Archive of Events and News

2008

  • Friday September 5th 12-1.30pm Henkels Interdisciplinary Visiting Speaker and Luncheon
    • Professor Lennard Davis, Disability and Obsession: Can a Psychiatric Impairment Have a History? Professor of English, Professor of Disability and Human Development in the School of Applied Health Sciences, and Professor of Medical Education in the College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago. Professor Davis is also the director of Project Biocultures. All are welcome. Abstract of Paper
  • Thursday October 2nd (12-1.30, 119 O’Shaughnessy): Visiting Speaker Paper
    • Professor Michael A. Rembis, “Doing Disability History: Gender, Power, and the Social Construction of Impairment”. Director, Disability Studies Initiative, Adjunct Faculty, Department of History, University of Arizona, winner of the Society for Disability Studies’ Irving K. Zola Award for Emerging Scholars (2008). Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts.
  • Friday October 3rd 12-1.30pm Visiting Speaker Paper and Luncheon
    • Professor Michael A. Rembis, “Accessing the Academy: Developing Disability Studies in a University Context” Director, Disability Studies Initiative, Adjunct Faculty, Department of History, University of Arizona, winner of the Society for Disability Studies’ Irving K. Zola Award for Emerging Scholars (2008). Lunch is sponsored by Disability Services
    • Dinner with Professor Michael Rembis 6 for 6.30, Oak Room, South Dining Hall. Please RSVP to Essaka Joshua ejoshua@nd.edu (for faculty, administrators and postgraduates)
  • November 7th 12-1.30pm Faculty Paper and Luncheon: Professor Candida Moss (Program of Liberal Studies) “Christ (and) the Disabled: Embodiment in the Gospel of Mark” Lunch is sponsored by the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts.

2009

  • January 16th 12-1.30pm Reading group and Luncheon
  • February 6th 12-1.30pm 30 minute paper followed by luncheon: Professor Encarnación Juárez-Almendros (Department of Romance Languages): “Aging Women and Disability in Pre-Modern Spanish Literature” Lunch is sponsored by the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, the Department of Romance Languages and the Medieval Institute. Notre Dame Room, La Fortune.
  • March 6th 9am-5.45pm Blindness:A Symposium, McKenna Hall: Dr Marc Maurer (President of the National Federation of the Blind and ND alum) Keynote Speaker; Professor Edward Wheatley, (Surtz Professor of Medieval Literature, Loyola University, Chicago) Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind: Constructions of a Disability in Medieval England and France; * Dr Essaka Joshua (SPF, College Seminar and Department of English) Blind vacancy: Sighted Culture and Voyeuristic Historiography in Mary Shelley’s _Frankenstein

Archive of News

  • Logan Center Artwork on Display at Notre Dame, WNDU-TV, November 20, 2008
  • Joseph McMahon, “Disability Seminar Hosts Art Show: Students Team up With Logan Center As Part of Course Project”, The Observer , November 21, 2008
  • Madeline Buckley, “Students Ship Packages to Troops: Seminar on Mental
    and Physical Disabilities Join Autistic Teens to Help Troops,”     The
    Observer     , 14 November 2008
  • Disability Studies Forum on Facebook, October 2008
    Professor Candida Moss launches a Facebook group to enable students and faculty from a wide range of disciplines to discuss disability issues. Click here to join the group.
  • Mike Rooney, " Disability Conference ," Scholastic Magazine , October 2008
    Notre Dame oldest student magazine (established 1867) reports on Professor Michael Rembis’s (University of Arizona) contributions to the Forum’s series of research and discussion papers.
  • Disability Studies Journals: September 2008
    Notre Dame Library is to subscribe to the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies.
  • The Library Collection: August 2008
    The library will be acquiring a substantial number of books on disability studies thanks to generous funding by Arts and Letters and by ISLA. This new collection will enable the Disability Studies Forum and research in the field of disability studies to flourish at Notre Dame. Archive of Events Meetings Minutes (password protected)
  • Gail Mancini, “Teaching and Learning through the Lens of Disabilities”, ND Works , March 2008
    Article on Essaka Joshua’s Disability College Seminar.
  • Becky Hogan, " Disability Class Reaches Out to Community: College Seminar Combines Disability Studies with Service at South Bend’s Logan Center ", The Observer , January 2008
    Article on service learning in Essaka Joshua’s Disability College Seminar.
  • Susan Guibert, " New Course Examines Disability from an Interdisciplinary Perspective ," Notre Dame Newswire: January 2008 Article on Essaka Joshua’s Disability College Seminar.