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Composing Disability 2015-2016
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Thursday 7 April 2016
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| LaDonna Redmond |
1:00-2:30: KEYNOTE (Jack
Morton Auditorium)
LaDonna Redmond:
LaDonna Redmond:
"Beyond the plate: Using food as a tool to
end oppression"
3:00-4:15: Session: “Environmental
Justice” (Jack Morton Auditorium)
Joshua Kupetz (University of Michigan):
“Disability Ecologies, Urban Infrastructures, and Generic Fictions: or Watching the Detectives in Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist (1999) and Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn (1999)”
“Disability Ecologies, Urban Infrastructures, and Generic Fictions: or Watching the Detectives in Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist (1999) and Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn (1999)”
Jessica Cowing (College of William and Mary):
“Dis/ability, Indigeneity, and Future Ecologies in
Avatar”
Maria Junttila Carson (Syracuse University):
“Affects of Bodies, Flowers, and God”
“Affects of Bodies, Flowers, and God”
4:45-6:00 Roundtable: “Biopolitics:
Law, Life, Land, Love” (Jack Morton Auditorium)
Sponsored
by GW MEMSI (Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute)
- Julia Watts Belser (Georgetown University)
- George Edmondson (Dartmouth College)
- Randy Schiff (SUNY Buffalo)
- Sharon O’Dair (University of Alabama)
- Jen Boyle (Coastal Carolina University)
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| Sunaura Taylor |
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| Susan Antebi |
Friday 8
April 2016
9:30-10:45 Session: “Media
Ecologies” (Jack Morton Auditorium)
Shannon Wooden (Missouri State University):
“‘Once Big Oil, Always Big Oil’: Disability and
Sustainability in Pixar’s Cars 2”
Samuel Yates (GWU):
“Divergent Cripistemologies: Biosocial Assessments
of Atypicality”
Kellie White (George Mason University):
“Mormon Sex Lives: Discourses on Disability, Capitalism, and Sexuality”
“Mormon Sex Lives: Discourses on Disability, Capitalism, and Sexuality”
11:15-12:30 KEYNOTES
(Jack Morton Auditorium)
Susan Antebi (University of Toronto):
“Healthy Objects, Hygienic Futures: Medical
Inspection and the Built Environment in Mexico”
Sunaura Taylor (NYU):
“Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation”
“Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation”
12:30-2:00 LUNCH (not
provided)
2:00-3:00 Student Panel
(Jack Morton Auditorium)
Rodrigo Duran (GWU):
“‘You See, I Too Have A Handicap’: Disability and The Doom Patrol”
Yona Weissman Fabra (GWU):
“Speaking Up on ‘Autism Speaks’”
Maria Wilhoit (GWU):
“Disabled People and the Holocaust: Reflections on
Germany and its T4 Memorial Sites”
Rebecca Hurd, Jacob Ramos, and Peyton Swift (GWU):
“The Hard Worker Conundrum”
“The Hard Worker Conundrum”
3:30-4:45 Breakout session:
“Crip Environments, Toxic Ecologies” (Jack Morton Auditorium)
Derek Newman-Stille (Trent University) and Haylie
Swenson (GWU):
“Desiring Animal-Mediated Environments: ‘Fake’
Guide Dogs and the Work of the Pet”
Louise Hickman (University of California, San
Diego):
“Distributing Crip Sociality”
M.W. Bychowski (GWU):
“Toxic
Environments: the Place and Genre of the Transgender Suicide Note”
3:30-4:45 Breakout
session: “Crip/Queer Embodiments” (Media & Public Affairs 132)
Sukshma Vedere (GWU):
“Re-Writing Gender and Madness in Cereus Blooms at Night”
Kevin Gotkin (University of Pennsylvania):
“Breathing Techniques”
Sharon Snyder and David Mitchell (GWU):
“Precarity and Cross-Species Identifications: Autism, Crip/Queer Bodies, and the Critique of Normative Cognition”
“Precarity and Cross-Species Identifications: Autism, Crip/Queer Bodies, and the Critique of Normative Cognition”
5:15-6:30 Roundtable: “Digital
Amphibians: Parallel Lives and Media Publics” (Jack Morton Auditorium)
Sponsored
by the GW Digital Humanities Institute
- Alexis Lothian (University of Maryland), fandom, social justice, digital media
- David Perry (Dominican University), disability journalist and activist/author
- Rachel Vorona Cote, freelance writer
- Alice Wong (virtually from UCSF), Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
7:00 Poetry Reading
(Smith Hall of Art, Gallery 102)
- Cathy Eisenhower
- Tolonda Henderson
- Mel Nichol
