Upcoming Events
Neurodiversity in the Arts Symposium
The symposium brings together artists, activists, educators, researchers, and students whose work addresses, the intersections and interplay between neurodiversity studies, disability studies, arts, and education.
Introduction
The scope of the call will be for presentations that engage various art forms – such as visual arts, performing arts, dance, and film – as well as different contexts of education, such as primary education, higher education, professional artists’ education and public pedagogy.
Online event on 15 November 2024
In-person event on 22 November 2024
More information about the symposium
Timothy Smith
timothy.smith@uniarts.fi
Previous Conferences
The 3rd International DSAE Conference, October 7-9th, 2021
The conference built on the previous two conferences, held in Helsinki (2017), and in Philadelphia (2019). The biannually organized conference was an online event in 2021, continueed to interest the participants from the previous conferences as well as new audiences. The conference followed the ideology of the mission of the DSAE network, understanding disability as a cultural identity, an orientation to life that brings variation, diversity and richness to the disabled and non-disabled in culture, society, and to individuals.
Conference Committee Members: Mira Kallio-Tavin, Timothy Smith, Jeremy Johnson, Karen Keifer-Boyd, Alice Wexler, Jennifer (Eisenhauer) Richardson, Alexandra Allen, Kelly Gross, Claire Penketh, Min Gu, Samia ElSheik, Christiana Afrikaner, Sahar Khalil, Mikko Koivisto, Lauren Stichter
Archived web pages: https://web.archive.org/web/20220710033524/https://www.dsae2021.com/
Co-Organizers:
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture
University of Nebraska at Omaha | College of Communication, Fine Arts and Media
Penn State University College of Arts and Architecture | School of Visual Arts
The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences
Northern Illinois University
Africa Arts Society
Sub-Saharan Africa Society for Education Through Arts
Endorsed by International Society for Education through Art, InSEA
The 2nd International Conference on Disability Studies, Arts & Education
was hosted in Philadelphia (United States) at Moore College of Art & Design from October 3rd to 5th, 2019. The conference brought together researchers, students, artists, art educators, and members of the disability community who share an interest in, or whose work addresses, the intersections and interplay between critical disability studies, arts, and education. More information on the conference can be found at the archived web pages:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220121050518/https://www.dsae2019.com/
2019 Conference Committee Members: Lauren Stichter (conference chair), Mira Kallio-Tavin, Amanda Newman-Godfrey, Rhoda Bernard, Jeremy Johnson, Juli Dorff, Veronica Hicks-Daley, Jenna Gabriel, Elizabeth Clay and Samantha Varian.
The 1st International DSAE Conference
was held on September 28th and 29th, 2017 at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Helsinki, Finland. It brought together researchers, students, artists, art educators, and members of the disability and crip art communities who shared an interest in, or whose work addressed, the intersections and interplay between critical disability studies, arts, and education. The scope of the conference comprised various art forms, such as visual arts, performing arts, dance, and film, as well as different contexts of education, such as primary education, higher education, professional artists’ education and public pedagogy. The members of the organizing committee were: Mira Kallio-Tavin, John Derby, and Mikko Koivisto.
Archived web pages: https://web.archive.org/web/20180923122146/http://taide.aalto.fi/en/research/disability_studies/