VariAbilities 2015
The History and Representation
of the Body in its diversity
University of Winchester
20-22 July 2015
Monday 20th July
10:00 – Welcome: This and all panels will be in the John Stripe Studio
10.30 – 12.00 Panel Session 1: Finding Variable Bodies
Chair – Jason Farr
· Adelaide Morris: Well! Do you remember this man?: establishing characters’ sexual identity in a critically creative work through textual intervention
· Phillip Hickman: Queer[ing] my own body – How a photograph discloses something of my own human individuality
· Rose Drew: Lives of Deprivation or Lives of Industry: Possible Cerebral Palsy on the Mary Rose
12:00 -13:30 – Lunch
13.30 – 14.30 – Keynote: Variability
Welcome and Introduction by Joy Carter
Vice Chancellor – University of Winchester
Irina Metzler : “In/Dis-Ability: A Medievalist’s Perspective”
14:30 – 14:45 – Refreshment Break
14:45 – 16:15: Panel Session 2: Variable Performance
Chair – Stan Booth
· Chris Mounsey: When is a metaphor not a metaphor? An exercise in reading late seventeenth century novels
· Charlotte Purkis: Displaced theatres of forgotten fantasies: unearthed bodily (re)imaginings from experimental desires of Modernist culture
· Simon Jarrett: ”Beetlehead – a dull heavy blockhead”: the role of jokes and slang in forming ideas of idiocy in the eighteenth century
16:15 – 16:30 – Refreshment Break
16:30 – 17:30 Panel Session 3: Variable Ethics/Aesthetics
Chair – Adleen Crappo
· Petra Kuppers: Ethics Beyond Troubling: Towards Queer(ed) (Vari)Ability: Salamandering: Beyond Mother Earth
· Patricia Skinner: What is a ‘Normal’ Face? The Variables of Disfigurement
Dinner – (optional)
Tuesday 21st July
10:00 – 11.00 – Panel Session 4: Modern and Pre-modern Variability
Chair – Stan Booth
· Adleen Crapo: Premodern Disability: Towards an Ethics of Queered, Disabled Spaces
· Christina
Welch: Representing ‘Queer’ Women: Troubling Variabilities in the
presentation of Saatjie Bartman
and
· Millie-Christine
11.00 – 11.30 – Refreshment Break
11.30 – 13.00 Panel Session 5: QPVI @ VII:
Transiting race, gender and biomedical intervention
through/on/with performance as research
Chair – Chris Mounsey
· Alba Pons Rabasa: “Embodied/ACTIONS Drag” an Embodied research proposal
· Daniel Brittany Chávez: Embodied Transfeminism, Or Ways of Decolonializing Gender Performativities in the Americas
· Caro Novella: Transcorporear
13.00-14:30 – Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 Panel Session 6: Variable Senses
Chair – Adelaide Morris
· Jason Farr: Duncan Campbell, Death Literacy and Second Sight
· Katherine Kittredge: “The mole needs not the eagle’s eye”:
· Depictions of Blindness in Children’s Prose and Poetry, 1790-1835
· Saralyn Anne Russell: “Sexuality, Sight, and Self:
Theorizing Life Writing by Blind and Visually Impaired Women.”
16:00 – 16.30 Refreshments
16.30 – 18.00 Panel Session 7: Variable Physicalities
Chair – Chris Mounsey
· Stan Booth: LESS is More: Impaired in the Body, Reduced in the Story?
· Janet Ravenscroft: From Head to Foot: Looking at Dwarfism and the Poor
· Miriam Wallace: Improper Conjunctions: Legal Fictions, Crim. Con., and 18th-Century Satirical Prints
18:00 Closing Comments
Acknowledgements
VariAbilit(ies) would like to thank
the following for their help and support
in taking the conference series forward.
Joy Carter – Vice Chancellor
Inga Bryden – Head of RKE, Faulty of Arts.
Gemma Robbins
and her Conferences team
University of Winchester Catering