VariAbilities 2013
Decatur, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.
Wednesday 3rd July
3.00
Check-in begins at the Marriott Courtyard Hotel, Decatur, GA
Thursday 4th July
8.30-9.00 Continental Breakfast
9.00-9.30 Welcome: Chris Mounsey
This and all sessions will be in the
Conference Suite (Henry Oliver F)
9.30-11.00 Panel Session 1: The Early History of Disability
Chair: Madeline Sutherland-Meier, University of Texas at Austin
· Adleen Crapo, University of Toronto - Exemplary Embodiment: Cervantes, Milton, and Classical Culture.
· Wendy Turner, Augusta State University - Medieval Mental Health: An Overview.
· Jamie Kinsley, Auburn University - Religious Poetry and the Voice of Chronic Pain in Bannerman’s ‘Ode III: To Pain’: Implications for Eighteenth-Century Disability Studies.
11.00 – 11.15 Break
11.15-12.30 Plenary Session 1:
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University - Disability Things.
12.30-2.30 Lunch
2.30-4.00 Panel Session 2: Disabling Science
Chair: Miriam Wallace, New College of Florida
· Claire Laville - Emory University - Apart from Experience: In Gertrude Stein’s Laboratory.
· Stan Booth, University of Winchester - Paralysis: From Care to Cure.
· Aimi Hamraie, Emory University - Universal Design: Redefining the Range.
4.00-4.30 Break
4.30-6.00 Panel Session 3: Keywords:
Towards a Critical Vocabulary of Disability Studies
Chair: Adam Newman, Emory University
· Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University - Keywords: Not an Encyclopedia.
· Benjamin Reiss, Emory University - Keyword: Disability.
· David Serlin, University of California, San Diego - Representing Disability Studies.
Friday 5th July
8.30-9.30 Continental Breakfast
9.30-11.00 Panel Session 4: Body Shape
Chair: Jason Farr, University of California – San Diego
· Paul Kelleher, Emory University - Deformity: Moral and Corporeal.
· Miriam Wallace, New College of Florida - Oration and the Awkward Body: Satirizing Speakers from 1750–1790.
· Susanne Hamscha, University of Goettingen - Crip Aesthetics: Failure, Negativity, and the Freakish Body.
11.00 – 11.15 Break
11.15-12.30 Plenary Session 2:
Michael Davidson, University of California, San Diego - The Rage of Caliban: Missing Bodies in Modernist Aesthetics.
12.30-2.30 Lunch
2.30 – 4.00 Panel Session 5: Nineteenth-Century Disability
Chair:
Jamie Kinsley, Auburn University
· Corey Goergen, Emory University - “Who am I! only a Freke!”: Contagious Monstrosity in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda.
· Jill Summerville, Ohio State University - Bitter Weeds and Rue: Physical Desire and Desirability in Elizabeth Barrett.
· Clare Walker-Gore, Cambridge University - “Am I Really Deformed?”: Disability as a Social Construct in the Novels of Dinah Mulock Craik.
4.00 – 4.30 Break
4.30 – 6.00 Panel Session 6: Iberia
Chair:
Jared Richman, Colorado College
· Eduardo Gregori, University of Wisconsin, Marathon County – Corporeality, Subjectivity and the Avant-Garde: Ramón Gómez de la Serna.
· Janet Ravenscroft, Independent Scholar - Picturing Difference in Early Modern Spain.
· Madeline Sutherland-Meier, University of Texas at Austin - Toward a History of the Blind in Spain.
Saturday 6th July
8.30-9.30 Continental Breakfast
9.30 – 11.00 Panel Session 7: Contemporary Versions of Disability
Chair:
George Gordon-Smith, Emory University
Chris Mounsey, University of Winchester - VariAbility: Towards a Discourse of the Body.
Sian Bride, University of Winchester - Embodying the Abnormal: Exploring the Legality and Sexuality of Difference/ Disability Through the Tattooed Body.
Amanda Cachia, University of California, San Diego - The Abject Disabled Misplaced in Contemporary Art.
11.00 – 11.15 Break
11.15-12.30 Plenary Session 3: Helen Deutsch, University of California, Los Angeles
Disability, Irony,
Untimeliness: The Lateness of Jonathan Swift
12.30 – 2.30 Lunch
2.30 – 4.00 Panel Session 8: Defining Disability
Chair: Corey Goergen, Emory University
· Victoria Brown, Northumbria University - “Rendered incapable of use”: Competing Definitions of Disability Amongst Coal Miners in the North East of England, 1862-1936.
· Jason Farr, University of California – San Diego - Seeing Sound: Deafness in the Early Eighteenth Century.
· Jared Richman, Colorado College - Disabling Authority: Stutterance and Royal Elocution in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
4.00 – 4.15 Break
4.15 – 5.45 Panel Session 9: American Disability
Chair:Stan Booth, University of Winchester
· George Gordon-Smith, Emory University,Disability and the Middle Passage: Ambiguous Impairment and the Production of Dependence on the Slave Ship
· Laurel Daen, College of William & Mary,The Dis/Abilities of Martha Ann Honeywell: A Case Study in Self-Presentation in Antebellum America
· Adam Newman, Emory University,Rolling Through the Holy City on a Goat-Cart: Race, Mobility, and the Disabled Black Flâneur in Dubose Heyward’s Porgy
5:45-6.00 Closing Remarks