Wednesday 3rd July
3.00
Check-in begins at the Marriott Courtyard Hotel, Decatur, GA
Thursday 4th July
8.30-9.00 Continental Breakfast
9.00-9.30 Welcome: Chris Mounsey
This and all sessions will be in the
Conference Suite (Henry Oliver F)
9.30-11.00 Panel Session 1: The Early
History of Disability
Chair: Madeline Sutherland-Meier, University of Texas at Austin
Adleen Crapo, University of Toronto, Exemplary Embodiment: Cervantes, Milton, andClassical Culture |
Wendy Turner, Augusta State University, Medieval Mental Health: An Overview |
Jamie Kinsley, Auburn University, Religious Poetry and the Voice of Chronic Pain in Bannerman’s ‘Ode III: To Pain’: Implications for Eighteenth-Century Disability Studies |
11.00 – 11.15 Break
11.15-12.30 Plenary Session 1:
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University
Disability Things
12.30-2.30 Lunch
2.30-4.00 Panel Session 2: Disabling Science
Chair: Miriam Wallace, New College of Florida
Claire Laville, Emory University, Apart from Experience: In Gertrude Stein’s Laboratory Stan Booth, University of Winchester, Paralysis: From Care to Cure |
Aimi Hamraie, Emory University, Universal Design: Redefining the Range |
4.00-4.30 Break
4.30-6.00 Panel Session 3: Keywords:
Towards a Critical Vocabulary of Disability Studies
Chair: Adam Newman, Emory University
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University, Keywords: Not an Encyclopedia |
Benjamin Reiss, Emory University, Keyword: Disability |
David Serlin, University of California, San Diego, Representing Disability Studies |
Friday 5th July
8.30-9.30 Continental Breakfast
9.30-11.00 Panel Session 4: Body
Shape
Chair: Jason Farr, University of California – San Diego
Paul Kelleher, Emory University, Deformity: Moral and Corporeal
Miriam Wallace, New College of Florida, Oration and the Awkward Body: Satirizing Speakers from 1750–1790
Susanne Hamscha, University of Goettingen, Germany, Crip Aesthetics: Failure, Negativity, and the Freakish Body |
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11.00 – 11.15 Break
11.15-12.30 Plenary Session 2:
Michael Davidson, University of
California, San Diego
The Rage of Caliban: Missing Bodies in Modernist Aesthetics
12.30-2.30 Lunch
2.30 – 4.00 Panel Session 5: Nineteenth-Century
Disability
Chair:
Corey Goergen, Emory University, “Who am I! only a Freke!”: Contagious Monstrosity in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda |
Jill Summerville, Ohio State University, Bitter Weeds and Rue: Physical Desire and Desirability in Elizabeth Barrett |
Clare Walker-Gore, Cambridge University, “Am I Really Deformed?”: Disability as a Social Construct in the Novels of Dinah Mulock Craik |
4.00 – 4.30 Break
4.30 – 6.00 Panel Session 6: Iberia
Chair:
Eduardo Gregori, University Corporeality, Subjectivity and the Avant-Garde: Ramón Gómez de la Serna |
Janet Ravenscroft, Independent Scholar, Picturing Difference in Early Modern Spain |
Madeline Sutherland-Meier, University of Texas at Austin, Toward a History of the Blind in Spain |
Saturday 6th July
8.30-9.30 Continental Breakfast
9.30 – 11.00 Panel Session 7: Contemporary
Versions of Disability
Chair:
Chris Mounsey, University of Winchester, VariAbility: Towards a Discourse of the Body
Sian Bride, University of Winchester, Embodying the Abnormal: Exploring the Legality and Sexuality of Difference/ Disability Through the Tattooed Body |
Amanda Cachia, University of California, The Abject Disabled Misplaced in Contemporary Art |
11.00 – 11.15 Break
11.15-12.30 Plenary Session 3: Helen Deutsch,
University of California, Los Angeles
Disability, Irony, Untimeliness: The Lateness of Jonathan Swift
12.30 – 2.30 Lunch
2.30 – 4.00 Panel Session 8: Defining Disability
Chair:
Victoria Brown, Northumbria University, “Rendered incapable of use”: Competing Definitions of Disability Amongst Coal Miners in the North East of England, 1862-1936 |
Jason Farr, University of California – San Diego, Seeing Sound: Deafness in the Early Eighteenth Century |
Jared Richman, Colorado College, Disabling Authority: Stutterance and Royal Elocution in Eighteenth-Century Britain |
4.00 – 4.15 Break
4.15 – 5.45 Panel Session 9: American
Disability
Chair:
George Gordon-Smith, Emory University, Disability and the Middle Passage: Ambiguous Impairment and the Production of Dependence on the Slave Ship |
Laurel Daen, College of William & Mary, The Dis/Abilities of Martha Ann Honeywell: A Case Study in Self-Presentation in Antebellum America |
Adam Newman, Emory University, Rolling Through the Holy City on a Goat-Cart: Race, Mobility, and the Disabled Black Flâneur in Dubose Heyward’s Porgy |
5:45-6.00 Closing Remarks