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this page provides the full schedule for the 2008 21st 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.

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• Day 1: June 18
• Day 2: June 19
• Day 3: June 20
• Day 4: June 21

WEDNESDAY, 18 JUNE

BREAKOUT SESSION I. 2:00pm-3:15pm

1.1 Enacting the Constructed Meaning of Disability through Perceptions of Identity, Stigma and Place

Moderator: Pamela Block - room 14-220

• Priya Lalvani, “Will she get invited to birthday parties: Mothers’ of children with Down syndrome discuss inclusive classrooms in the context of social acceptance and rejection.”
• Lauren Polvere, “‘Life on the inside’: Youth, identity, and stigma in the context of residential mental health facilities.”
• Nina P. Slota, D. Forbes, Y. Ambrose, M. Watanabe, and K. Stines, “‘The privilege of using a [public] bathroom’: Individuals with inflammatory bowel disease discuss their identities in the context of culture, place, and food through published autopathographies.”
• Zosia Zaks, “Aliens Among You, and That's a Good Thing: How Autistic People are Redefining the Concept and Purpose of Our Lives.”

1.2 Bodies of Music: Disability & Musicians

Moderator: David Connor - room 14-270

• Chris Rosa, “‘Cripple on the Corner’: Springsteen’s Vision of Disability in America”
• Joseph Straus, “Disability and the ‘Late Style’ in Music.”
• Shersten Johnson, “Disintermediation of Music Spaces: Re(con)figuring Visual, Aural, and Tactile Interactions.”

1.3 Movement as/and Method: Disability Body Work

Moderator: Michele Friedner - room 14-285

• Wenche Bjorbækmo and Gunn Engelsrud, “Moving You, Moving Me, Moving Us: Researchers and Children with Disability Moving Together.”
• Marta Peres, “Different bodies: A Research Project for University Dance Department (UFRJ, Brazil).”
• Chelsey Clammer, “(In)Visible BodyMinds: Negotiating Bipolar Disorder.”

1.4 Access, Assistive Technologies, & Art

room 14-280

• Joel Snyder, “Audio Description Workshop: The Visual Made Verbal.”
• YoungHyun Chung, “Digital Wheel Art."
• Marianne Petit, John Schimmel, & Anita Perr, “Ramps.”

BREAKOUT SESSION II. 3:45pm-5:00pm

2.1 Children and Youth with Disabilities

Moderator: Karen Nakamura - room 14-285

• Lauren Attard, “Innocence Violated: The Confidentiality of Educational Records of Children with Disabilities.”
• Rannveig Traustadottir, “Spaces, Identities and Childhood Disability.”
• Susan Lee, “Disability Studies Crips Campus Recreation.”
• Patricia Sarmiento, “Social inclusion, Participation and Quality of Life: An Analysis of a Project Focused on the Social Inclusion of Children with Down’s Syndrome in Bogatá, Colombia.”

2.2 Literary Crossings

Moderator: Bruce Henderson - room 14-280

• Andre Cormier, “‘She's Lame! O!’ (U 351) The Female Body, Disability, and Irish Colonial Pathology.”
• Jose Alaniz, “The Cinema-Glossolalia of Vladmir Sorokin.”
• Julia Rodas, “Disability in Utopia.”
• Kristen Lindgren, “Writing Deaf Lives.”

2.3 Cripping the City: Disability and Education

Moderator: Alberto Guzman - room 14-270

• David Connor and Sudi Shayehsta, “Thriving, Diving, or Simply Surviving? Tales from Undergraduate Students with Learning Disabilities.”
• Doris Fleischer, “Educating Students With Disabilities in New York City.”
• Susan Peters and Laura Ann Oliver, “No Child Left Behind and People with Disabilities: Mapping the Terrain in Urban Schools and Beyond.”

2.4 Towards a New Cosmopolitanism: Bourne, Broadway and Disabled Artists

Moderator: Vicki Lewis - room 14-220

• Joan Lipkin, “Cripping Performance Space: from Carwashes to Board Rooms /the DisAbility Project.”
• Christine Komoroski-McCohnell, “Wicked or Not: Disability Realism Transforms into a Cosmopolitan View Of a ‘Happily Ever After’ Beginning.”
• Carrie Sandahl, “Mapping Creativity: Preliminary Findings from the National Endowment of the Arts study-- “Experiences of Individuals with Disabilities Pursuing Careers in the Arts."
• Ann Fox, “Disability and/in Urban Spaces”

BREAKOUT SESSION III. 5:30pm-6:45pm

3.1 Experiencing Disability, Documenting Disability: Stereotypes, Abuse, Empowerment

Moderator: Joan Ostrove - room 14-270

• Marsha Saxton, “Abuse and Independent Living: Curriculum on Abuse Prevention and Empowerment.”
• Michelle Nario-Redmond, “Consensus for Disability Stereotypes: Maintaining Group Boundaries and Legitimizing the Status Quo.”
• Bolanle Olabisi Olawuyi, Irene Abiodun Durosaro, Emmanuel Atanda Adeoye, and Theopilus Ajobiewe, “A Comparative Study Of Sources of Stress and Coping Mechanisms among PLWD in CBR and Institutions in Nigeria.”
• Noam Ostrander, “Compulsory Sanity: Covering the Madness.”

3.2 Workshop: Media Training for SDS members

room 14-285

• Beth Haller and Lawrence Carter-Long

In this media training workshop, SDS members will learn to create effective and persuasive messages for use when they are interviewed by the news media. Subjects to be covered by the workshop include: pitching story ideas to journalists, writing jargon-free news releases, staying on message while being interviewed, and writing letters to the editors and other opinion pieces. The session will be interactive with mock interviews and much time for questions and answers to discuss specific media needs and concerns of participants.

3.3 Queer-Crip Approaches to the City

Moderator: Eunjung Kim - room 14-280

• Heike Raab, “Sex Up Your Life: Queering Disability in Urban Spaces.”
• Cynthia Barounis, “Queer Flesh, Disabled Bodies: Sexuality, Shortbus and the Inaccessibility of Democracy.”
• Mel Y. Chen, “Maps in Fleeting Time: Queer Temporalities of CI/EI.”

3.4 Mobility, City to City, Story to Story

Moderator: David Connor - room 14-266

• Susan Antebi, “Psychoanalysis in the ¨Field¨of Disability: Mobility and Loss in Buenos Aires.”
• Hemachandran Karah, “Recollecting India from New York: an examination of narratives of Freudianism in Ved Mehta.” - [cancelled]<
• Jitka Sinecka, “Physical, social and virtual access: Cosmopolitan postcards from Prague and New York City.” - [changed to poster]

3.5 RECEPTION & POETRY READING 7:00pm-9:15pm

room 14-220

>li>Welcome: Elaine Gerber, SDS President
• Kathi Wolfe
• Eli Clare
• Neil Marcus
• Rebecca Raphael

DISTHIS FILM SCREENING AND MUSIC
(This isn’t an SDS event, but some of you might be interested)

HEAVY LOAD: A FILM ABOUT HAPPINESS
Followed by Q & A with the band, and director Jerry Rothwell!
WHERE: DCTV, 3rd Floor Screening Room
87 Lafayette Street between Walker & White in NYC.
SPECIAL START TIME: Doors open 6pm. Screening starts @ 6:30 pm
DONATION: A bargain @ $5!!!

DONT MISS OUT! To RSVP and reserve your seat, call: 212.284.4160 or email: disthis@dnnyc.net

Join the disTHIS! Film Series for the NY premiere of HEAVY LOAD, a feature documentary about the UK’s most unique punk band, which opened to rave audiences and reviews last March at the SXSW Festival in Austin, TX. Rural England’s answer to the Ramones, the band includes musicians with and without developmental disabilities. True to their punk roots, HEAVY LOAD was recently considered “too hardcore for BBC Radio Four” (an English equivalent of NPR) when a segment on the band was axed from a story about disability and self-determination.

HEAVY LOAD and 4 WHEEL CITY perform LIVE!

Arlene’s Grocery
95 Stanton Street (between Allen & Ludlow), NYC
Cover: $8
Space is wheelchair accessible.
Start time: 9pm

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THURSDAY, 19 JUNE

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 8:00am-10:00am

Hall outside 14-220

MODERATOR TRAINING 8:15am-8:45am

Susan Burch & Alison Kafer - room 14-285

BREAKOUT SESSION IV. 9:00am-10:15am

4.1 Experiences of People with Disabilities During Recent Crises: Lessons Learned and Import for People with Disabilities

Moderator: Christine Komoroski-McCohnell - room 14-285

• Janikke Solstad Vedeler, “The voice of persons with disabilities following a large scale disaster.”
• William Myhill, “Dilemmas within registration of people with disabilities in emergency situations.”
• Naomi Schreuer, “Common issues in countries facing terrorism and war; comparative examination of challenges and solutions.”
• Deepti Samant, “Lessons learned and reflections on disability studies.”

4.2 Contemporary Debates in Disability Rights Law: Cosmopolitan and Critical

Moderator: Elizabeth Emens - room 14-270

• Mark C. Weber, “Disability, Labor, and the United States Law of Immigration.”
• Ravi Malhotra & Suzanne Kotzer, “Interpreting Legal Narratives of Workers with Disabilities in Canada: The Role of Disability Identity in the Articulation of Human Rights in a World of Globalization.”
• Jocelyn Loosemore, “The Impact of Globalization on the Duty to Accommodate: A Canadian Perspective In Canada.”’

4.3 Performing Verbal Description: A Hands-On Workshop

room 14-220

• Lakshmi Fjord
• Georgina Kleege
• Elaine Gerber
• Matt Kaplowitz

This interactive workshop will encourage participants to consider multiple aspects of verbal/audio description of different kinds of visual materials-from still images such as paintings and photographs, to moving images in films and video clips, to performances of theater and dance. Participants will join in to critique and dialogue with the verbal description process in several media, offer versions of their own, and suggest ways to incorporate verbal description into the design stage of everyday classroom, performative, and media practices.

4.4 Graduate Student Development Panel

Facilitated by Alberto Guzman, Wisdom Mprah, and Ryan Parrey - room 14-280

• Michael Mark Chemers

BREAKOUT SESSION V. 10:45am-12:00pm

5.1 Disability Arts and Culture: Where are we going? A Seminar

Moderator: Petra Kuppers - room 14-280

In this seminar, we are reviewing pre-circulated papers around themes of disability arts and culture. There will not be formal papers or presentations; this is a place to exchange ideas about the state of the field. Auditors are welcome.

5.2 A Workshop in the Works: "Doing Disability Community History"

• Susan Burch
• David Serlin
• Jean Lindquist Bergey
• Diane Britton
• Ray Pence

This workshop offers an introduction to and practice in “doing” community disability history, including ways of finding, selecting, and judging, non-traditional sources, and techniques for preserving materials and making community history accessible to a wider audience.

5.3 De-localizing Health: Theorizing Epistemologies and Urban Experiences of Disabled Embodiment

Moderator: Michael Rembis - room 14-285

• Katie Aubrecht, “Disability and Homelessness: Down and Out in the Healthy City.”
• Melissa Abbey, “The Hustle and Bustle of the City: Anxiety’s Presence in the Urban Space.”
• Samantha Walsh, “The Unruly Salon: When Beauty Meets Disability.”
• Susan Ferguson, “De-disciplining Pain: Embodiment, Transnational Knowledge Production and the Politics of Location.”

5.4 International Caucus

Moderators: Eunjung Kim and Michele Friedner - room 14-266

LUNCH ROUNDTABLES 12:45pm-1:45pm
(Box lunches will be provided.)

5.5 Whom to Include? Disability Studies and Responsibility to Other Species

• Sunaura Taylor
• Lawrence Carter-Long

5.6 A Student Guide to Activism: Disability Awareness on Campus

room 14-270

• Kathy McMahon-Klosterman

5.7 Disability Studies and Deaf Studies - Toward Ways to Crip Education

room 14-280

• Lars Bruhn
• Jürgen Homann
• Gerlinde Renzelberg
• Anne Venter

5.8 People of Color Caucus

Moderator: Sophia Wong - room 14-220

BREAKOUT SESSION VI. 2:15pm-3:30pm

6.1 Fostering Independence, Fostering Citizenship: Parents, the City, and Cognitive Difference

Moderator: Noam Ostrander - room 14-285

• Jane Bernstein, reading from Rachel in the World
• Clare Dunsford, reading from Spelling Love with an X: A Mother, A Son, and the Gene that Binds Them
• Kristina Chew, reading from Autism Vox
• Ralph James Savarese, reading from Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption

6.2 Employment Policies and Practices for Inclusion and Citizenship

Moderator: Tanya Titchkosky - room 14-270

• Deepti Samant, “Implementation of the UN Convention and implications for employment around the world.”
• Tal Araten Bergman, “Adjusted minimum wage and the employment of people with disability: An International Perspective.”
• Janikke Solstad Vedeler, “Different pathways to employment: the experiences of young adults with disability.”
• Debra Sabatini Dwyer and Bernard J. Wixon, “Barriers to Work Among the Disabled: Factors that Explain Work Patterns Among Those Eligible for Social Security Disability Program.”

6.3 Body Language: A Visual Arts Panel

Moderator: Petra Kuppers - room 14-280

• Laura Ferguson
• Gordon Sasaki

6.4 Immigrants and Others: Disability and the Nation

Moderator: Paula Pinto - room 14-220

• Sagit Mor, “Neglected Stories: Disability, Immigration, and National Imagination.”
• Jay Dolmage, “The Golden Door: Eugenics at Ellis Island.”
• Douglas Baynton, “Defect, Ethnicity, and Appearance: Disabled Immigrants in the American Imagination.”
• Richard Ingram, “Colonialism Doubled: Western Humanism as Interior and Exterior Oppression.”

6.5 PLENARY 4:00pm-5:45pm
“Disability Research and the Role of Anthropologists”

Moderator: Lakshmi Fjord - room 14-220

• Karen Nakamura, “These natives can speak for themselves: Cripping Anthropology and Anthropologizing Disability Studies.”
• Faye Ginsburg (with Rayna Rapp)
• Devva Kasnitz

6.6
FILM SELECTIONS 7:30pm-9:30pm

Disability Shorts

room 14-285

• Carrie Sandahl and Terri Galloway, “Dis(aster)abilities: Special Needs for Special Times.” (6 mins)
• Petra Kuppers and Sadie Wilcox, “Tiresias. A Dancevideo.” (7 mins)
• Alice Eliott, “Body and Soul: Diana and Kathy.” (40 mins)

Documentary Anthropology

room 14-270

• Karen Nakamura: Bethel. A documentary on psychiatric disabilities in Japan (40 mins), with filmmaker Q+A

DisTHIS

room 14-266

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FRIDAY, 20 JUNE

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 8:00am-10am

Hall outside 14-220

MODERATOR TRAINING 8:15am-8:45am

Susan Burch & Alison Kafer - room 14-285

BREAKOUT SESSION VII. 9:00am-10:15am

7.1 Embody This! Disability Studies Scholar-Activists Transform Academia

Moderator: Jay Dolmage - room 14-285

• Lezlie Frye, “Calling Our Embodiment Bluff: Cripping or Crippling Academia?"
• Rachel O’Connell, “Writing as an Embodied Practice.”
• Nancy Viva Davis, “(Leaky) Bodies of Knowledge: Sharing and Shoring Up Vulnerability in the Disability Studies Classroom.”

7.2 Masculinity & Disability, In Print & On Film

Moderator: Michael Gill - room 14-280

• Dominika Bednarska, “Critique Through the City: Examining Ideologies of Gender and Disability in Woolf's Mrs Dalloway.”
• Nadine LeGier, “‘You Saw Me Cross the Bar’: Masculinity, Disability, and the Western in Guy Vanderhaeghe’s The Englishman’s Boy”
• Julie Elman, “Spacesuits in Suburbia: ‘The Bubble Boy,’ Compulsory Able-Bodiedness, and Coming-of-Age.”

7.3 Ethics and Equity in Brain Injury Research & Practice through the lens of Disability Studies

Moderator: Christine Komoroski-McCohnell - room 14-270

• Susan Magasi, “Ethical quandaries of introducing a disability studies intervention in a traumatic brain injury day program.”
• Debjani Mukherjee, “Earning trust in international traumatic brain injury research.”
• Teresa A. Savage, “Prenatal counseling and the fear of brain injury.”

7.4 The Disorienting Orientation of Disability Studies

Moderator: Ryan Parrey - room 14-220

• Anne McGuire, “Confounding Alliances: Orienting to the Disorienting Puzzle of Autism.”
• Jan MacDougall, “Disability’s Place in the Cosmopolitan Space-for-All.”
• Rod Michalko, “A ‘Blind-View’ in the City.”
• Tanya Titchkosky, Discussant.

BREAKOUT SESSION VIII. 10:45am-12:15pm

8.1 Disability Studies Across the Academy: Graduate Student Showcase

Moderator: David Mitchell - room 14-270

• Liat Ben-Moshe (Syracuse) “Dare to Compare? Politics of abolition in Prisons and Institutions.”
• Scott Bowditch (Hawaii), “Conducting Pychometric Research in Hawaii: Exploring the Effectiveness of Culturally Responsive Curricula.”
• Terry Howell Jr. (Hawaii), “Increasing Classroom Learning Outcomes of Postsecondary Students with Disabilities Through Integration of Technology.”
• Michael Mechlowitz (Toledo), “Mississippi Forgotten: Hurricane Katrina’s impact on disabled people in the Gulf Port Area of Mississippi.”
• Krista Paradiso (Ohio State), “Coming Out, Being Myself: Rhetoric and Disability Autobiography.”
• Raphael Raphael (Oregon), “Disability Studies and Film Studies; Critical Intersections.”
• Sarah Smith (Ohio State), “Love, Sex, and Disability: The Ethics and Politics of Care in Intimate Relationships.”
• Melanie Wakefield (Michigan), “Diagnosing Virginia: the Dialectic of Madness in Virginia Woolf.”
• Alison Whyte (Michigan), “Public Health Violence: History and Opportunities for Activism.”

8.2 Speech Impairment, Community Building, and Taking it on the Road

Moderator: Noam Ostrander- room 14-285

• Kelly Munger, “The Importance of Impairment Specific, Experientially-Based Research and Social Support Provision: The Case of Cerebral Palsy.”
• Martina Robinson, “Spotlight on Employment/Spotlight on Medicine.”
• Neil Marcus, “Strategies for Communication.”
• Pamela Block, Hope Block, and Barbara Kilcup, “Autism, Communication and Family.”
• Susan Fitzmaurice and Teddy Fitzmaurice, “Communication Dialogues.”
• Devva Kasnitz, Discussion

8.3Exploring New Frontiers in Disability Research: Emerging Ideas and Methodologies

Moderator: Alison Kafer - room 14-220

• Michele Friedner, “Computers and Magical Thinking: Work as Be-longing for People with Disabilities in Bangalore.”
• Elizabeth Lockwood, “Grassroots Development in a Transnational World: The Mobilization of the Deaf Uruguayan Community.”
• Eunjung Kim, “Global Asexual Community and Disability: Why Asexuality is not a Myth.”

8.4 Human Rights, Disability Rights

Moderator: Paula Pinto - room 14-280

• Omolara Funmilola Akinpelu, “Human rights and persons with disabilities in Nigeria.”
• Hisayo Katsui, “Perception of ‘Human Rights’ by Different Stakeholders in Development Cooperation Activities.”

ROUNDTABLES 12:45pm-1:45pm
(Lunch on own.)

8.5 Recognizing the Synergy between Health Science and Disability Studies

room 14-220

• Stephanie Patterson
• Sharon Cuff
• Kathleen McGoldrick

8.6 The Global Deaf Community: Deaf People in Latin America

room 14-285

• Cristina Berdichevsky
• Buck Rogers

8.7 Disability History Exhibit

room 14-270

• David Mitchell
• Sharon Snyder

8.8 Queer Caucus

Moderator: Alison Kafer - room 14-280

BREAKOUT SESSION IX. 2:15pm-3:15pm

9.1 Working Close to the Bone: A Workshop

room 14-220

Eli Clare

The places in Disability Studies where memory, identity, and history collide are not dispassionate sites of objective study, but rather highly charged locations that beg for activism, culture making, and scholarly focus. This interactive workshop will explore how our work as academics, activists, and artists is strengthened and/or weakened when we encounter these collisions, these places that ask us to work close to the bone. The issues will be framed through examples drawn from the facilitator's recent work on the history of eugenics in the U.S., and participants will be asked to reflect upon their own work.

9.2 Public Policies: Anti-Discrimination Laws

Moderator: Adrienne Asch - room 14-270

• Angelo Marra, “Italian Legal Protection Against Discrimination for Disabled People.”
• Hila Rimon-Greenspan and Sagit Mor, “See you in court…: Ten years anniversary for the Equal Rights for People with Disabilities Law -1998.”
• Jill Anderson, “Just Semantics: The Lost Readings of the ADA.”
• Elizabeth Emens, “Discriminatory Domains: From Work to Street to Sheets.”

9.3 Metaphor, Ethics, Philosophy

Moderator: Pamela Block - room 14-285

• Deborah Little and Traci Levy, “Personal Assistant? Caregiver? A dialog between disability studies and care theory.”
• Eva Kittay, “Ideal Theory Bioethics and the Exclusion of People with Severe Cognitive Disabilities.”
• Sophia Wong, “Non-disabled Siblings as ‘Interpreters’ in Families with Developmental Disabilities.”
• Art Blaser, “Alternative Stem Cell Research Policies: The Transformation of ‘Disability.’”

9.4 Locating Blindness in Time and Space

Moderator: Joan Ostrove - room 14-280

• Siegfried Saerberg, "‘Just Simply Straight Ahead’: Bargaining space between a blind pedestrians and sighted strangers.”
• Ryan Parrey, “‘It’s over there, are you blind?’: Disability, Disorientation, and Encounters with Able-Bodies.”
• Sara Scalenghe, “Blindness in the Arab-Islamic World: A Historical Perspective.”

BREAKOUT SESSION X. 3:45pm-5:00pm

10.1 Rhetorical Approaches to DS: Crip Pets and Conference Accommodation

Moderator: Susan Burch - room 14-285

Amy Vidali, “Crip Pets? Metaphors of Disability in Advertising for Assistive Devices for Dogs.”

Margaret Price, “Inscribing Access: How Accessibility Policy Documents Construct Disability.”

10.2 Locating Disability Studies

Moderator: Chelsey Clammer - room 14-280

• Nwadiogo Ejiogu & Syrus Marcus Ware, “How Disability Studies Stays White and What Kind of White It Stays.”
• Russell Vickery, “An antipodean’s view of Disability Studies from inside and outside of academia.”

10.3 Disability Meets the Criminal Justice System

Moderator: Frank Wyman - room 14-220

• Elizabeth Donaldson, “Kendra’s Law, Goldstein’s Life: Psychiatric Disability and Civil Rights.”
• Leanne Dowse, “Navigating the Maze: Exploring the trajectories of people with MHDCD in the criminal justice system.”
• Judith Mosoff, “Mental Health Courts in the Criminal Justice System: Therapeutic Jurisprudence Meets the Social Model.”

10.4 Eugenic Patterns

Moderator: Michelle Nario-Redmond - room 14-270

• Michael Rembis, “'Girls on City Streets': Sex, Sexuality, and the Social Construction of Mental Deviance.” (Winner of the 2008 Zola Emerging Scholar Award)
• Carlos Drazen and Yashika Watkins, “Teenaged Mutant Violent Crack Babies: Eugenics in the 21st Century.”
• Chris Chapman, “Pro-social skills reconsidered as an ethnocentric and eccentric ‘ethical practice’, institutionalization as a path to future institutionalization, and the inclusion-in-collusion of dissent and heterogeneity.”

OFF-SITE PERFORMANCES 8:00pm-10:00pm

• WELCOME & INTRO - Mat Fraser / MC
• "GIMP", (Excerpt), "Two Men Walking" - Choreographed by: Heidi Latsky
• Danced by: Lawrence Carter-Long & Jeffrey Freeze
• STAGED READING 1 "JURY BY TRIAL" by John Pixely
• "CRIP COP" - LEZLIE FRYE
• STAGED READING 2 "STARING BACK" by Susan Nussbaum & Lawrence Perkins
• Honi Harlow & Mystique Presents: "BAWDVILLE" With Big Bronx & Fortune Cookie
• STAGED READING 3 "THE POOR ITCH" by John Belluso
• "PH*reaks" by Doris Baizley
• (Victoria Lewis and Carrie Sandahl, co-curators and directors of Staged Readings)
• "GIMP", (Excerpt), Untitled Solo - Danced by: Catherine Long
• "STRIPTEASE" - Mat Fraser
• 4 WHEEL CITY

VSA arts of Massachusetts (VSAM) has developed an approach to performing arts that is Inclusive by Design. Originally inspired by the notion of applying the principles of Universal Design to the performing arts, VSAM has devised a new performance genre in which an ensemble is formed with musicians, visual artists, American Sign Language interpreters, audio describers and captioners all creatively contributing to an enhanced multi-media experience that can be enjoyed by everyone. The music explodes with visual content provided not only by the musicians themselves but by the movement of a sign interpreter on stage and the mural painting as it evolves live on stage. The lyrics are printed on an LCD device allowing everyone who can see a look at the poetry behind the music. The visual highlights are recapped for everyone by the audio describer, whose account is shared with everyone, not only with audience members who are blind or have low vision.
Tonight's performances have been modified to provide a taste of this new kind of performance that is Inclusive by Design through a collaboration with VSA arts of New York and the Society for Disability Studies. This project has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and a video titled Universal Design for the Performing Arts was developed with NEA support and is available through VSA arts of Massachusetts.

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SATURDAY, 21 JUNE

BREAKOUT SESSION XI. 9:30am-10:45am

11.1 Contact Zones and Border Crossings: Narrative Negotiations of Deaf and Hearing Worlds

Moderator: Rusty Rosen - room 14-270

• Kristen Harmon, “‘Something Secret and Superstitious’: Deafness and Gender in Wilkie Collins’s Hide and Seek.”
• Paige Franklin, “Surrealism and Real: Silenced and Silent in ‘Talking Horse.’”
• Jennifer Nelson, "Bearing the Word: Linguistic Colonialism in de Musset's Pierre and Camille."

11.2 Sex, Gender, and Disability

Moderator: Michael Rembis - room 14-220

• Augustina Naami, “Empowering Women with Disabilities in Ghana.”
• Stacey Coffman, “(DIS)ability: Moving Disability, Identity, and Sexuality Out of Parentheses.”
• Wisdom Mprah, “Who Decides? The Right of Disabled Persons to Sexual Rights in Ghana.”
• Michael Gill, “Sex can wait, masturbate; Or, the ABCs of masturbation for intellectually disabled individuals.”

11.3 Disability Studies in/and Education

Moderator: Pamela Block - room 14-270

• Susan Baglieri, “Looking like a teacher; Writing like a graduate student: Troubling ‘The Gaze’ in Teacher Education.”
• Junko Teruyama, “Global Trends, Local Politics: Contextualizing the Experience of ‘Developmental Disability’ in Japan.”
• Kathryn Young, “Social Context of Space, Race, and Disability.”

11.4 Writing Resistant Practices

Moderator: Bruce Henderson - room 14-285

• Shannon Walters, “Place, Space and the Tactile Writing Process of People with Disabilities.”
• Cheryl Kaplan, “The Unspeakable Series: Out Loud.” - [cancelled]
• Laura Thrasher, “Encounters with Difference: Disability in Life Narratives.”

BREAKOUT SESSION XII. 11:15am-12:30pm

12.1 Disability and the War in Iraq: Disabled Veterans, History, and Culture

Moderator: Michele Friedner - room 14-270

• David Serlin, “Performing Disabled Masculinities at Walter Reed from WWII to the Iraq War.”
• Ellen Samuels, “Narrative Invalidity: From Gulf War Syndrome to the Iraq Vet Borderline Personality Scandal.”
• Megan V. Davis, “Images of Sovereignty: Disabled American Soldiers and the Excesses of US Global Imperialism.”
• Respondent: David Gerber

12.2 Cultural Studies: Media, Metaphor, Message

Moderator: Cynthia Wu - room 14-280

• Zosha Stuckey, “Lavinia Magri and the Rhetoric of Civic ‘Fitness’ in 19th Century Freak Shows.”
• Kathleen LeBesco, “Ideologies of Disability in Friday Night Lights.”
• Bruce Henderson, “Adaptation and Disability Subjectivity: Julian Schnabel's ‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’”
• Margaret Fink, “Imagining an Idiosyncratic Belonging: Representing Disability in Chris Ware's Building Stories.”

12.3 Theoretical Approaches: What is Disability and Disability Studies?

Moderator: Ryan Parrey - room 14-266

• Elizabeth Depoy and Stephen Gilson, “Designer Disability: Rethinking Disability through Contemporary Design Theory.” - [Elizabeth Depoy unable to present]
• Linda Edwards, “Feminist Disability Studies and John Monies Theory of Intersex”
• Barbara Gibson, “‘Techno-body-subjects in situ’: Exploring relationships between disability, technology, and place.”
• Kelly Fritsch, “Entanglement, Affect and a Poetics of Disability.”

12.4 Performing in Space

Moderator: Petra Kuppers - room 14-285

• Marian Lupo, “In Alphabet City, Where ‘C’ Stands for ‘Crip’: A Performance.”
• Jennifer Eisenhauer, “Admission: Madness and (Be)coming Out Within and Through Actual and Virtual Spaces of Confinement.”
• Anne Finger, “Spastic Walking.”

12.5 SDS BUSINESS MEETING 1:00pm-2:15pm -
(Buffet lunch will be provided.)

room 14-220

• Facilitator: Elaine Gerber, SDS President

All attendees are welcome - come get involved in the future of SDS! Members of the executive board will present ideas about current and future SDS happenings, with time for feedback and dialogue with all SDS members.

12.6 PLENARY 2:45pm-4:00pm
“Disability in/and Visual Arts”

Moderator: Gordon Sasaki - room 14-220

• Katherine Sherwood
• Sunny Taylor
• Lihua Lei
• Riva Lehrer

BREAKOUT SESSION XIII. 4:30pm-5:45pm

13.1 Picturing Disability: Performance on Photography, Photography as Performance

Moderator: Michael Gill - room 14-270

• Tracy Whitfield-Sochan, “Standards of Focus: Looking through the Lens of a Visually Impaired Photographer.”
• Petra Kuppers, “The Tiresias Project: Disability, Erotics, Art.”
• Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, “The Politics of Picturing Disability.”

13.2 Teaching Disability Studies

Moderator: Elaine Gerber - room 14-266

• Charley Lane, “Disability Studies and Independent Living: A Burgeoning Union.”
• Daniel Werges, “Integrating Critical Disability Studies into Social Work Education.”
• Fiona Kumari Campbell, “Medical Education and Disability Studies.”

13.3 Identity in Location, Locating Politics

Moderator: Cynthia Wu - room 14-285

• Debra Swoboda, “The Politics of Identity in MCS and Environmental Illness Cybercommunities.”
• Paula Pinto, “'Sex and the City': Negotiating Disability, Motherhood and Belonging.”
• Joan Ostrove, Gina Oliva, and Kendrick Brown, “Identifying allies: Explorations in the domains of disability and race.”

13.4 Locating Community, Community Living

Moderator: Susan Burch - room 14-280

• Allison Carey, “Establishing the Right to Live in the Community: What's the debate?”
• Ramesh Gulatee, “Socially-Responsive Architecture: Case Study of Live/Work/Play Environment for Special Needs Community.”
• Kristin Bjornsdottir and Rannveig Traustadottir, “Stuck in the Land of Disability: Young Adults with Intellectual Disabilities in a Cosmopolitan World."

13.5
POSTERS / RECEPTION 6:00pm-8:00pm

room 14-220

• Kristin Bjornsdottir, “Young Icelandic Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: Identity, Gender, and Culture.”
• Kate Caldwell, "Care Machines: A Qualitative Analysis of Families of Children with Intellectual Disabilities."
• Pamela Cushing and Tyler Smith, “A Global Review of the Scope and Character of Disability Studies in English-Speaking Countries”

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• Scot Danforth, “A Meet-and-Greet with the Editors of DSQ: Disability Studies Quarterly.”
• Carlos Drazen and Yashika Watkins, “Medicalizing Minor Maladies.”
• Thomas J. Gerschick and Holly Aldrich, "Sex, Gender and Disability: Mapping the Landscape"
• Elizabeth Kolbe, “Framing Disability in a Policy Context.”
• Mark Moore, “Sources of Urbanized Employment for People with Disabilities: Opening the Entertainment and Sport”
• Corbett O’Toole, “Why Berkeley? Independent Living Origins”
• Justin Powell and Liat Ben-Moshe, “Symbolizing Accessibility: Revis(it)ing the International Symbol of Access.”
• Christopher Robertson, “Inclusive Education: Time to Shed its Sedentary Past.”
• Rusty Rosen, “The Sensory World of the Deaf.”
• Julie-Ann Scott, “Yes, I’m the Expert: A Performance of Identity Analysis of the Narratives of Physically Disabled Professionals.”
• Sola Shelly, “Autistic Community and Culture: The Israeli Case.”
• Jitka Sinecka, “Physical, social and virtual access: Cosmopolitan postcards from Prague and New York City.”
• Nina Slota and Beata Pezacka, “Doing and Thinking: Everyday Physical Therapy and Cognitive Rehabilitation in the City.”
• Janice Sniffen, Raymond McKenna, Richard Johnson, and Lisa Johnson, “Partnering to Design and Implement a Wellness Program for Children Surviving Cancer.”
• Society for Disability Studies: Meet-and Greet with the SDS Board
• Inger Solheim, “Activity-Also for Disabled Children?”
• Regina Varin-Mignano, “The Experiences and Perceptions of Social Support by Single Mothers of Children and Adults Diagnosed with Autism.”
• Gail S. Werblood, "Frida Kahlo Visits the Big Apple: Memoirs of Experiences in New York City".

SDS DANCE 8:00pm-12:00am

first floor multipurpose room

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