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities is holding an International Seminar on the Implications of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - with Special Focus on Disability in Development in Helsinki, Finland, May 20-21 2008.
- The Conference on the International Convention on the Rights of Persons on Disabilities will be held in Ethiopia in May 2008.
- The i-CREATE International Conference on Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology will be held in Thailand in May 2008.
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- The 21st World Congress of Rehabilitation International will meet in Quebec in August 2008.
- The International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication conference will be held in Montreal, Canada, in August 2008.
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- The Global Youth Enterprise Conference on youth entrepreneurship and livelihood development will meet September 15-16, 2008. A call for session proposals is open until April 4, 2008. Exhibitors are invited to reserve tables until July 31, 2008 (cheaper if before April 18, 2008).
- The International Conference on Social Science Research Methodologies will meet in South Africa in September 2008. A Call for Paper/Presentation Abstracts is open until February 2008.
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November 2008
The Association on Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)’s International Forum on Women’s Rights and Development will be held in Cape Town, South Africa in November 2008. A call for proposals is open until January 28, 2008.
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Funding for Conference Participation from Developing Nations
Need funding to attend conferences? Be aware that available funding will be limited and cannot help everyone. Each funding source has its own criteria for determining who is or isn’t eligible for possible funding and for what purposes, so read carefully. Information at http://wecando.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/funding-for-conference-participation-from-developing-nations/
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Call for Papers (for Conferences, Journals, Other)
Current or on-going “call for papers” are listed here.
- Dr. Kishor Bhanushali from India is seeking for articles for an edited volume entitled “Community Based Rehabilitation: Concept and Cases”
- The Global Youth Enterprise Conference on youth entrepreneurship and livelihood development will meet September 15-16, 2008. A call for session proposals is open until April 4, 2008. Exhibitors are invited to reserve tables until July 31, 2008 (cheaper if before April 18, 2008).
- The International Congress on Education for the Deaf (ICED) will be held July 18-22, 2010. The conference organizers are interested in hearing from people who may wish to submit a paper or a poster or who wish to exhibit at the conference.
- A Call for papers for the International Conference on Social Science Research Methodologies is open until February 2008. The conference itself will be in September 2008.
- Authors are needed to Write book chapters for a book to be entitled, “Post-Conflict Rehabilitation: Creating a Trauma Membrane for Individuals and Communities and Restructuring Lives after Trauma”.
- The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal welcomes submissions from authors around the world; this journal publishes four times a year.
- If you have ever written a paper about the World Bank for a class or for a dissertation during your post-secondary education, then you can share your university papers on the World Bank.
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Education and Training Opportunities
- A new International Diploma in Mental Health Law and Human Rights has been launched; the first one-year training program will start in Pune, India in October 2008. The application deadline to enter the first class is June 15, 2008.
- Learn how to Train the Trainer in Community Based Rehabilitation, August 25 to September 5, 2008. The training will be conducted in the Netherlands.
- An international deaf youth leadership training camp will be held in Indonesia 22-27 June 2008; the application deadline is April 15.
- A youth leadership training program will bring a group of US citizens with disabilities to Costa Rica June 27 to July 12, 2008. The application deadline is March 28, 2008.
- Several short courses in human rights are available, in locations around the world. Application deadlines vary.
- Training is available in planning and managing Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) programs; the training will take place in Bangalore, India, April 7 to 17, 2008.
- The organization UN Watch is offering a working fellowship to strong writers with an interest in international issues; the application deadline is April 1, 2008, and the fellowship placement begins September 1, 2008.
- Training in leadership and organizational capacity is available for disabled leaders in the Asian Pacific region; the application deadline is February 10, 2008; the training will be April 25-26, 2008, in Malaysia.
- Mobility International USA (MIUSA) is holding its 4th International Women’s Institute on Leadership and Disability for women with disabilities from developing countries around the world, August 12 to September 2, 2008.
- The organization “Enablement” in the Netherlands will be offering two training courses in Community Based Rehabilitation: a two-week program in August 2008 for people learning how to train staff in CBR; and a four-week program in September and October in Management of Disability and Rehabilitation.
- Study human rights at Central European University, for grassroots activists for human rights involved with a local non-government organization (NGO), or for lawyers with an interest in human rights.
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Jobs, Internships, and Volunteer Opportunities
We Can Do currently receives only a few announcements for jobs, internships, and volunteer opportunities relevant for people who wish to work with, or on behalf of, people with disabilities in developing countries. Usually the deadlines for these pass by quickly. If there are any current openings, they will be listed here. You also may wish to check the archives (see right-hand navigation bar) for more recent announcements or subscribe to We Can Do so you can receive notification within hours after any new post goes up at We Can Do.
- The Disability Rights Fund is seeking a Program Officer; the application deadline is April 15, 2008. Someone able/willing to work in Boston, Mass., USA is preferred, but telecommuting may be a possibility.
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Announce YOUR event or training opportunity
If you are aware of an upcoming conference, on-line forum, or other event; or call for papers (for conferences, journals, book chapters, etc); or education or training opportunity; or a job, internship, or volunteer opportunity, please let me know. You can leave a comment in the comment area below, or you can send me an email at ashettle [at] patriot.net.
Events, call for papers, etc., should be relevant to the concerns of people with disabilities in developing countries. Local or national level events will usually be posted only if located in a developing country. International events generally should have some relevance to people with disabilities in developing countries. Training and educational opportunities should generally either be targeted at people with disabilities from developing countries or should be targeted at professionals who wish to work with them. If you’re not sure if your event or opportunity qualifies, or if you think an exception is warranted, then please do talk with me.
But We Can Do is not just meant to be a board for posting announcements. Please do see my Wish list for written materials and resources for other things I would like to be able to publish here. I’m especially interested in pragmatic resources that can be put to immediate use in the field to help people with disabilities living in poverty in developing countries. For example, best-practice (and failed-practice) case studies of projects gone well (or gone poorly); toolkits and training kits; checklists that offer guidance on disability inclusion; etc.
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Nothing about the upcoming DeafRead conference?
DT
24 December 2007
DT, to be honest, I had not yet heard of the deafread conf, so if you truly feel it is appropriate to the goals of We Can Do, please do enlighten me.
But to clarify the purpose of We Can Do (which you can also learn about by clicking on “About We Can Do” and Why We Can Do” in the top navigation bar), this blog is focused on disability and INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT — meaning it focuses on concerns related to Deaf and disabled people in DEVELOPING (not industrialized) countries, and generally on issues related to fighting poverty, human rights, education, etc. But with sensitivity to the fact that certain challenges are unique to, or greater and immensely more complex in, developing countries. (For example, in some countries, if you want to ensure access to interpreting services in university classrooms, you first need to have deaf people in primary school. Then secondary school. Then graduating from secondary school. Because there’s no point in having interpreters at university if there are no deaf students ready to use them. And you need to have sign language interpreters in the country. Which means training them. Which means having people with the right skills to train them. Including of course deaf adults. Which, oh, means they need a basic education first to help prepare them for training others. Which means you need more deaf children being allowed to attend primary school again … Which asides from all the usual deaf-related challenges of helping parents and teachers recognize the true potential of a deaf child may also involve installing gender segregated bathrooms so that menustrating girls need not allow embarassment to keep them at home for days each month, or helping families gain easier access to clean water so children can spend time going to school and studying, not fetching water.
In other words, I tend to leave out conferences that seem primarily geared to the needs and interests of middle class people in industrialized conferences. There are already plenty of those around, and plenty of avenues for advertising or finding them. But not as many conferences geared toward the needs of people from developing countries.
Andrea Shettle, MSW
24 December 2007
paper presentation and conferences
giftson
9 January 2008
The International Conference for the Division
on Career Development and Transition (DCDT) a
Subdivision of the Council for Exceptional
Children (CEC) will hold their conference in
late October, 2009 in Savannah, GA USA.
http://www.gacec.org
As Georgia DCDT State PresidentI welcome all
to submit papers and/or attend.
Marcia Boone Atlanta, Georgia
Marcia Boone
1 April 2008
i like this site
illiasu faisal migah
18 April 2008
I’m also disabeld from my one leg. Can I get a job with your help? I’m an Auto cad Draftsman.
Zafar Mehmood
26 April 2008