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Just in case you are around Ann Arbor in the next seven days (or like to keep track of what's going in our neck of the DS world), here are two events that might interest you: Thursday, 2/7, 1-4: Dis/color: Race and Disability Institute for the Humanities 202 S. Thayer, room 1022, Ann Arbor Description: Thirty-minute presentations by each speaker (in the order below), followed by Q & A. "Crippin' Jim Crow: Re-Imagining Community in Closed Spaces," Nirmala Erevelles, Social Foundations of Education, University of Alabama "'People of the Apokalis': Spatial Disability and the Bhopal Disaster," Jina Kim, English and Women's Studies, University of Michigan "Toxic Inhumanisms and Questions of Race," Mel Chen, Gender and Women's Studies, U.C. Berkeley About the speakers: Nirmala Erevelles is professor of social and cultural studies in education at the University of Alabama. Her work lies at the intersections of disability studies, transnational feminism, the sociology of education, critical race studies, and multicultural education. Her recent book, Disability and Difference in Global Contexts: Towards a Transformative Body Politic was published by Palgrave in 2011. Jina Kim is a PhD candidate in the departments of English and women's studies at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include contemporary multi-ethnic U.S. literatures and cultures, women of color critique, comparative ethnic studies, theories of disability, and performance. Originally from Atlanta, GA, she received her BA from Agnes Scott College in Studio Art and English. She is the recipient of the 2012 Irving K. Zola Award for Emerging Scholars in Disability Studies. Mel Y. Chen is associate professor of gender & women's studies at U.C. Berkeley and an affiliate of the Center for Race and Gender, the Science and Technology Studies Center, and the Institute for Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences. His research and teaching interests include queer and gender theory, animal studies, critical race theory, disability studies, and critical linguistics. In the Fall of 2009, Mel convened "Species Spectacles", a U.C. Humanities Research Institute Residential Research Group focused on animality, sexuality and race. Mel's short film, Local Grown Corn (2007), explores interweavings of immigration, childhood, illness and friendship; it has played in both Asian and queer film festivals. Mel's book, Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect, was released in July 2012 with Duke University Press in the Perverse Modernities series. This event is part of Integrating Disability: Cross-Sensory Translation, Bodies of Dis/color, and Neurodiversity, a year-long collaboration between the U-M Institute for the Humanities, National Center for Institutional Diversity, and the U-M Initiative on Disability Studies. Monday 2/11, 2.30 - 4, Angell Hall 3222 Native Studies/Disability Studies: Conversations Professor Siobhan Senier (University of New Hampshire): "Traditionally, Disability Was Not Seen as Such”: Writing and Healing in the Work of Mohegan Medicine People Siobhan Senier is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, where her teaching and research interests include Native American Literature, Disability Studies, Sustainability Studies, and Digital Humanities. Her publications include Voices of American Indian Assimilation and Resistance (2001), as well as essays in American Literature, New England Quarterly, American Indian Quarterly, Studies in American Indian Literatures, and Disability Studies Quarterly. Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Writing from Indigenous New England, a collection she authored with a dozen regional Native writers and historians, is forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press. You can visit her blog at indiginewenglandlit.wordpress.com. This talk is part of Native Studies/Disability Studies: Conversations, a speaker series funded by the National Center for Institutional Diversity. The next speaker in the series will be Professor Allison Hedge Coke, on March 18th. Petra Kuppers Professor English, Art and Design, Theatre, Women's Studies Faculty Affiliate with the Center for World Performance Studies and Matthaei Botanical Gardens Co-Chair of the University of Michigan Initiative on Disability Studies University of Michigan Artistic Director of The Olimpias: www.olimpias.org Recent Book: Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape (Palgrave, 2011) 2012 Winner of the Biennial Sally Banes Prize by the American Society for Theatre Research ________________End of message________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about list administration should be sent to [log in to unmask] Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page.