Society for Disability Studies

Last revised: June 19, 2009

this page provides the schedule for the 2009 22nd annual SDS Conference. Use the links below to jump to a particular day’s schedule. Days are located at heading level 3. Major events such as breakout sessions, round tables, and plenary sessions are located at heading level 4, and individual sessions are located at heading level 5. Session moderators and room numbers are located at heading level 6.

This schedule is final as it appears in the printed program. A few modifications have been made. Use this document as definitive. Additional changes will be posted here as they are available. If you are in a 75-minute panel that has 4 presenters, please be sure to plan on a 15-minute presentation. If you are in a 75-minute panel with 3 presenters, your presentation can be closer to 20 minutes but please be mindful of the time under that circumstance, too. There is one session of 90-minute panels; plan the time you will have accordingly.

Table of contents

• Day 1: June 17
• Day 2: June 18
• Day 3: June 19
• Day 4: June 20

SDS Program 2009

Our Time

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Registration: Satellite Desk – 10:00 AM & ONGOING

AV & Moderator Training: Agave Ballroom – 1:15 to 1:45

Breakout Session I – 2:00 to 3:15 pm

1.1 Neurodiversity: Autism and Disability Culture

ROOM: JOSHUA TREE

Moderator: Frank Wyman

• Presenter: Scott Robertson, Penn State University
• Thinking Spatially, Speaking Visually: Director Robert Wilson Cons Verses with Autistic Poet Christopher Knowles
  
  Presenter: Telory Davies, Missouri State University

1.2 Doing race, doing gender, doing time: Historicizing psychiatric constructions of racial mixity, gender non-conformity, and delinquency

ROOM: Presidio I

Moderator: Rachel Gorman

• Time out: A life narrative approach to ADHD, racialization, and gender non-conformity
  
  Presenter: Rachel Gorman, University of Toronto
• Doing time: Gender, psychiatry, and delinquency in 20th century United States
  
  Presenter: Michael Rembis, University of Arizona
• It’s about time: Rethinking race, gender, and class in a Disability Studies analysis of psychiatric diagnoses
  
  Presenter: Syrus Marcus Ware, University of Toronto

1.3 Law and Disability

ROOM: Presidio II

Moderator: Allison Carey

• The Law Without a Past: Protecting the Future of Disability and the Future Disabled
  
  Presenter: Jessica Roberts, Columbia Law School
• Staff Sense Making of People with Disability in the NSW Criminal Justice System Across Time and Space
  
  Presenter: Phillip Snoyman, University of New South Wales

Breakout Session II – 3:45 to 5:00 pm

2.1 Disability in the Media: Rethinking Our Past, Present, and Future

ROOM: Presidio I

Moderator: Jan MacDougall, University of Toronto

• Finding Order in the Look: Mental Anguish at the University
  
  Presenter: Jan MacDougall, University of Toronto
• WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT!? The culture and history of freaks and the modern unexpected body
  
  Presenter: Samantha Walsh, University of Toronto
• Rethinking the Current Crisis in Graduate Student Mental Health and Illness
  
  Presenter: Katie Aubrecht, University of Toronto

2.2 Global Disability I

ROOM: Presidio II

Moderator: Devva Kasnitz

• Lessons in Cultural Transition and Border Crossings: Conversations on Independent Living in Israel and Palestine
  
  Presenter: Sumi Colligan, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
• Disability Rights Movement in India: Factors Determining the Period of Origin
  
  Presenter: Jagdish Chander, Syracuse University and Delhi
• Achievable Social Contribution of People with Severe Disabilities – EFLY Squad as an Example
  
  Presenter: Arrmien Chou, Taiwan Assistive Technology and Vocational Rehabilitation

2.3 The Children’s Hour

ROOM: JOSHUA TREE

Moderator: Jim Ferris, , University of Toledo

• Presenters: Heather Garrison, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania; Bruce Henderson, Ithaca College; Jim Ferris, University of Toledo

Breakout Session III – 5:30 to 6:45 pm

3.1 Messages from Resistance Movements: Deaf Identity in Chile, Activists Across Generations, and Psycho-Social Disabilities

ROOM: Presidio II

Moderator: Akemi Nishida, The CUNY Graduate Center

• Becoming activists: life stories of disabled disability rights activists from different generations
  
  Presenter: Akemi Nishida, CUNY Graduate Center
• ’Psychiatric’/Psycho-Social Disabilities for Critical Consciousness: Human Costs of ‘Productivity’ and ‘Speed’
  
  Presenter: Carol Moeller, Moravian College

3.2 Cyberspace and Technology

ROOM: JOSHUA TREE

Moderator: Cynthia Wu

• Beyond the Cyborg: A Model of Cybercultural Disability Studies
  
  Presenter: Elizabeth Ellcessor, University of Wisconsin Madison
• From “Cyborg” to “Technotards”: Finding New Positions for Disability in Science and Technology Studies
  
  Presenter: Emily Smith, University of Minnesota

3.3 Childhood and Education

ROOM: Presidio I

Moderator: Susan Baglieri

• Time and Space for Dirty Knees and Flapping Hands: Dis/abled Children, Development, and Deconstruction
  
  Presenters: Dan Goodley, Manchester Metropolitan University; Katherine Runswick-Cole, Manchester Metropolitan University
• Masculinity at the Orthopedic Preschool
  
  Presenter: Elizabeth Wheeler, University of Oregon
• When Students Take Action: A Call for Activist Education
  
  Presenter: Sami Schalk, University of Notre Dame
• The Socio-Political Construction of Learning Disabilities: Revisiting Christine Sleeter’s Theory Two Decades On and Its Implications for Understanding Other “School Based” Disabilities
  
  Presenters: David Connor, Hunter College; Beth Ferri, Syracuse University

7:00 to 9:30 pm

Welcome Reception and Performance (Session 3.4)

Room Turquoise III

• Welcome from SDS President Noam Ostrander
• Announcement of Co-Editors and Editorial Board for Disability Studies Quarterly
• Reception

Performance: Homofactus Reading – Homofactus Reading/Panel:

• Eli Clare, Independent Artist
• Booh Edouardo, Independent Artist
• Leslie Freeman, Independent Artist
• Sassafras Lowrey, Independent Artist
• Margaret Price, Spelman College

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Registration: Satellite Desk – 8:30 & ONGOING

AV & Moderator Training: Agave Ballroom – 8:15 to 8:45

Breakout Session IV – 9:00 to 10:15 am

4.1 Women and Disability

ROOM: JOSHUA TREE

Moderator: Allison Carey

• Women and Alcohol Use: Feminist and Disability Studies Perspectives on Addiction as Illness
  
  Presenter: Sarah Snyder, University of Toronto; Rachel Gorman, University of Toronto
• Genetic Coalitions, Or, Time to Reckon with Choice and Personhood: Disability Rights Meets Reproductive Justice
  
  Presenter: Alison Kafer, Southwestern University
• PMS & PMDD Meet the ADA
  
  Presenter: David Linton, Marymount Manhattan College

4.2 Everyday Narratives I

ROOM: Presidio I

Moderator: Susan Baglieri

• Women with Chronic Pain as Time Travelers
  
  Presenter: James Brennan, The Sage Colleges
• Whose Body Is It, Anyway?
  
  Presenter: Carrie Cox, University of Toronto
• Where’s Your Sign: A Time to Reclaim Disability in Public Policy
  
  Presenter: Andrew B. Bennett, Syracuse University

4.3 Global Disabilities II

ROOM: Presidio II

Moderator: Alberto Guzman

• Mental Health Consumers: It’s Time Disability Studies Embraced (“our”) Ambivalences
  
  Presenter: Felicity Grey, University of Melbourne
• Visibly Hidden: Exploring the Contradictions of Emergent Rights and Persistent Exclusion in Cuenca, Ecuador
  
  Presenter: Nicholas Rattray, University of Arizona
• Cultural perspectives of disability in Nigeria
  
  Presenter: Emmanuel A. Adeoye, University of Ilorin
• Mainstreaming Disability Studies in Policy Making in India
  
  Presenter: Gajendra Karna, Society for Disability and Rehabilitation Studies

Breakout Session V – 10:45 am to 12:00 pm

5.1 Leaving Venus Behind: The New Intersections of Disability, Women, and Sculpture

ROOM: AGAVE BALLROOM

• Re/Formations: Disability, Women, and Sculpture
  
  Presenters: Ann Fox, Davidson College; Jessica Cooley, Davidson College
  
  Discussant: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University

5.2 Time Passing/Histories I

ROOM: JOSHUA TREE

Moderator:

• Quakers and Disability: Theory and Practice in the 19th Century
  
  Presenter: Timothy Lillie, University of Akron
• The Living Past: Deaf Studies, Modernism, and the Politics of Embodied History
  
  Presenter: Rebecca Sanchez, University of Buffalo
• Eugenics and Disability: Historical Memory in Washington State
  
  Presenter: Joanne Woiak, University of Washington

5.3 Philosophical Approaches

ROOM: Presidio II

Moderator: Denise Nepveux

• Foucault and Challenging Behavior
  
  Presenter: Ian Flaherty, University of Sydney
• Fear, Anxiety, and Authentic Understanding of Disability: A Heideggerian Examination
  
  Presenter: Joe Stramondo, Michigan State University
• Meeting with Difference on the Street: Walking with Crutches and Bumping into Others
  
  Presenter: Terri-lynn Langdon, Wilfrid Laurier University

5.4 Disability and Passing

ROOM: Presidio I

Moderator/Discussant: Susan Burch, Smithsonian

• Anne Sullivan Macy and the Act of Passing
  
  Presenter: Kim Nielsen, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
• Darkness Before Black Like Me: How Blindness Taught John Howard Griffin to Change His Stripes
  
  Presenter: Jeffrey Brune, Gallaudet University
• Posts on Passing: A Correspondence Between Deaf Studies and Disability Studies, Deaf Identity and Disability Identity, Ma Bell and BJB
  
  Presenter: Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Ohio State University

Lunch from 12:30 to 2:00 pm

Roundtables (optional) or Networking

5.5 R1: Story Swap

ROOM: Joshua Tree

• “Mom, Do You Remember March 15, 1997?”: Living with the Marvelous Mind of Autism
  
  Presenter: Celest Martin, University of Rhode Island
• We Exist Because They Exist
  
  Presenter: Devi Mucina, University of Ontario
• A Tribute to my Dyslexic Body, and Other Ghostly School Time Tales
  
  Presenter: Dené Granger, Syracuse University

5.6 R2: Dis/ability and Gender Trans/gression: A Roundtable

ROOM: Presidio II

Presenters:

• Leslie Freeman, Goddard College
• Mel Chen, University of California, Berkeley
• Eli Clare, Hinesberg, VT
• Toby MacNutt, University of Vermont
• Booh Edouardo, San Francisco, CA
• Margaret Price, Spelman College

5.7 R3: Podcasting – Bringing Disability Studies to the Masses

ROOM: PRESIDIO I

• Presenter: Russel Vickery

5.8 Panel/discussion for Graduate Students with Disability Studies Faculty

ROOM: TURQUOISE III

Moderator: Dominika Bednarska

• Panelists: Catherine Kudlick, UC Davis; Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University; Rod Michalko, University of Toronto; Alison Kafer, Southwestern University

Breakout Session VI – 2:15 to 3:30 pm

6.1 Disability Culture: Global and Diverse: a Short Course

ROOM: JOSHUA TREE

• Presenter: Steven Brown, University of Hawaii

6.2 Disability, Theatre, Performance Art

ROOM: Presidio I

Moderator: Cynthia Wu

• The Return of Mary Tyrone? Disabled Mamas in Recent American Dramas
  
  Presenter: Ann Fox, Davidson College
• Embodiment, Endurance, and Time: Critical Perspectives on Performance and Disabled Physicality on Stage
  
  Presenter: Rachel Gorman, University of Toronto
• Rehearsal Time, Performance Timing: Issues in Theatre Traning and Practice Between an Abled Director and Performers with Intellectual Disabilities
  
  Presenter: Tony McCaffrey, University of Canterbury
• Discourse in Motion: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Eli Clare’s “The Marrow’s Telling”
  
  Presenter: Danielle Cowley, Syracuse University

Plenary I (Session 6.3) – 4:00 to 5:45 pm

ROOM: Turquoise III

• Black Bike, White Cane: Timely Discoveries of a Special Self
  
  Presenter: Catherine Kudlick, UC Davis
• Repositioning the Lights
  
  Presenter: Kristina Richardson, CUNY Queens College
• Where Are the Disabled Workers? Rethinking Class and Disability
  
  Presenter: Sarah Rose

Thursday: 7:30-9:00 p.m.

A Performance Salon(Session 6.4)

(with some short films as well)

ROOM: Turquoise III

• Eliza Chandler, University of Toronto
• Katherine Cole, University of California, Berkeley
• Jim Ferris, University of Toledo
• Bruce Henderson, Ithaca College
• Laurie Clements Lambeth, Independent Artist
• Celeste Martin, University of Rhode Island

ROOM: Turquoise

Friday, June 19, 2009

Registration: Satellite Desk – 8:30 & ONGOING

AV & Moderator Training: Agave Ballroom – 8:15 to 8:45

Breakout Session VII – 9:00 to 10:15 am

7.1 Disability and Korea

ROOM: Presidio II

Moderator: Allison Carey

• The Conceptualization and Scale Development of Disability Identity
  
  Presenters: Eun Kyoung Shin, Dankook University; Ick Seop Lee, Yonsei University
• The Mediating Effects of Empowerment in the Relation to the Use of Independent Living Services and Community Participation and Employment Among Korean PWDs
  
  Presenter: Han Na Lee, Yonsei University; Seong Yeon Kim, Yonsei University; Ick Seop Lee, Yonsei University
• A Study on the New Model of DRM Based on the Process of Enactment of DDRA in Korea; Focusing on Political, Social, and Ideological Dimension
  
  Presenter: Ick Seop Lee, Yonsei University; Han Na Lee, Yonsei University; Eun Kyoung Shin, Dankook University
• Representation of Disability in South Korean Film “Obaltan” (1961)
  
  Presenter: Chung Wan Woo, Syracuse University

7.2 Disability, Education, and Legislation

ROOM: JOSHUA TREE

Moderator: Alberto Guzman

• University Access, Excellence, and Impact: The Role of Time for College Students with Disabilities
  
  Presenters: Kathleen Rutowski, Arizona State University; Martha Cocchiarella, Arizona State University – Polytechnic Campus
• Intersections of Time, Space, and Disability: The College Experience
  
  Presenter: Katharine Hayward, UCLA

7.3 Disability and Music

ROOM: Presidio I

Moderator: David Mitchell

• Bob Dylan’s Crazy Rhythm (As Told by One Who Knows)
  
  Presenter: Alex Lubet, University of Minnesota
• Single-Handedly: Paul Wittgenstein and the Disability of Inability
  
  Presenter: Blake Howe, The Graduate Center, CUNY
• Is It a “Walk in the Park”? From Aesthetic Nervousness and Ableism into Dancing the Dialogical
  
  Presenter: Leora Amir, California State University of Sacramento

Breakout Session VIII- 10:45 am to 12:00 pm

8.1 It’s Our Time to Reflect and Plan: The Use of Formal and Informal Supports by People with Disabilities

ROOM: Presidio I

Moderator: Nina Slota, Northern State University

• Academic Supports and School Completion for a Sample of Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury or Spinal Cord Injuries
  
  Presenters: Nina Slota and Robin Rosenthal, Northern State University
• Playing Scrabble and Baking French Fries for Independent Living: What Youth Participants Really Think About a Community Living Skills Training Center
  
  Presenter: Zosia Zacks, Maryland Division of Rehabilitation Counseling
• The Tiki House and Technology: Virtual Peer Support for People with Mental Illness
  
  Presenter: Debi Dusseault, Northern State University

8.2 Disability and Postcoloniality: Multiple Approaches

ROOM: Presidio II

Moderator: Amy Vidali

• Global Ethnography, Postcolonial Theory and Disability’s Contemporary Role in Empire
  
  Presenter: Denise M. Nepveux, York University
• Facial Vision and Americanisation: Temporalities of Obstacle Perception in Ved Mehta
  
  Presenter: Hemachandran Karah, University of Cambridge
• Eugenics and Necropolitics: Death, Cure, and Care in Postcolonial Fictions
  
  Presenter: Clare Barker, University of Leeds

8.3 Social Activism: From Past to Future

ROOM: JOSHUA TREE

Moderator: Susan Baglieri

• Our Time to Die?
  
  Presenter: Liz Carr
• Reconciling Identity and Coalition Politics in a Disability Rights Context
  
  Presenter: Doris Fleischer, NJ Institute of Technology
• Time to Re-Position Mothers: Liminal Lives in a Disabling World
  
  Presenter: Katherine Runswick-Cole, Manchester Metropolitan University
• Wrestling with Group Identity: The Future of Disability Activism
  
  Presenter: Christine Kelly, Carleton University

Town Hall (Session 8.4) 12:30 to 2:00 pm

Collaborations with the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL) and other Organizations of Allies and Activist, Academic, and Service Colleagues

ROOM: Turquoise III

• Presenters: Dr. Devva Kasnitz, UC Berkeley
• Katherine Seelman, University of Pittsburgh
• Pamela Block, SUNY Stonybrook

Caucuses 12:30 to 2:00 p.m.

8.5 Queer Caucus

ROOM: Presidio I

Moderator: Alison Kafer

8.6 International Caucus

ROOM: Presidio II

Moderator: Sumi Colligan and Denise Nepveux

8.7 People of Color Caucus

ROOM: Joshua Tree

Moderator: Susan Baglieri

Breakout Session IX – 2:30 to 3:45 pm

9.1 Medicine Meets Disability in the New Age of Epidemics

ROOM: Presidio II

Moderator: Katherine Randle, Mailman School for Public Health

• Silent Epidemic? HIV/AIDS among the Visually-Impaired in Maryland
  
  Presenter: Katherine Randle, Mailman School for Public Health
• Seeing a way ahead: Fighting the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the US Deaf community
  
  Presenter: Leila Monaghan, University of Wyoming
• Double Vision: Disability and Culture in the Deaf HIV epidemic
  
  Presenter: Sylvie Soulier, Deaf AIDS Project

9.2 Literary Narratives

ROOM: JOSHUA TREE

Moderator: Devva Kasnitz

• Theorizing Crip Time
  
  Presenter: Dominika Bednarska, UC Berkeley
• Backward/Forward Time: Queering Progress in “The Poisonwood Bible” and “Life As We Know It”: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child
  
  Presenter: Dilia Narduzzi, McMaster University
• Words and Worlds in Disability Studies and Narrative Theory
  
  Presenter: Nicholas Hetrick, Ohio State University

Breakout Session X – 4:15 to 5:45 pm

10.1 Representing Disability Now: Exploring Disability in Contemporary Media Moments

ROOM: Presidio I

Moderator: Beth Haller, Towson University

• Portrayals of Disabled People at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2008
  
  Presenter: Nicola Martin, Sheffield Hallam University
• Negotiating ‘Normal’: How Notions of U.S. National Identity are (Re)Constructed in The West Wing
  
  Presenters: Rebecca Mallett and Manuel Madriaga, Sheffield Hallam University

10.2 Pride Time: Is It Our (Disability) Time?

ROOM: JOSHUA TREE

Moderator: Tanya Titchkosky, University of Toronto

• The Time for Blindness
  
  Presenter: Rod Michalko, University of Toronto
• Pride and Shame: Towards a Temporality of Disability Pride
  
  Presenter: Eliza Chandler, University of Toronto
• Breaking a Disabled Limb: Social and Medical Constructions of ‘Legitimate’ and ‘Illegitimate’ Impairments
  
  Presenter: Isaac Stein, University of Toronto
• Not-Yet-Time: The Paradox of Disability in University Life
  
  Presenter: Tanya Titchkosky, University of Toronto

10.3 Disability and Visual/Performance Arts

ROOM: AGAVE BALLROOM

Moderator:

• Hiding in Plain Sight: Masks as Markers of Identity
  
  Presenter: Cole Cohen, California Institute of the Arts
• Critical Representations: Temporality and the “You Know” Moment in David B’s Epileptic
  
  Presenter: Kate McLaughlin, Syracuse University
• The Chicken or the Egg: Errol Morris’s “A Brief History of Time”
  
  Presenter: Lou Thompson, Texas Woman’s University
• Disability and Race on Broadway in 1935: A Look Back at “Porgy and Bess”
  
  Presenter: Mariette Bates, The City University of New York

10.4 The Discomfort Zone: Exploring juxtapositions of Applied and Theoretical DS in Research and Practice

ROOM: Presidio II

Moderator: Pamela Cushing, University of Western Ontario

• Where is DS at Today? Systematic Overview and Analysis of Current Distribution of Disability Studies Courses and Degrees
  
  Presenter: Pamela Cushing, University of Western Ontario
• Using the Discomfort Zone to Create a Disability Studies Informed Rehabilitation Practice
  
  Presenters: Susan Magasi, North Shore University and Jessica Kramer, Boston University
• The Discomfort Zone: Collaborative Disability Studies Research with Clinicians, Activists, and Youth with Multiple Sclerosis
  
  Presenters: Pamela Block (Stony Brook University), Maria Milazzo (Stony Brook University), Eva Rodriguez (Stony Brook University), and Akemi Nishida (City University of New York)
• Thoughts on the Application of Disability Studies and the Maintenance of Theory
  
  Presenter: Devva Kasnitz, University of California, Berkeley

10.5 Poster Setup

ROOM Turquoise II

Poster Session, , DSQ Meet & Greet the Editors (Session 10.6) – (6:15 PM to 7:15 PM)

Room: Turquoise III

• Image of Disability as Portrayed in Star Trek
  
  Presenter: Pamela Stafford, Connections LLC
• Where’s Trig? An Analysis of the Use of Disability in the 2008 Presidential Campaign
  
  Presenters: Julia Scherba de Valenzuela, University of New Mexico; Susan Copeland, University of New Mexico
• Alternate Voices: Digital Story Telling in Community Mental Health
  
  Presenter: Scott Wallin, University of California
• Time & Psychosocial Perceptions of the Pain Experience
  
  Presenters: Samantha Boris Karpel, Veterans Health Care; Jared Katz, Columbia University
• A Public-Private Partnership: The University of Toledo Disability Studies Program
  
  Presenter: Jim Ferris, University of Toledo
• Disabilities and the Nigerian society: Issues and Trends
  
  Presenters: Omolara Funmilola Akinpelu, Syracuse University; Quadri Mohammed, Univesal Basic Education Board; Opeoluwa Sontonwa, Howard University School of Law; Lawrence Edelifo, Federal Ministry of Culture, Youth, and Sports
• The “Hidden Curriculum:” Portrayals of People with Disabilities Presenters: Nina Slota, Northern State University; Robin Rosenthal, Northern State University
• Participatory Research on Universal Design and Accessible Space at the University of Arizona
  
  Presenter: Nicholas Rattray, University of Arizona
• “Higher Education For All: Improving Outcomes for Students with Disabilities in Post-Secondary Education.”
  
  Presenters: Ann Keefer, Brian Zimmerman, & Marc Holmes, Temple University

SDS Dance 8:00 pm to 12:00

ROOM Presidio III/IV/V

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Registration: Satellite Desk – 8:30 & ONGOING

AV & Moderator Training: Agave Ballroom – 8:45 to 9:15

Breakout Session XI – 9:30 to 10:45 am

11.1 War, Peace, and Disability

ROOM: Presidio I

Moderator: Frank Wyman

• Examining the Experiences of Persons Disabled by War in Peace Processes
  
  Presenter: Pearl Gottschalk
• The Ethics of Perpetrating Atrocity: The Ethics of Narrating Atrocity
  
  Presenter: Chris Chapman, University of Toronto
• Encountering the Terrorism of “Madness”: Nation’s Normal Race to Culture of Categories
  
  Presenter: Shaista Patel, University of Toronto
• Time After Time: The “Doings” of Anxiety’s Appearance in the World
  
  Presenter: Melissa Strowger, University of Toronto

11.2 Disability and Higher Education III

ROOM: JOSHUA TREE

Moderator: Susan Baglieri

• Double Time Is Okay; Triple Time Is Too Much
  
  Presenter: Rose Mariana Robb, Access Association of Disabled
• Ideologies Guiding the Provision of Disability Services in Higher Education
  
  Presenter: Alberto Guzman, University of Illinois and University of Arizona
• Integrating the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing into Higher Education System in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects
  
  Presenters: Olabisi Olawuyi, University of Ilorin; Olabisi Olasehinde-Williams, University of Ilorin

11.3 Autism as Teacher

ROOM: Presidio II

Moderators: Anne McGuire and Patty Douglas, University of Toronto

• Staying in-touch with Autism: Re-imagining method as an ethical question
  
  Presenter: Anne E. McGuire, OISE, University of Toronto
• Making Faces: The Ethics of ‘Care’
  
  Presenter: Patty Douglas, OISE, University of Toronto
• Facilities and Situated Functioning: The Autism Spectrum, Retardation, and Disabling Intelligence
  
  Presenter: M. J. Moore, University of California, Santa Cruz

Breakout Session XII – 11:15 am to 12:30 pm

12.1 Award Winning Research: Senior Scholar and Zola Award Winners

ROOM: AGAVE BALLROOM

Moderator: Noam Ostrander

• Disability Branding: Rethinking Disability in a Contemporary Advanced Capitalist Context
  
  Senior Scholar Award winners: Elizabeth DePoy and Stephen Gilson, University of Maine
• Visually Experiencing a Phone Call
  
  Zola Award winner Jeremy Brunson, Gallaudet University

12.2 Psychological Perspectives on Disability

ROOM: JOSHUA TREE

Moderator: Denise Nepveux

• Disability Studies and Psychoanalysis: Time for the Couch or Culture?
  
  Presenter: Dan Goodley, Manchester Metropolitan University
• We’ve hit the three month mark: Pain, Time and Subjectivity
  
  Presenter: Alyson Patsavas
• The Evolving Freak Show: Dr. Phil’s “Medical” Theater
  
  Presenter: Jennifer Eisenhauer, Ohio State University

12.3 Representation and Subjectivity

ROOM: Presidio I

Moderator: Frank Wyman

• The Globalized Body: Disability and Space in Loaves and Fishes
  
  Presenter: Julie Minich, Miami University
• Blindness, Temporality, and Existential Tension in the Writings of Jacques Lusseyran and Stephen Kuusito
  
  Presenter: Rene Harrison, Purdue University
• Re-Membering
  
  Presenter: Ann Millett-Gallant, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Business Meeting and Lunch – 1:00 to 2:30 pm

ROOM: Presidio III/IV/V

• Your Voices Count: Acknowledgment of the Award Winners

Plenary II (Session 12.4): 2:45 to 4:15 p.m.

Making History: The Encyclopedia of American Disability History Project

Room: Presidio III/IV/V

• Presenters: Susan Burch, Penny Richards, Richard Scotch

Breakout Session XIII – 4:45 to 6 p.m.

13.1 Literary Disability

ROOM: JOSHUA TREE

Moderator: Denise Nepveux

• Embodied Time in Alphonse Daudet’s “In the Land of Pain”
  
  Presenter: Emily Cameron
• Disability Narratives, Then and Now
  
  Presenter: Katrina Mergen-Adams, Duke University
• Villainous Victims and Victimized Victims: Disability in “Wuthering Heights”
  
  Presenter: Sami Schalk, University of Notre Dame
• “American Physiognomies: Disability in the American Novel.”
  
  Presenters: David Mitchell, Temple University; Sharon Snyder, Brace Yourselves Productions

13.2 Whose Time is “Our” Time?

ROOM: AGAVE BALLROOM

Moderator: Margaret Price, Spellman College

• Same Time, Different Place: Theatre, Disability, and Arts-Based Health Research
  
  Presenter: Kirsty Johnston, University of British Columbia
• For ‘Our’ Time: Considering Notions of Temporality in Art and Disability Experience
  
  Presenter: Gail Werblood, University of Illinois, Chicago
• Reflections on Intersectionality and the “The R-Word Campaign”
  
  Presenter: Eli Clare

13.3 Agency and Representation

ROOM: Presidio I

Moderator: Alberto Guzman

• Lessons from the Self-Advocacy Movement; A Look at Seven States
  
  Presenter: Jessica Bacon, Syracuse University
• Sexual Pursuits of Pleasure Among Men and Women with Spinal Cord Injuries
  
  Presenter: Noam Ostrander, DePaul University
• Liberalism, Determinism, and Discursive Positioning
  
  Presenter: Chris Chapman, University of Toronto

Closing Event (Session 13.4) An Evening of Comedy and Cabaret – Saturday 7:30 PM 9:30 PM

ROOM: Presidio III/IV/V

• Liz Carr, Independent Artist