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“Boundaries of Disability” - An Interdisciplinary Symposium, Friday, February 25, 2011


Morning Session
Location: Helen C. White, Room 4207
Afternoon Session
Location: John D. Wiley Conference Center, Waisman Center
  • 9 - 9:30 am: Opening Remarks

    Walton O. Schalick, III, and Ellen Samuels

  • 9:30 - 10:30: am Panel

    Teryl Dobbs, "Dis/Entangling Variations upon the Theme of Exclusion: Dis/Ability and Music Education"

    Aydin Bal, "Activity Systems and Boundary Objects: Systems of Disability"

  • 10:30 - 12:00 Noon: Panel

    Liz Ellcessor, "Disability Online: Policies, Practices, and Representations of Embodied Media Use"

    Manuel Herrero-Puertas, "Freak Bodies Politic"

    Todd Michelson-Ambelang, "Idiots, 'Wooden-Foot' and a Grumpy Old Man: Reading Disabilities in the Saga of the Icelanders"

    Bridget Collins, "Rheumatic Fever and Disability History"

    Judith Houck, response
  • 1:30 - 2:30 pm: Panel

    Jay Martin, "Disability and Technology"

    Bobbi Wolfe, "The Problems with Designed Public Labor Market Policy for Persons with Disabilities"

    Linda Hogle, response

  • 2:30 - 3:30 pm: Panel

    Jenell Johnson, "Emotional Disability and the Logic of Lobotomy"

    Eunjung Kim, "The Specter of Vulnerability and Bodies in Protest"

    Noah Feinstein, response

  • 3:30 - 4:00 pm: Closing Remarks

    Steven Stern, "Whither Disability Studies? Thoughts on the Circle of We the Community"

(Please click here to download a symposium poster in PDF format)



Sponsors: Disability Studies Cluster, Financial Literacy & Disability (FLAD)
(Social Security Administration), and the Waisman Center


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