Jump to content, Skip navigation

The Ohio State University



Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion, and Disability
Annual Conference

CALL FOR STUDENT POSTERS
Ninth Annual
Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion & Disability:
Change, Challenge, & Collaboration
April 28 and 29, 2009
Student Poster Session, Tuesday, April 28, 2009
The Ohio State University Columbus Campus

Conference information, past programs, and updates can be found at: http://ada.osu.edu/conferences.htm, To be on the mailing list for the conference, send e-mail to ADA-OSU@osu.edu

Proposals for Student Posters Due March 30, 2009

This year’s theme “Change, Challenge & Collaboration” reflects the critical place in history we occupy.  Since the last conference the United Nations has adopted the Convention on Disability; Congress passed the ADA Amendments Act, a new GI bill with significant support for disabled veterans, and the Higher Education Opportunity Act which includes significant provisions on disability; the Access Board is proposing changes in Section 508; and the Department of Justice is in the final stages of a comprehensive review and update of the regulations for the ADA’s Titles II and III.

Graduate and undergraduate posters are being solicited to represent the broad interdisciplinary approaches to disability at the undergraduate and graduate level.  Submissions may be based on:

  • Class Projects & Papers
  • Independent & Supervised Student Research 
  • Community Service & Applied Problem Solving from Service Learning Classes or student organizations
  • Art & Performance

Our custom is to offer a number of quotes to assist you in describing your work from a fresh perspective:

  • “Disability Studies should serve as an access ramp between the disability community and research universities.”   Paul K. Longmore
  • “For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.”  H.L.  Mencken
  • "Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.”   Justice William J. Brennan
  • “Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious.”   Gordon Gee

Posters can take  a variety of forms:

  • Print material mounted on poster board or display panels or arranged on a table.
  • PowerPoint, web page or video presentation from laptop (10 minute maximum length).
  • Presentation materials must fit on a 3’x6’ table or along 6’ or less of wall space.
  • Presenters must provide their own equipment.

Visit these sites for information on how to present at a poster session:

http://airweb.org/page.asp?page=586

http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/speaking/poster/index.cfm

http://www.plu.edu/~libr/workshops/multimedia/posters.html

Students and teams of students who wish to present a poster display of their project must send the following information to ADA-OSU@osu.edu no later than March 30, 2009.

  • Title.
  • Short Title - 12 word maximum.
  • Description of their proposed poster – 150 word maximum.
  • E-mail address, phone number, and surface mail address of coordinating presenter.
  • As appropriate, university, department, grant, course or student organization affiliation.
  • A letter of support from a faculty member or organization advisor associated with the project.

Submissions will be reviewed as they arrive; selected participants will be notified within 2 weeks of submission. Conference fees will be waived for all accepted presenters.

For more information contact: L. Scott Lissner, ADA Coordinator

ada-osu@osu.edu or 614-292-6207 (voice) or 614-688-8605 (tty)

divider

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS FOR THE 2009 MAIN CONFERENCE'S CONCURRENT SESSIONS IS CURRENTLY CLOSED. Proposals were due November 1, 2008. The  Ninth Annual Multiple Perspectives conference continues the university's efforts to bring together a diverse audience to explore disability as both an individual experience and social reality that cuts across typical divisions of education & employment; scholarship & service; business & government; race, gender & ethnicity.

See above Student Poster Guidelines for information on the 2009 conference.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -- Concurrent Session Presentation Proposal submission is now closed. The information below is provided as a guideline for the 2010 conference. Please check back in July or August, 2009 for deadlines and more specifics on the 2010 conference.

Proposals can be submitted in one of the following ways:

  • By e-mail as an attachment (Word, Word Perfect, TXT, or RTF formats) to ADA-OSU@osu.edu
  • By Fax at 614-688-3665 (FAX)
  • In the mail to:
    University ADA Coordinator's Office
    1849 Cannon Drive
    Columbus, OH 43210.

Proposals must include:

1. Names and (as appropriate) titles and institutions for each presenter. 

2. Contact information (phone, mailing address, and e-mail) if there is more than one presenter please indicate one individual as the lead presenter.

3. Title of Presentation (12 words or less)
4. Short Description     (30 words or less)

5. FULL  DESCRIPTION. In 700 words or less please describe the structure, content, focus and desired outcomes for the presentation using these questions as a guide.

  • What is the format of the presentation (Lecture, Panel, Discussion, Poster*, Performance, Other)?
  • What are your three main goals for the presentation?
  • What will your participants learn?
  • Who is the intended audience (educators, employers, businesses, advocates, students, consumers, researchers, etc.?
  • How familiar should the audience be with the topic (beginner, intermediate, advanced)?

Please Note:
The full conference fees will be waived and lunch provided for presenters of accepted proposals. Presenters are responsible for their own travel and lodging.

*Student Poster sessions proposed by currently enrolled students (graduate & undergraduate) will be accepted through March 30, 2009.

L. Scott Lissner, ADA Coordinator
Office Of The Provost

292-6207(v); 688-8605(tty); 688-3665(fax)
HTTP://ADA.OSU.ED

 

 


If you have difficulty accessing any portions of this website due to incompatibility with adaptive technology, or you have suggestions on how we can make this site more accessible, or you need the information in an alternative format, please contact us at:

L. Scott Lissner, ADA Coordinator
Address: ADA Coordinator's Office, The Ohio State University,
2054 Drake Center, 1849 Cannon Drive,
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: 614-292-6207 (Voice)
614-688-8605 (TTY)
614-688-3665 (Fax)
E-mail: ada-osu@osu.edu

Copyright 2005. Terms of Use: Unless otherwise noted, documents stored on this website (not external links/pages) may be reproduced and distributed in print or electronic format only if offered at no cost to recipients and as long as full credit is give to the ADA Coordinator's Office at The Ohio State University, and as long as this Terms of Use Notice remains intact.

Valid XHTML 1.0!  |  Valid CSS!  |  WAC Approved logo: click to find out more about the WAC.