Society for Disability Studies

Session 1:    8:30 – 9:45 am
Session 2:    10:15 – 11:30 am
Session 3:    1:00 – 2:15 pm
Session 4:    2:45 – 4:00 pm
Session 5:    4:30 – 5:45 pm

Session 1: FR 8:30-9:45 a.m.

1a. Discussion: Introduction to Disability Studies: Disability Pedagogy in Foundational Undergraduate Courses

Discussants: Joanne Woiak (U. Washington), Susan Burch (Middlebury C.), Michelle Jarman (U. Wyoming), Marsha Saxton (World Institute on Disability)
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1b. Youth and Disability

Moderator: Jeannette Cox

• Maria Town (U.S. Department of Labor) and Bethany Stevens (Georgia State U.) “Disability Studies for the ADA Generation”
• Karen Yoshida (U. Toronto) and Fady Shanouda (York U., CA) “Ontario Easter Seals Camps: (Re)producing and Resisting Dominant Discourses of Disability and Gender among People with Polio”
• Nikki Wedgewood (U. Sydney) “A Person with Abilities: The Transition to Adulthood of a Young Woman with a Severe Physical Impairment”

Ontario Easter Seals Camps

1c. Issues in Inclusive Education II

Moderator: Ashley Taylor

• Nirmala Erevelles (University of Alabama) “Cripping the Sex Curriculum in Inclusive Education”
• Deanna Adams (Syracuse U.) “Positivism Goes to School: Positive Behavior Supports from a Disability Studies Lens” Positivism Goes to School
• David Connor (Hunter C.) “Diversifying Diversity: Contemplating Dis/ability at the Table(s) of Social Justice and Multicultural Education”

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Session 2: FR 10:15-11:30 a.m.

2a. Discussion: Beyond the Founders: Putting Disability Justice into Practice at an ILC

Moderator: Sarah Triano (Silicon Valley Independent Living Center)

2b. Disability and Film

Moderator: Chris Ewart

• Michael Clarke (U. Calgary) “The View from Below: Perspective and Narrative in The Station Agent”
• Sarah Smith Rainey (Bowling Green State U.) “Integration and Justice in They Came Back”
• Stephanie Thompson (U. Cincinnati) “From Dumbo to Nemo: Disability Stereotypes and Representation over 60 years in Disney” From Dumbo to Nemo Disability Stereotypes and Representation over 60 years in Disney From Dumbo to Nemo Disability Stereotypes and Representation over 60 years in Disney.pptx
• Kristen Loutensock (U. California, Berkeley) “Performing Idiocy: The American Minstrel Tradition and Developmental Disability in Hollywood”

2c. Discussion: Inter-Interdisciplinary: Doing Disability Studies from Feminist Locations

Discussants: Alison Kafer (Southwestern U.) Mel Chen (U. California, Berkeley), Ellen Samuels (U. Wisconsin) Inter-Interdisciplinary

2d. WorkshopUsing Distance Education and Universal Design to Enhance the Reach of Disability Studies Curriculum for Postsecondary Students and Faculty

Facilitators: Megan Conway (U. Hawai’i) and Tom Conway (U. Hawai’i) Distance Education

2e. Life Writing, Narrative, and Disability

Moderator: Kaley Roosen

• Elizabeth Wheeler (U. Oregon) “’Intense, Extravagant, and Problematic’:  Seizing Space in Disability Narratives”
• Ann Millett-Gallant (UNC-Greensboro) “Re-Membering: Putting Mind and Body Back Together Following Traumatic Brain Injury” Re-membering Putting Mind and Body Back Together Following Traumatic Brain Injury Re-membering Putting Mind and Body Back Together Following Traumatic Brain Injury
• Amy Vidali (U. Colorado, Denver) “Underlining Disability: Unwilling Disclosures and Discrimination in Admissions Essays” Underlining Disability

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Session 3: FR 1:00-2:15 p.m.

3a. Social movements

Moderator: Ryan Parrey

• Tara Wood (Oklahoma U.) “Resisting Rhetorics of Care: A Comparative Burkean Analysis of Social Movement in Deaf and PWD Communities”
• Sharon Barnartt (Gallaudet U.) “Disability Protests 1970 – 2005:  Empirical Realities and Changing Meanings” Disability Protests
• Anthony Foster (U. Toronto) “Endgame: The Disabled as Pawns in Contemporary Canada” Endgame Names and Terminology
• Chitra Gurung (U. Illinois, Chicago) “Gender, Disability and Community Based Rehabilitation: Experience from Nepal”

3b. Organized Panel: What are We Teaching When We Teach Disability Studies?

Moderator: Margaret Price

• Tim Thompson (Pacific U.) “Remembering the Strangeness: Back to Basics”
• Catherine Kudlick (UC Davis) “Hopefully, the Worst Disability Studies Class Ever”
• Jim Ferris (U. Toledo) “Nothing Succeeds Like Success, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Assessment”
• Carrie Sandahl (U. Illinois, Chicago) “What do you mean you don’t know who Irv Zola is?, or, Should there be a Disability Studies Canon?”

3c. Organized Panel: Negotiating Ordinary and Extraordinary Discourses: Discourse within Disability Theory and Disability Activism

Moderator: Cassandra Hartblay

• Michele Friedner (U. California, Berkeley) “Claiming (Lack of) Access: A Universal Moral Sphere?”
• Devva Kasnitz (Devvaco Consulting) and Erica Edwards (Arizona State U.) “Authoritative Discourses in Disability Theory, Policy, and Activism Concepts: Examples from International Policy Analysis an Interdisciplinary Conflict”
• Denise Nepveux (York U., CA) and Kathryn Guerts (Hamline U.) “Empowerment Discourse and Gendered Struggle in Ghana’s Disability Movement”

3d. Feminist Perspectives on Justice and Corporeality

Moderator: Jen Rinaldi

• Kristina Knoll (U. Washington) “Exploring Feminist Disability Studies” Exploring Feminist Disability Studies
• Sami Schalk (Indiana U., Bloomington) “Expanding Our Theoretical Toolbox: The Politics of (Dis)Ability in Black Feminist Scholarship” Expanding Our Theoretical Toolbox The Politics of DisAbility in Black Feminist Scholarship
• Joe Stramondo (Michigan State U.) “Social Privilege and the Limits of Formal Justice: One Reason Why Removing Barriers to Equality of Opportunity is not Enough for Americans with Disabilities”
• Alyson Patsavas (U. Illinois, Chicago) “Re-Conceptualizing Pain: A Matter of Social Justice”

3e. Meeting: Queer Caucus

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Session 4: FR 2:45-4:00 p.m.

4a. Organized Panel: Disability Chic: Uses and Abuses of Disability in Commodity Culture

Discussant/Moderator: Catherine Kudlick (UC Davis)

• Bess Williamson (U. Delaware) “Inspiring Style: Disability Chic in Design” Inspiring Style
• Katherine McMahon (SUNY Buffalo) “Fame Monster: Lady Gaga, Sensationalism and the Performance of Disability”
• Sumi Colligan (Massachusetts C. of Liberal Arts) “Is There Such a Thing as Crip Fashion Justice? Anthropological, Feminist, and Disability Studies Perspectives” Is there such a thing as crip fashion justice

4b. Discussion: Students as Activists: Pursuing Universal Design and Disability Justice in Academia

Moderators: Erica Sekins (U. Washington), Marisa Hackett (U. Washington), Kristina Knoll (U. Washington) Monica Olssen (U. Washington)

4c. Disability and Identity II

Moderator: Art Blaser

• Petra Kuppers (U. Michigan) “Somantics and Performance: New Politics”
• Lieke van Heumen, “Disability Studies and Aging” Disability Studies and Aging
• Samantha Serrano (U. Texas, Austin) “Pues, Ambos son Tabus. ‘Well, they’re both taboos’: How Guatemalan Laws and Codes Affect the Sexual Rights of People Experiencing Intellectual and Psychological Disabilities” Pues, Ambos son Tabus Abstract Pues, Ambos son Tabus Paper

4d. Changing Attitudes

Moderator: Miriam Hertz

• Heather Brown (Hiram C.) and Michelle Nario-Redmond (Hiram C.) “Empathy, Sympathy, Pity, Inspiration: Instigators of Beneficence, Paternalism, Social Dominance and Ego Gratification” Empathy Sympathy Pity Inspiration
• Jeannette Cox (U. Dayton) “The Next Step for the ADA:  Realigning ‘Impairment’ with the Social Model”
• Debbie Engelen-Eigles (Century C.) “How Might a Critical Disability Studies Perspective Guide Disability Attitudes Research?  Progress Report on the Development of a New Measurement Instrument” How Might a Critical Disability Studies Perspective Guide Disability Attitudes Research
• Paul Harpur (TC Beirne School of Law) “A Re-Appraisal of the Bifurcation of Discrimination into Disparate Treatment and Disparate Impact: The Potentiality of Other Regulatory Mechanisms” A Re-Appraisal of the Bifurcation of Discrimination into Disparate Treatment and Disparate Impact The Potentiality of Other Regulatory Mechanisms

4e. Organized Panel: Thinking—Critically—about the Body and Its Connection to the World

Moderator: Joseph Morgan

• Eliza Chandler (U. Toronto) “Crip Community: Toward a relational aesthetic for disability rights activism” Crip Community The Space of Disability
• Kelly Fritsch (York U., CA) “On the Negative Possibility of Suffering”

• Ryan Parrey (U. Illinois, Chicago) “At a Crossroads: Encountering Disability Ethics”

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Session 5: FR 4:30-5:45 p.m.

5. Workshop Fundamentals of Physically Integrated Dance: AXIS Dance Co.  Pine-Fir-Oak Room (2nd floor)

5a. Organized Panel: Neoliberalism and Disability: Implications for Social Justice in Global Perspective

Moderator: Michele Friedner

• Randall Owen (U. Illinois, Chicago) “Welfare Reform, Employment and Neoliberalism: The Experiences of People with Disabilities in Liberal Welfare States”
• Robert Gould (U. Illinois, Chicago) “Public/Private Partnerships: Facilitating Social Justice in Disability Employment Services”
• Vandana Chaudhry (U. Illinois, Chicago) “Disability Pension in Postcolonial Neoliberalizing India- A Paradox or a Possibility?”
• Katherine Caldwell (U. Illinois, Chicago) “Citizenship & Intellectual Disability”

5b. Discussion:Changing Perceptions through Creative Writing

Discussants: Scott Stoner (VSA),  Ivonne O’Neal (VSA), Jim Ferris (U. Toledo), Carrie Sandahl (U. Illinois, Chicago)

5c. Discussion: Crip Mates

Organizer: David Linton (Marymount Manhattan C.)

5d. Discussion: The Tourism Industry as a Vehicle for Disability Justice: Strategic Planning for 2011 & Beyond

Moderator: Scott Rains (The Rolling Rains Report)

5e. Organized Panel: Disability in the Field: What the Researcher Brings and Leaves Behind

Moderator: Joan Ostrove

• Jen Rinaldi (York U., CA) Disability Studies and Reflexivity: Does the Closeted Disabled Researcher Belong? Disability Fieldwork Disability Studies and Reflexivity Panel Summary
• Kaley Roosen (York U., CA) “Psychological Health Research: Can Disability Studies and Psychology Co-Exist?” Psychological Health Research