Disability in an Intersectional Lens
A Conference of Emerging Scholars in Disability Studies
Syracuse University, October 9th, 2010
PROGRAM
8:00am - Opening Remarks
8:15-9:45 - Panel Session 1
Room A: Exploring Intersections: Individuals, Institutions, Identities
“The Myth of Normalcy: One Disabled Woman’s Sixty Year Journey for Acceptance”
Anne K. Gross (Englewood, CO)
“Disability identity: Who needs it?”
Sharon Lamp (University of Illinois at Chicago)
“Is “No Theory of Mind”: a Mindless Theory?: Snapshots of Autistic Community and Culture”
Celest A. Martin (University of Rhode Island)
“Disabling Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) through the 5 A’s of CAM Model”
Maria Guadagnoli-Closs (York University)
“Legitimizing Practices: The Situated and Dialogic ‘Nature’ of Competence”
Lisa Greco Joseph (CUNY)
Room B: Historicizing Disability: Roots of Oppression, Roots of Activism
“From Rehab to Reform: Origins of Activism”
Lindsey Patterson (The Ohio State University)
“Between Emancipation and Oppression- Rudolph Kraemer’s Advocacy and Writings on the Disability Experience during the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany”
Daniel Werges (CUNY)
“Emerging Forms of Governance: The Indian State and Disabled Citizenry”
Vandana Chaudry (University of Illinois at Chicago)
“The limits of legal advocacy on the way to abolition: anti-prison activism and deinstitutionalization in context”
Liat Ben-Moshe (Syracuse University)
10-11:30 – Keynote Address
Main Room: Keynote Address
“The Color of Violence: Towards a Transnational Feminist Disability Studies Perspective”
Nirmala Erevelles, Associate Professor, Social Foundations of Education and Instructional Leadership, Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Technology Studies at the University of Alabama
11:30-12:30 - Lunch
12:30-2 - Panel Session 2
Room A: The Screen, the Stage, the Canvas, the Camera: Disability and the Arts
“A Real Head Turner: Naming the Positive Potential of Staring”
Maria Town (Emory University)
“The Metatheatricality of Mental Illness: “Disability drag” in Middleton and Rowley’s The Changeling”
Lauren Coker (Saint Louis University)
“Perceiving Disability (Studies) or Deficit: Barriers to Inclusion in Diverse Art Settings
Beverly Schieman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Kathleen Nichols (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
“Compulsory Able-bodiedness and Racial Transcendence in James Cameron’s Avatar”
Sara Palmer (Emory University)
Untitled
Jennifer Wilkey (Hope, ME)
Room B: The Colonized Subject: Disability in Transnational, Global Context
“Where charity and love prevail: a discourse analysis of US-funded Christian evangelical disability and development projects in Sub-Saharan Africa”
Denise Nepveux (Syracuse University)
“Disability in Discourses of National Exceptionalism”
Kristin Ahrens (Temple University)
“Hybrid Subjects, Mad Identities: Thinking through transgenerational ‘trauma’, postcoloniality, and constructions of mental disorder for a critical Mad studies”
Louise Tam (University of Toronto)
“Can We Talk about Disability and Class?”
Kate Kaul (Syracuse University)
“Disability Studies in the Age of Globalization”
Tom Jordan (Binghamton University)
2:15-3:45 – Panel Session 3
Room A: Exploring Intersections: Disability, Gender and Sexuality
“Representations of the Body: Sexualized disability in contemporary photography”
Rebecca Miner (Michigan Technological University)
“Introduction to Unconscious “Feminist” Ableism 101: Making Ableist Privilege Visible in a Women’s Studies Classroom”
Tammy Owens (University of Alabama)
“Brave New bodies: Are Alternative and Augmentative Communication Hybrids Feminist”
Andrew Bennett (Syracuse University)
“Sexuality among Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A Study on the Institutional Policies and Practices of Non-Profit Organizations”
Alan S. Martino (St. Lawrence University)
Room B: The Politics of Disability In and Through Education
“Beating the Odds: My Inclusion Journey”
Ravi Knutson (Gustavus Adolphus College)
“Academic Writing and Identity Reconstruction as a Site of Struggles”
Cheonghwa Cheong (University at Albany)
“Cargo Cults in IEP Meetings: Schools’ Blind Adoption of Managerial Practices”
Asha Knutson (University of Minnesota)
Jane Plihal (University of Minnesota)
“Changing Children’s Attitudes Toward Disability through Fiction”
Christie Routel (University of Toledo)
“Teaching Disability and Diversity”
Akemi Nishida (CUNY)
Leslie M. Freeman (Brooklyn, NY)
4-5:30 – Panel Session 4
Room A: Exploring Intersections: Disability, Race, and Identity
“Everyday Monsters: Rejecting a ‘Cure’ for the Threat of the Black Disabled Feminine Subject”
Onyinyechukwu Udegbe (University of Toronto)
“ “I Made Up My Mind to Act Both Deaf and Dumb”: Masquerades of Slave Disability in Antebellum America”
Dea Boster (University of Michigan)
“Blind Like Me: John Howard Griffin, Disability, and the Fluidity of Identity in Modern America”
Jeffrey Brune (Gallaudet University)
Discussant: Michael Rembis (University at Buffalo)
Room B: A Critical Engagement with Care
“How to prevent Personal Assistants from becoming too close for comfort”
Carol Marfisi (Temple University)
Deborah Little (Adelphi University)
Traci Levy (Adelphi University)
“Making care accessible: Personal assistance for disabled people and the politics of language”
Christine Kelly (Carleton University)
“The Paradox of Care”
Patty Douglas (University of Toronto)
