Visiting Speaker Papers, Faculty Papers, Student Papers and Reading Groups
Disability Studies Forum
Fall 2009
In order to advance our commitment to inter-disciplinary research and inquiry into disability, the Disability Studies Forum is delighted to announce an exciting series of speakers. The events will begin with a presentation of between 40 minutes to an hour, followed by a discussion. Please note that there are various venues and dates but the time is always 3.00pm-4.30pm.
Wednesday 2 September, 3.00-4.30, 107 Malloy Hall
Sami Schalk, “Villainous Victims and Victimized Villains: Disability in Wuthering Heights” Notre Dame MFA Candidate in Creative Writing and Gender Studies
Wednesday 14 October, 3.00-4.30, Notre Dame Room, LaFortune
Margrit Shildrick, “Critical Disability Studies: challenging the conventions” The Henkels Distinguished Visiting Speaker
Reader in Gender Studies at Queens University, Belfast and Adjunct Professor of Critical Disability Studies at York University, Toronto and author of Leaky Bodies and Boundaries: Feminism, (bio)ethics and Postmodernism; Feminist Theory and the Body: A Reader; Vital Signs: Feminist Reconfigurations of The Bio/Logical Body; and Ethics of the Body.
Wednesday 4 November, 3.00-4.30, Gold Room (306), LaFortune
Mike Clemente “The Impairments of the Social Model of Disability”
Winner of the 2009 Disability Studies Senior Thesis Prize, Notre Dame
Wednesday 2 December, 3.00-4.30, Gold Room (306), LaFortune
Professor Michael Rembis, “Athlete First: A Note on Passing, Disability, and Sport”
Visiting Scholar in the History Department and the American Studies Department, Notre Dame
Spring 2010
3 February to be arranged 119 O’Shaughnessy
3 March David T. Mitchell (Temple University) and Sharon Snyder (University of Illinois at Chicago) title to be confirmed. Co-authors of Cultural Locations of Disability (2006); Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependency of Discourse (2000); co-editors of The Body and Physical Difference: Discourses of Disability (1997). Series editors of Corporealities: Discourses of Disability, University of Michigan Press. David Mitchell’s field is English and Cultural Studies, he is a former president of the Society for Disability Studies and is currently the Head of the Institute on Disabilities at Temple University. Sharon Snyder works in the field of Film Studies and Literature. Gold Room (306) LaFortune
7 April Jeremy Schipper, title to be arranged Temple University. Author of Parables and Conflict in the Hebrew Bible (2009), Disability Studies and the Hebrew Bible: Figuring Mephibosheth in the David Story (2006); Co-editor of This Abled Body; Disability in the Hebrew Bible (2007) Schipper’s research focuses on the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). He is particularly interested in the Former Prophets (Joshua-2 Kings) and the portrayal of disability in the Hebrew Bible and related ancient Near Eastern texts. He serves as the co-chair of the “Disability Studies and Healthcare in the Bible and Near East” session of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL). His current book project examines the function of parables in the Hebrew Bible. He received the SBL’s Regional Scholars Award for 2007 for a paper on parables. 119 O’Shaughnessy
5 May Tobin Siebers, “The Aesthetics of Human Disqualification.” V. L. Parrington Collegiate Professor, Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Author of Disability Aesthetics (forthcoming),Disability Theory (2008), The Subject and Other Subject: On Ethical, Aesthetic and Political Identity (1998), Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism (1993), Morals and Stories (1992), The Ethics of Criticism (1988), The Romantic Fantastic (1984); and The Mirror of Medusa (1983). Editor of The Body Aesthetic: From Fine Art to Body Modification (2000), Heterotopia: Postmodern Utopia and the Body Politic (1994); Co-editor of Religion and the Authority of the Past (1993). He has written over fifty essays on Hannah Arendt, Jane Austen, de Man, Derrida, Freud, Goethe, Kant, Lacan, Nietzsche, Rousseau, the fantastic, multiculturalism, ethics, feminism, postmodernism, beauty and the sublime, narrative theory, sexuality, pain, and disability studies. He is currently working on visual culture, a co-history of aesthetics and ideology, and disability studies. 119 O’Shaughnessy
News
Michael Rembis has been appointed as a Visiting Scholar to the Department of History and the Department of American Studies. Read more about his research interests here