From dawnalee8 at gmail.com Wed Mar 18 14:03:36 2009 From: dawnalee8 at gmail.com (dawnalee8) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:03:36 -0700 Subject: [Disability_arts] Extended: Nominations for the 1st Annual CDSA-ACEI Tanis Doe Award for Canadian Disability Study and Culture In-Reply-To: <1324eaa0903181102n2801d19en8985f06c10f56a74@mail.gmail.com> References: <1324eaa0903181102n2801d19en8985f06c10f56a74@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1324eaa0903181103v79db3a75u5506578f4fbd4749@mail.gmail.com> (Apologies for not being able to provide a French version) The deadline for nominating someone for the 1st Annual CDSA-ACEI Tanis Doe Award for Canadian Disability Study and Culture has been extended to 4:00pm EST Friday April 10, 2009. Named for the activist and professor Tanis Doe, who died in 2004, the award will honour an individual who dares to "speak the unspeakable" in advancing the study and culture of disability, and who has enriched the lives of Canadians with disabilities, through research, teaching, or activism. Letters of Nomination should be sent as an email attachment in MS Word format to cdsa.acei at gmail.com. Criteria is either a Canadian or a Permanent Resident who works in Canada. Self-nominations are accepted. Letters of Nomination should be 1 to 3 pages in length and include: 1. Name, affiliation, phone number, complete mailing address, and email address of the nominee. 2. Name and contact information for the person making the nomination. 3. The research, teaching, or advocacy achievement or achievements of the nominee that that merit consideration for this award. 4. A brief biographical sketch of the nominee. Deadline for nominations is 4:00pm EST Friday April 10, 2009. The winner of the 2009 Tanis Doe Award will be acknowledged at the 2009 CDSA-ACEI conference and will receive a commemorative plaque plus $100 (Canadian dollars). Any individual can submit a nomination, but an individual may only submit one nomination in any award-cycle year. Sincerely, The CDSA-ACEI Executive Board =============== Dawna Lee Rumball, Doctoral Student President-Elect, Canadian Disability Studies Association / Association Canadienne des ?tudes sur l'Incapacit? Department of Educational Studies Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia 2125 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4 Email: dawnalee at interchange.ubc.ca Web-site: http://www.cdsa-acei.ca/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: