Session 1: 8:30 – 9:30 am
Session 2: 10:00 – 11:15 am
Session 3: 1:30 – 2:45 pm
Session 4: 3:15 – 4:30 pm
Session 5: 5:00 – 6:15 pm
Session 1: TH 8:30-9:30 a.m.
1a. Disability and Merit
Moderator: Nirmala Erevelles
- Brian Grossman (San Jose State U.) “Disability, Meritocracy, and Social Citizenship”
- Cheryl Strimple (Southern Methodist U.) “People with Disabilities and the ‘Deserving’ and ‘Undeserving’ Poor in Jacksonian America”
Strimple, List of Proper Names
Strimple, People with Disabilities and the Deserving and Undeserving Poor in Jacksonian America - Steven Kapp (U. California, Los Angeles) “Neurodiversity and Progress for Intercultural Equity”
1b. Physical Access as Social Justice
Moderator: Stephanie Jenkins
- Tanya Titchkosky (U. Toronto) “Questions of Access: Limit and Possibilities”
Questions of Access - Miranda Sue Terry (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and Stephen J. Notaro (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) “Restaurant Inaccessibility: Present-Day Discrimination”
Restaurant Inaccessibility - Peggy Kaney (Northeastern State U.) and Clayton Copeland (U. South Carolina) “Libraries for All: Equity of Access for Differently-Abled Youth”
Libraries for all handout
Libraries for all summary
Libraries for all
1c. Organized Panel: Inclusive Entrepreneurship
Presenters: Gary Shaheen, El-Java Abdul-Qadir, Mirza Tihic
Inclusive Entrepreneurship
1d. Eugenic Legacies
Moderator: Susan Burch
- Michael Rembis (SUNY Buffalo) “Disordered Delinquents: Toward a Social History of Madness in the Late Twentieth Century”
- Joanne Woiak (U. Washington) “‘This Patient Asked for Sterilization’: Defining Disability, Consent, and Therapy in Washington State Eugenics”
The Patient Asked for Sterilization Defining Disability, Consent, and Therapy in Washington State Eugenics - Meghan Schrader (U. New Hampshire) “The Sound of Disability: The Obsessive Avenger and Eugenics in America”
The Sound of Disability Paper
The Sound of Disability
The Sound of Disability
1e. Discussion: Newcomer’s Welcome
San Juan Room
Session 2: TH 10:00-11:15 a.m.
2a. (Re)Defining Disability
Moderator: Amanda Kraus
- Rakhat Ulakova (Yeshiva U.) “Newspaper Coverage of Disability Issues”
Newspaper Coverage of Disability Issues - Flick Grey (U. Melbourne) “Beyond Benevolence: Confronting Conversations about Distress and Madness”
- Doris Fleischer (New Jersey Institute of Technology) “Psychiatric Survivors and Consumers: The Creatively Maladjusted”
Psychiatric Survivors and Consumers
2b. Questions of Access and Parity
Moderator: Sharon Barnartt
- Rod Michalko (U. Toronto) “No Ease On The Way In: Disability and Access”
- Lauren Shallish (Syracuse U.) “College-Going Cultures and Students with Disabilities: A Review of Postsecondary Opportunity Programs and Their Inclusion of Students with Disabilities”
- Cynthia Baroody-Hart (San Jose State U.) “More Access Implies Justice: A Proposal for a National Para-transit Network”
- Dr. Bisi Olawuyi (U. of Ilorin) and Rev. Idowu Olawuyi (Trinity Household of Faith Church) “The Enduring Challenges that People with Disabilities Face in Nigeria”
List of topics
2c. Discussion: Madness and Disability Discourses in Relation
Facilitators: Erick Fabris (U. Toronto), Richard Ingram (Simon Fraser U.), James Overboe (Wilfred Laurier U.)
2d. Issues in Inclusive Education I
Moderator: Jane Gravel
- Julie Causton-Theoharis (Syracuse U.) and Fernanda Orsati (Syracuse U.) “It Becomes a Power Struggle: Understanding Teacher Perspectives on Challenging Behaviors in Inclusive Classrooms”
Challenging Behavior - Jennifer Anderson (San Jose State U.) A Plan for Providing Accessible Class Content for University Students Using the Universal Design for Learning
A Plan for Providing Accessible Class Content for University Students Using the Universal Design for Learning - Sarah Franz (U. Illinois, Chicago) “Issues in Inclusive Education: Current Notions of the Social and Linguistic Rights of Deaf Children”
Extended Summary
Key Words for Captioning and Interpreters
2e. Discussion Roundtable: Social Justice and Speech Impairment
Moderators: Devva Kasnitz (Devvaco Consulting), Miriam Hertz, Neil Jacobson (Abilicorps), Bob Segalman (Speech Communications Assistance by Telephone, Inc.)
Session 3: TH 1:30-2:45 p.m.
3a. Organized Panel: Beyond Disability Rights to Effecting Systems Change: Results of a Decade of Participatory Action Research on Olmstead & Least Restrictive Community Living
Moderator: Megan Conway
- Joy Hammel (U. Illinois, Chicago) “Moving Out of the Nursing Home to the Community: A Participatory Action Research in Long- Term Care Policy”
A Decade of Participatory Action Research - Danbi Lee (U. Illinois, Chicago) “Evaluating a Consumer-Directed Community Living Program for People Who Transitioned Out of Nursing Homes: A Pilot Study”
Development and Management of CLM Program - Tom Wilson (Access Living) “Social Justice and Systems Change in Consumer-Directed Programming”
- Sarah Triano (Silicon Valley Independent Living Center) “Strategizing Systems Change Surrounding Community Living Choice within the Current National Budget Crisis”
Model Community Reintegration Peer Mentoring Program
3b. Disability in Literature
Moderator: Petra Kuppers
- Dominika Bednarska (U. California Berkeley) “A Cripped Erotic: Gender and Disability in James Joyce’s “Nausicaa”
- Adam Newman (Vassar C.) “Why Can’t Jews with Polio Play Indian?: Disability and Racial Performance in Philip Roth’s Nemesis
Why Can’t Jews with Polio Play Indian - Christopher Krentz (U. Virginia) “Borges in the Mind’s Eye”
Borges in the Mind’s Eye - Rebecca Sanchez, (Rochester Institute of Technology) “Toward a More Just Society: Angeline Fuller Fischer and the Development of Deaf History”Toward a More Just Society
3c. Disability and Identity I
Moderator: Michelle Nario-Redmond
- Stephanie Jenkins (Pennsylvania State U.) and Nina Slota (Northern State U.) “Beyond Pain: Medical Diagnosis, Legal Status, and Identity Development”
Vocabulary List - James Overboe, (Wilfrid Laurier U.) “Social Justice should include the vitality of impairments!”
- Amanda Kraus (U. Arizona) and Nicholas Rattray (U. Arizona) “Disability Politics and Veterans with Disabilities”
Veterans with Disabilities
3d. Workshop: Participatory Description: The Next Frontier in Accessibility?
Facilitators: Georgina Kleege (U. California, Berkeley), Catherine Kudlick (UC Davis) Heather Love (U. Pennsylvania), Darrin Martin (UC Davis), Mara Mills (New York U.)
3e. Speech Communication and Hearing Research Advocacy Group
Organizer: Devva Kasnitz (Devvaco Consulting)
Session 4: TH 3:15-4:30 p.m.
4a. Neoliberalism and Disability
Moderator: Tanya Titchkosky
- David Mitchell (Temple U.) “From Liberal to Neoliberal Futures of Disability
- Sarah Parker (U. Illinois, Chicago) “Disability Rights, Policy Values and Employment in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom”
- Chris Ewart (Simon Fraser U.) “Kidneys to Go: Dis-Ordering the Body in a Pretty Dirty Economy”
Kidneys To Go
The Men of One Kidney Island
4b. Workshop: Scholars’ Collective Responsibilities to the Disability Community: On a Hyphen of Activism and Scholarship
Facilitators: Akemi Nishida (CUNY), Nirmala Erevelles (U. Alabama), Marjorie McGee (Portland State U.)
4c. Speech Communication Differences
Moderator: John Derby
- Andrew Bennett (Syracuse U.) “Freedom herself is very agile, very co-dependent, and is a lovely person”: The School Identities of High-School-Age Youth with Communication Differences
Freedom herself is very agile, very co-dependant, and is a lonely person
Freedom herself is very agile, very co-dependant, and is a lonely person
Terminology - Matthew Wangeman (Northern Arizona U.) “Teaching Using Mediated Communication at a University”
- Naomi Steinberg (Humboldt U.) and Devva Kasnitz (Devvaco Consulting), “Disability, Speech, and Judaism: Will you be my Aaron?”
4d. Organized Panel: Defining Human Community through Knowledge Practices
Moderator: Jennifer Anderson
- Jennifer C. Sarrett (Emory U.) “Autistic Human Rights—A Proposal”
Autistic Human Rights A Proposal - Rachel Dudley (Emory U.) “Discursive Reversals of Extraordinary Strength”
Summary
The Medical Plantation
4e. Graduate Students Meet-up and Discussion
San Juan Room
Convener: Sami Schalk
Session 5: TH 5:00-6:15 p.m.
5a. Representing Disability
Moderator: Christopher Krentz
- Savitri Persaud (U. Toronto) “Modern Manifestations of Guyanese Folklore: Understanding Gender, Disability, and Violence in the Caribbean”
- Ann Fudge Schormans (McMaster U.) “Claiming the Right of Inspection: Public Photography and People with Intellectual Disabilities”
- Thea Gold (U. California, Berkeley) “Judy Garland Had Scoliosis: Cripping The Wizard of Oz”
5b. Challenging the Status Quo
Moderator: Clayton Copeland
- Ashley Taylor (Syracuse U.) “How Capable is the Capabilities Approach?”
How Capable is the Capabilities Approach - Laura Back (U. Washington) “Invisible Disabilities and Medicalization as Legitimation: Challenges for the Social Model”
- Cassandra Hartblay (UNC-Chapel Hill) “Horizons of Possibility: Ethnographic Insights into Parent-Activist Strategies in Contemporary Russia”
Horizons of Possibility
Jargon and Terms
5c. Organized Panel: Does Theory Matter? Perspectives on Disability and Justice
Moderator: Alison Kafer
- Nancy Hirschmann (U. Pennsylvania) “Disability: A Question of Justice? Or a Question of Freedom?”
Disability A Question of Justice - Heather Love (U. Pennsylvania) “Stigma/Politics: The Case for Comparison”
- Ellen Samuels (U. Wisconsin) “If You Love Queer Theory So Much, Why Don’t You Marry It? Cripping Anti-Futurity”
Cripping Anti Futurity - Margaret Price (Spelman C.) “In/ter/dependent Scholarship”
Interdependent Scholarship
5d. Discussion: The Normalizing Pressure of Friendship: The Implications of Social (In)justice for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities
Moderators: Elizabeth McBride (U. Illinois, Chicago), Kelly Munger (U. Illinois, Chicago) Katherine Caldwell (U. Illinois, Chicago)
5e. Meeting: People of Color Caucus
San Juan Room
Convener: Akemi Nishida