2009 Summer Seminar in Literary and Cultural Studies
http://english.wvu.edu/about_the_department/summer_seminar
The Department of English, the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, and West Virginia University present the 2009 Summer Seminar:
“Global Bodies: Representing Disability and Gender”
Seminar Leader: Robert McRuer, George Washington University
Dates: May 21-24, 2009
READINGS:
May 22
Session 1: Disability/Representation 101
10am to Noon Lincoln Hall Theater, First Floor
Lennard J. Davis, Constructing Normalcy
Susan Wendell, Who is Disabled? Defining Disability
Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Extraordinary Bodies Chapter 1, Conclusion
Tobin Siebers, Disability and the Future of Identity Politics
Session 2: Crip Theory, Crip Culture, Crip Representation
2 to 4pm Lincoln Hall Theater, First Floor
Robert McRuer, Crip Theory, Chapter 5
Carrie Sandahl, Queering the Crip or Cripping the Queer?
Michael Davidson, Hearing Things
Session 3: AIDS Cultural Theory
10am to Noon Lincoln Hall Theater, First Floor
Cohen, The Boundaries of Black Politics
Munoz, Pedro Zamora's Real World of Counterpublicity
McRuer, Noncompliance
Session 4: Transnational Studies
2 to 4pm Lincoln Hall Theater, First Floor
Parekh, Gender, Disability, and the Postcolonial Nexus
Puar, Homonationalism and Biopolitics
Livingston, Public Health and Developing Persons
Livingston, Maintaining Local Dependencies
Quayson, Wole Soyinka: Disability, Maimed Rights and the Systematic Uncanny
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