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The 9th Helen Keller World Conference, the first to be held in Africa, is due to take place in Uganda from October 22nd to 27th 2009 at Speak Resort Munyonyo.
Helen Keller World Conference is an international event held after every five years. It was last held in Finland in 2004. After the one in Uganda this year, the subsequent Helen Keller conference will take place in Japan in 2014.
The conference is used as a platform for discussing issues concerning the deaf and the blind as a critical agenda in development and human rights.
Helen Keller (1880-1968) was an American book author, activist, university lecturer and a celebrated poet. She was the first blind and deaf person to graduate from a college. The Minister of State for Disabled and Elderly, Sulaiman Madada says the conference is held to commemorate the good work Keller did for Persons with Disabilities.
The theme of the conference is “convention of the rights of persons with disabilities, changing the lives of the deaf and blind.”
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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