Please see below the schedule for the Currents in the Mainstream Conference to be held on the 22nd September.
MeCCSA Disability Studies Network
Currents in the Mainstream- Where are we going
Wednesday 22nd September 2010
Queens Building 0.10 De Montfort University Leicester
9.15-9.55 Registration and refreshments
10.00 Welcome and Plenary :
Paul Darke The Same Old Porn: Disability exploitation in the hegemony of normality
Sonali Shah Becoming Disabled: Temporality of Disability
Deborah A Williams Write like a RETARD
11.00 – 12.15 Panel
Niluka Gunawardena Indian Boys with American Dreams
Colin Cameron It’s all about conforming
E.Anna Claydon ‘Cast Offs’;The tensions of disability as entertainment.
12.15-13.15 LUNCH
13.15 – 14. 30 Panel 2
Dolly Sen Reel Madness
Penny Pepper Glass ceilings and forbidden basements: dreams, dilemma and deadends as a writer performer.
Nicola Martin A preliminary study of some broad disability related themes within the Edinburgh Fringe.
14.30-14.40 refreshments
14.40- 16.00 Panel 3 (3x20mins papers/presentations + 15mins discussion)
Bob Williams Findlay The politicisation of disability images
David Howe and Carla F Silva The imagined Paralympian: Supercrip and the impaired sporting body.
Eliza Varney Disability Voices in the Regulatory realm? An Examination of the ICT Sector in Canada.
16.00 Final plenary and network meeting
Further information will be posted here about future events etcetera, following the network meeting on the 22nd.
Best Wishes
Alison Wilde and Margaret Montgomerie
|