Hi Claudia --
Here's a hearty endorsement for Gregor Wolbring. Impressive, rousing,
committed, and original researcher. But to demonstrate the upstart work
available in Calgary on disability issues I'm also following up with a
posting of the line-up for a disability and film symposium to be held
there next week (Jan. 28-30). The organizers would likely have good
suggestions for you, too. Or maybe you're nearby enough to stop over
for a bit? My apologies for fuzzy geographical knowledge of the area.
My very best, Sharon
University of Calgary
Symposium on Film and Disability Studies
FRIDAY
4:00 – 4:30 pm. Registration and Book Display
4:30 – 4:45 pm. Welcome and Introductory Remarks: Dr. Rowland Smith,
Dean of Humanities
4:45 – 6:30 pm. Chair: Nicole Markotić
Plenary Speakers:David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder: “‘How Do We Get All
These Disabilities in Here?’Disability Film Festivals as New Collective
Spaces of Political ‘Simultaneity’”
8:00 – 9:00 pm
Reading Event. Hosted by: Suzette Mayr, co-sponsored by the English
Department Speakers committee.
Featured reader: Aritha van Herk
Short readings by Chris Ewart, André Rodrigues, Jordan Scott
SATURDAY
9:00 – 10:30 am. Chair: Murray McGillivray
Key-note Address:Sally Chivers: “Move! You’re in the Way: Disability
and Age Meet on Screen”
11:00 am – 12:30 pm. Chair: Jacqueline Jenkins
Panel: Teaching and Disability
1 – Nina Robins: “Promoting Self-Representation in Film or People with
Traumatic Brain Injury”
2 – Ben MacPhee-Sigurdson: “Representations of the Body and Fragments
of Self in the Films of Charlie Kaufman”
3 – Mike Gill: “Hush: What Buffy the Vampire Slayerhas to say about
Disability Studies Pedagogy”
2:00 – 3:30 pm. Chair: Clara Joseph
Panel: Disability and the Postcolonial Body
1 – Rob Budde: “‘Valuable Deformity’ and other metaphors of
Postcolonial Debt in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India”
2 – Michelle Jarman and Eunjung Kim: “Modernity’s Rescue Mission:
Postcolonial Transactions of Disability and Sexuality”
4:00 – 5:30 pm. Chair: Pamela McCallum
Panel: Normalizing Narrative
1 – Charlene Diehl: “Making a Problem of the Problem Body: Guy Maddin’s
The Saddest Music in the World”
2 – Vanessa Lent: “Dismembering and Remembering: Amputation and Amnesia
in the Films of Guy Maddin”
3 – Chris Ewart: “‘Can a Full Grown Woman Truly Love a Midget?’
Freaksand the Problem of ‘Normal’”
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm. Chair: Vern Reynolds-Braun
Three Short Film screenings, discussion to follow.
Co-presented by “Picture This…” Canada’s 1st disability film festival.
SUNDAY
9:00 – 10:30 am. Chair: Jeanne Perreault
Panel: Gender and Conflict
1 – Carolyn Tyjewski: “The Male Rapunzel in Film: The Intersections of
Disability, Gender, Race, and Sexuality”
2 – Ray Pence: “‘We don’t belong here’: Disability and Normative
Identities in three U.S.-Vietnam War films”
3 – Lori Rowlett: “The Extraordinary Male Body and Constructions of
Masculinity in Coming Homeand Born on the 4th of July”
10:30 – 11:30 am. Chair: Nicole Markotic
Wrap-up, summary, and conclusion. All-inclusive participation.
> At 09:24 AM 1/22/2005, you wrote:
>> Our Alberta (in Canada) university is looking for a speaker on
>> disability
>> issues. So far, the suggested speakers have been fairly predictable -
>> sympathetic, mainly business or self-help related motivational
>> speakers
>> who focus on the ability to triumph in spite of all obstacles laid in
>> one's path. This type of speaker would be in keeping with the kind of
>> speaker that the university brings in each year - male,
>> mobility-challenged, inspiring, and pointedly non-political.
>>
>> I am on the committee that will organize the talk this year, and I'd
>> like
>> to expand the boundaries to include someone who will speak to the
>> politics
>> of disability, and who might even make people feel angry or guilty or
>> thoughtful rather than simply warm and fuzzy. I wonder if anyone from
>> Canada has any suggestions?
>>
>> Best,
>> Claudia Malacrida
>> Sociology
>> University of Lethbridge
>> 4401 University Drive
>> Lethbridge, Alberta
>> T1K 3M4
>>
>> Tel: (403) 329-2738
>> Fax: (403) 329-2085
>>
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Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Disability Studies
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