Composing Disability 2013-2014

Composing Disability 2013-2014

"Diagnosis, Interrupted"

Thursday, April 3 - Friday, April 4, 2014

The second installment of this event series, Composing Disability: Diagnosis, Interrupted, is scheduled for April 3-4 2014 in the Jack Morton Auditorium of GW’s School of Media and Public Affairs. This event will offer a series of panel presentations, keynote speeches and performances that take as their focus the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (published May 2013), examining the fraught relationship between the diagnostic work of the medical industry and the embodied lives of disabled people.

Featured Presentations by

Ellen Forney, author of Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me
Ann Cvetkovich, author of Depression: A Public Feeling
Karen Nakamura, author of A Disability of the Soul
Katie Rose Guest Pryal, author of A Short Guide to Writing about Law

Schedule for Composing Disability: Diagnosis Interrupted

Composing Disability: Diagnosis Interrupted

Jonathan Hsy

Thursday, April 3, 2014

12:00pm-1:00pm Registration (SMPA Lobby)

1:00pm-2:30pm WELCOME REMARKS AND KEYNOTE PRESENTATION (Jack Morton Auditorium)

Katie Rose Guest Pryal, “Authority Lost: The DSM-5’s Fall From Legal Grace”

2:45pm-4:00pm CRAZY SEX: PATHOLOGY, ALTERNATIVE SEXUALITIES, AND NON-NORMATIVE DESIRES (Jack Morton Auditorium)

Leslie Freeman, “Undone: Meditations on Grief and Longing”

Bethany Stevens, “Orgasmic Freedom: Cripping Sex and Speaking Shame”

David Mitchell, “Disability, Sexual Prohibition, and the Politics of Atypicality”

4:15pm-5:30pm CONTESTED BOUNDARIES: THE RESTRAINTS OF THERAPY (Jack Morton Auditorium)

Brad Lewis, “Narrative Identity, Pharmaceutical Marketing, and Mental Health Liberation”

Anna Mollow (in absentia) and Merri Lisa Johnson, “Mad Feminism: The Coalitional Politics of DSM-CRIP”

8:00pm-10:00pm EVENING BOOK TALK (Marvin Center Amphitheater)

Ellen Forney, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me

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Brad Lewis

Friday, April 4, 2014

8:30am-9:30am Registration and Continental Breakfast (SMPA Lobby; SMPA Art Gallery Lobby)

9:30am-10:45am KEYNOTE PRESENTATION (Jack Morton Auditorium)

Karen Nakamura, “Barrier-Free Brothels and Call-Girls for Crips: Debates about Access to Sex and Sexual Release Services for Men with Disabilities in Japan”

11:00am-12:15pm DISABILITY (IN)EXCLUSION: THE LIMITS OF HISTORY (Jack Morton Auditorium)

Jonathan Hsy, “Rethinking the Contact Zone: Hearing and Deaf Medieval Monks”

Therí A. Pickens, “New Body Politics and Political Flesh”

Linda Ware, “Getting to ‘Yes’ in a Racist ‘Past’ and Ableist ‘Active’ Present”

12:30pm-1:45pm Lunch (Lisner Hall Conference Center, Second Floor)

2:00pm-3:15pm FUTURES OF ACCESS AT GWU (Jack Morton Auditorium)

Brittanie Pierce, “Perceptions Role in Diagnosis and Success for Students with Invisible Disabilities”

Jaggar DeMarco, “A Complete Engagement with Higher Education”

Danica Gonzalves, “Mental Illness and Withdrawal from Higher Education: Providing Adequate Support for College Students with Mental Illness”

Jackson Richman, “Disabilities: Enabling TAs”

3:30pm-5:00pm KEYNOTE PRESENTATION (Jack Morton Auditorium)

Ann Cvetkovich and Abby Wilkerson, “Public Feelings, Disability Studies, and Feeling Bad: A Conversation”

5:00pm-5:15pm CLOSING REMARKS (Jack Morton Auditorium)

6:00pm-8:00pm RECEPTION AND DIAGNOSIS, INTERRUPTED: A POETRY PERFORMANCE (Gelman Library, 302)