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Composing Disability 2015-2016
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Thursday 7 April 2016
1:00-2:30 KEYNOTE: "Beyond the plate: Using food as a tool to end oppression," LaDonna Redmond (Jack Morton)
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Environmental Justice (Jack Morton)
- Joshua Kupetz (U Michigan), “Disability Ecologies, Urban Infulstructures, and Generic Fictions: or Watching the Detectives in Colson Whitehead’s the Intuitionist (1999) and Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn (1999)”
- Jina B. Kim (U Michigan), “Unsupported Lives: Witnessing, Infrastructural Neglect, and Environmental Injustice in Detroit and New Orleans”
- Jessica Cowing (College of William and Mary), “Dis/ability, Indigeneity, and Future Ecologies in Avatar”
Non-Human Natures (Duques 152)
- Maria Junttila Carson (Syracuse U), “Affects of Bodies, Flowers, and God”
- Derek Newman-Stille (Trent U) and Haylie Swenson (GWU), “Desiring Animal-Mediated Environments: ‘Fake’ Guide Dogs and the Work of the Pet”
- Nisrine Chaer (Lebanon), “Thus Spoke the Zbeileh’ to the Becoming-Indiseis Assemblage: A Deleuzoguattarian Account of the Political Protest in Lebanon”
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4:45-6:00 Biopolitics: Law, Life, Land, Love (Jack Morton, Sponsored by GW MEMSI)
- 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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Friday 8
April 2016
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Media Ecologies (Duques 152)
- Shannon Wooden (Missouri State U), “’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 U), “Mormon Sex Lives: Discourses on Disability, Capitalism, and Sexuality”
Crip Environments (Jack Morton)
- Louise Hickman, (U California, San Diego), “Distributing Crip Sociality”
- Ynestra King, “Ecological Consciousness, Vulnerability and Telling Dirty Stories: “Listening with the Whole Body in Mind: The Women and Disability Documentary Project”
- Jessica L. Murgel (Gallaudet U), “Deaf Resistance: Reconstituting the Center of Academic Discourse”
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11:15-12:30 KEYNOTES: "Healthy Objects, Hygienic Futures: Medical Inspection and the BuiltEnvironment in Mexico," Susan Antebi, and “Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation, ”Sunaura Taylor (Jack Morton)
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12:30-2:00 LUNCH (Not provided)
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2:00-3:00 Student Panel (Jack Morton)
- 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."
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3:30-4:45 Breakout session
Toxic Ecologies (Jack Morton)
- M.W. Bychowski (GWU), “Toxic Environments: the Place and Genre of the Transgender Suicide Note”
- Kelly Fritsch (U of Toronto), “Cripping Toxic Futures: Disability, Ecology, and the Economization of Life”
- Sara D. Schotland (Georgetown U), “Death in the Waters: Reading ‘A Summer Tragedy’ as an Incidence of Suicide by Vulnerable African-American Patients.”
Crip/Queer Embodiments (Media & Public Affairs 132)
- Sukshma Vedere (GWU), “Re-Writing Gender and Madness in Cereus Blooms at Night”
- Kevin Gotkin (U Penn), “ Breathing Techniques”
- Sharon Snyder and David Mitchell (GWU) "Precarity and Cross-Species Identifications: Autism, Crip/Queer Bodies, and the Critique of Normative Cognition"
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5:15-6:30 Digital Amphibians: Parallel Lives and Media Publics (Jack Morton, Sponsored by GW DH Institute)
- Alexis Lothian (University of Maryland), fandom, social justice, digital media: http://www.queergeektheory.org/
- David Perry (Dominican University), disability journalist and activist/author: http://www.thismess.net/
- Rachel Vorona Cote, freelance writer: https://tinyletter.com/rachvc
- Alice Wong (virtually from UCSF), director of the Disability Visibility Project: http://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/author/alwong199/
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7:00 Poetry Reading (Smith Hall of Art, Gallery 102)
- Cathy Eisenhower
- Tolonda Henderson
- Mel Nichols
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