[Disability_arts] Extended: Nominations for the 1st Annual CDSA-ACEI Tanis Doe Award for Canadian Disability Study and Culture

[dawnalee8]

 (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


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Dawna Lee Rumball, Doctoral Student
President-Elect, Canadian Disability Studies Association /
     Association Canadienne des Études sur l'Incapacité
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/
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