Composing Disability 2016: Crip Ecologies!

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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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3:00-4:15 Breakout session

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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Sunaura Taylor

Susan Antebi

Friday 8 

April 2016

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9:30-10:45 Breakout session

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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