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Disability, Narrative and the Law
February 16-17, 2006
Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
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What is the role of personal narrative in effectively advancing the cause of disability rights, whether in individual cases or in arenas of legislation and policy making?
Keynote address: Hon. Tony Coelho, Chairman of the Board, The Epilepsy Foundation, and former Member, U.S. House of Representatives
This unique public interdisciplinary conference will draw together researchers from law and the humanities to explore how themes of autonomy and dependency, "normal" and "abnormal," innocence and fault, sameness and difference all play out in legal discussions about disability and in the self-understanding of persons with disabilities. We will also feature outstanding practitioners to analyze how personal experience narratives concerned with disability bear on actual legal practice, how legal arguments get translated back into individuals' accounts of being disabled, and how tensions may arise between the highly individualized, personal experience of disability and the necessity of developing a pragmatic legal definition of disability under relevant statutory and case law.
The conference is being organized collaboratively by the Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies at the Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University Department of English, the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, and the Office of the ADA Coordinator and supported by grants from the Ohio Statewide Independent Living Council, and the Association on Higher Education And Disability.
Through the generosity of our sponsors admission to the conference will be free
For more information or to request accommodations contact:
Sol Bermann, J.D.
Associate Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies
Moritz College of Law - The Ohio State University
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http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/cilps/index.html
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Disability, Narrative and the Law
February 16-17, 2005
Schedule
Thursday Evening Dinner: Disability Narrative and Creative Nonfiction - Readings
Convenor: Steve Kuusisto
Chloë G. K. Atkins, Assistant Professor of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary
Steven Kuusisto, Assistant Professor of English, The Ohio State University
Ruth O'Brien, Professor of Government, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Achim Nowak, author of Power Speaking: The Art of the Exceptional Public Speaker
Friday
9-10:15 Session 1: The Legal Practice of Narrative
Convenors: Ruth O'Brien and Ruth Colker
Robert D. Dinerstein, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
Paul Steven Miller, Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law
10:30-Noon Session 2: How Law Mediates Between Personal and Cultural Narratives
Convenors: Amy Shuman and Brenda Brueggemann
Mark Willis, Public Relations and Medical Research, Wright State University; author of memoir and essays related to medical ethics, disability, etc.)
* G. Thomas Couser, Hofstra University (autobiography scholar, author of 2 books and many articles about disability autobiography and ethics)
12-1:30 Lunch with keynote speaker
Convenor: Peter Shane
Hon. Tony Coelho, Chairman of the Board, The Epilepsy Foundation, and former Member, U.S. House of Representatives
1:45 - 3:15 Session 3: Narrative and Argument
Convenors: Jim Phelan and David Herman
Ellen Barton, Professor of English, Wayne State University
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Women's Studies, Emory
Liz Emmens, Assistant Professor of Law, Columbia University School of Law
3:30-5 Session 4: Disability as a Human Phenomenon and as a Legal Category
Convenor: Peter Shane
Frank Munger, Professor of Law, New York Law School
David M. Engel, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Buffalo Law School
Martha A. Fineman, Robert Woodruff Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law
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