The Society for Disability Studies
2003
Theme: Disability
and Dissent: Public Culture, Public Spaces
Hyatt Regency
,
Program
Directors: Sharon Snyder and Sumi Colligan
Disability
and Dissent: Public Cultures, Public Spaces addresses themes concerning the status of disabled people at the
beginning of the twenty-first century.
Presentations are invited on a wide range of issues, particularly those
that address the relationship between disability and the navigation of public spaces -- architectural, attitudinal,
representational, and empirical. At this
stage in the development of disability studies, we encourage scholarship that
addresses the changing nature of disability in the wake of globalization,
heightened militarism, and the increasing politicization of local
communities. How do we assess the role
of disability and dissent in creating the emergence of new public cultures and
spaces?
WEDNESDAY
Meet with ongoing SDS Board Members: Sumi Colligan,
Anne Finger, Ann Fox, Simi Linton, Carrie Sandahl, Judith Sandys, Sharon
Snyder, and Carol Gill (Executive Officer); the introduction of 4 newly elected
board members; and thank you to outgoing board members: Barbara Altman, Phil
Ferguson, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Devva Kasnitz
In Whose Interest? The World Bank and
Disabled Persons
Chair:
1.
Judith Heumann, The World Bank
2.
Robert McRuer,
3.
THURSDAY
Plenary:
Select Previews from the SDS Meeting Program for 2003
Chair, Anne Finger, President of the Society for
Disability Studies
1. Disability as Dissent: Sharon Snyder, Program Chair,
SDS 2003
2. Security for Whom? Establishing
Flexible Bodies and National Borders: Sumi Colligan, Program Chair, SDS 2003
3. Hierarchies and Communicative Power: Devva Kasnitz
4. Racism and Ableism: Carlos Drazen
5. Am I My Sister's Keeper? Feminism and the Caring
Conundrum: Laura Hershey
6.
Designing Deaf Babies and the Question of Disability: Dirksen Bauman
7. Disability and Genocide: Art Blaser
8. The Design of Disabling Bureaucracy: Bill Roth
9. The SDS
Dance: Simi Linton
1.
Globalization and its Discontents
Chair:
1. Globalization and Disability Politics for the 21st
Century
Susan Peters, Eastern
2.
Maria T. Stalnaker,
3. The Globalization of Disability Rights Law
Arlene S. Kanter,
4.
A comparative analysis of The Constitutional basis of the philosophy of Social
justice under the constitution of India and USA and the definition of
disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Persons With
Disabilities (1995) Act of India
Jagdish Chander,
2.
Popularizing Disability, Populating Media Culture
Chair: Ann Fox,
1. Nano-politics, Geopolitics, the African Diaspora,
Raciology, and Hegemony: Paul Gilroy’s
Theoretical Application to Black Magazines
Heather Stone,
2. In Groups: Depictions of People with Disabilities in
Japanese Comics
Patrick Drazen, Chicago
3. Negative Images of Disability in Political Cartoons
Arthur Shapiro,
Howard Margolis,
4. Media and Policy Development for Children with
Disabilities During the Welfare Reform Era
Hugh
Berry and Thomas Kelley, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative
Services
3. Technology and Embodiment
Chair: Devva Kasnitz, World Institute on Disability
1. Virtual disability support groups: cultural and
national boundaries in cyber-space
Gerry Gold,
2. Is Anyone Responsible for Being d/Deaf?
Lisa Cassidy,
3. Radical Technology: Changing who we are and the way
we do things
Amy
4. Assistive Technology, Universal Design, and Notions
of Disability
Jim Tobias, Inclusive Technologies
1. Developing
Accessible Cultures and Spaces: Inclusive Arts and Inclusive Play: Shifting the
landscapes of public culture and public spaces through disability research
Chair: Michele Moore,
1. Kids Active Playwork Inclusion Project
Michele Moore,
Karen Dunn,
2. Utilising Social Model Principles in Negotiating
Improved Countryside Access for Disabled People
Claire Tregaskis,
3. Hello! Are
You Listening? Disabled Teenagers’ Experience of Access to Inclusive Leisure
Pippa Murray, Parents with Attitude; Inclusion,
Childhood & Education Ltd.
4. Disability Arts Against Exclusion: People with
Learning Difficulties and Their Performing Arts
Dan Goodley,
2. Disability
Sexuality: Rethinking Economies of Pleasure, Power, and Body Differences
Chair: Robert McRuer,
1. Human Sexuality Studies
Raymond J. Aguilera,
2. Disabled Sex and the Disruption of Hetero-Normativity:
Theoretical Perspectives and Practical Implications in the Revision of Sexual
Education Programming
Sharon P. Smith,
3. Sex Surrogates, Disability History, and
Rehabilitation Professionals in the non-Western World
Eunjung Kim,
4. Masculinity and Sexuality of selected Filipino males
with physical disabilities
Jerome Busi Zayas, Friendly Care Foundation, Queznos,
Philipinos
3. Disability
and Community: Concepts and Perceptions of Social Space
Chair: Ruth Brannon, NIDRR,
1. Segregated Spaces: The Rise of Specialized Dementia
Care Units
Jennifer Sanders and Nirmala Erevelles,
2. Perceptions about the Use of Assistive Technology in
the Community
Carol Cohen, NIDRR,
3. Disability, Technology and
Michael Blatchford,
4. Community-based
Intervention and Peer Support for African Americans
Presenters from the Anacostia
Project
5. Violently Acquired Spinal
Cord Injury
Fabricio Balcazar, The
1.
Challenging Representations: African American Women's Writing and Disability
Chair: Carlos Clarke Drazen,
1. Rewriting the Script: Hurston’s Challenge to the
Eugenic Legacy in Seraph on the Suwanee
Michelle Jarman,
2. Physical Disability as Metaphor: The Limits of
Morrison's Novels
Dominika Bednarska,
3. "I am incomplete": Injury and the Black
Male Body in Gwendolyn Brooks' War
Literature
Jennifer James,
4. Enabling the Postcolonial Subject: Labor, Desire,
and Disability in Gayl Jones' Corregidora
Robert M. Young, The
Nirmala Erevelles, The
5. Putting Both
Faces Forward: Embracing a Multi-Minority Identity
Kapria Daniels,
2. Access to Health
Care for Persons with Disabilities: A
Lifespan Perspective
Chairs: Marty Wyngaarden Krauss,
Stephen Gulley,
1. Stopping the Gaps: Secondary Health Coverage Among
Children with Disabilities
Valerie Leiter and Marty Wyngaarden Krauss,
2. Secondary Health Coverage for Working-Age Adults
with Disabilities: Closing the Gaps
Gwyn C. Jones,
3. Health Promotion Intervention for Adults with Down
Syndrome: Outcomes of an Exercise and Health Behavior Education Program
Tamar Heller, Beth A. Marks, Kelly Hsieh, & James
Rimmer, University of Illinois at Chicago
4. Preventing HIV Among Homeless Mentally Ill African
American Men
J.
3. From Media
Research to Advocacy: Effective News Coverage of Disability Issues
Chair: Beth Haller,
1. Rallying rhetoric: How one family put inclusive
education on the media map
Bruce Dorries,
2. Disability sports: Why they can’t get media play
Marie Hardin,
3. Ongoing coverage of ADA Implementation: The St.
Louis Post Dispatch as case study
Jennifer LaFleur, Reporters’ Committee for Freedom of
the Press
4. Getting disability sources into the news: How we do
it
William Stothers, Center for an Accessible Society
RECEPTION:
Reflections on Irving Zola: Remembrances, Continuities, and New Directions
Announcing the re-launch of the Irving K. Zola award
for emerging scholars in disability studies
Chair:
Honored Guests: Judy Norsigian and Kyra Zola Norsigian
A video with Irv reading one of his short stories.
Memories of Irv:
Carol Gill,
Katherine Seelman,
Devva Kasnitz,
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson,
David Pfeiffer,
EVENING
SESSIONS
1. Attitudes
Towards Disability in History
Chair: Doug Baynton,
1. No Right to be Idle:
Reformers, Industrial Accidents, and the Idea of Disability, 1908-1918
Sarah Rose, Department of History,
2. Disability Oppression and Empowerment: The
Construction of Disabled Identity in Chinese Society
Hsiao-yu Sun,
3. Consuming Cripples: Early American Realist Drama and
Disability
Ann Fox, Assistant Professor of English and Theater,
4. Conceptions of "Idiocy" in Colonial
Parnel Wickham,
2. Violently-Acquired Spinal Cord Injury: Issues and
Intervention
Chair: Fabricio Balcazar,
1. VASCI: Using Peer-mentoring as a Catalyst Toward
Independent Living
Fabricio Balcazar, Erin Hayes,
Mark Engstrom, Judy Holst, Christopher Keys,
2. Shannon O’Neil, Marcus
Holmes, & Steve Ferguson,
3. Perceptions of Medical Staff on the
Rehabilitation of Violently Disabled Individuals
Patrick Devlieger,
3.
Experiential Divides: Relating to Non-Disabled Persons
Chair: Mark Sherry, Ed Roberts Post-Doctoral Fellow,
1. Understanding the Experience of Japanese with
Disabilities
Chikako Kimura, Research Institute,
Akira Terashima, Research Institute,
Yamazaki Yoshihiko, Department of Health Sociology,
2. The Life Perspective of Disabled Women Living Among
Non-Disabled Individuals (vcr)
Marlene Belew Huff, LCSW, Eastern
Charles Lowe, MSW, Northern
3. The Politics of Presentation: Disability, Personal
Assistance, and Voice
Martina Robinson and Annie Tummino,
4. The Victimology of Being
John B. Kelly,
FRIDAY
1.
Communicative Power: Disability, Participation, and Speech in the 21st
Century
Chair: Jim Ferris,
1. The Experience of Communicative Power
Russell Shuttleworth,
2. Research on Disability and Communicative Power
Phillip M. Prinz,
3. A Model of Communication Image, Communicative Power
Devva Kasnitz,
4. Applying Research to Create Communicative Power
Marcie Goldstein, New Focus Partnerships,
Brandon Arthur, Visual Language Interpreting,
2.
Mis-Educating the Margins
Chair: Phil Ferguson,
1. Racism Meets Ableism in the
Carlos Clarke Drazen,
2. Off the Record: Youth Perspectives on Disability and
Schooling
Linda Ware, NEH Summer Institute for Teachers in
Disability Studies
3. School to Where? A Literature Review on Economic
Outcomes of Youth with Disabilities
David Wittenburg and Elaine Maag, The Urban Institute
Claiming Identity
4. Visions for the Future by high-school aged students
with cognitive disabilities
Hilary R. Altman,
3. Conceptual
Models and Their Implications
Chair: Judith Sandys,
1. Disabled, Relatively Speaking
Sophie Mitra,
2. Delicate Balance: A Pragmatist Approach to the
Ontology of Disability
Elizabeth J. Grace,
George H.S. Singer,
3. Citizenship and Disability: Conceptualizing the
Dimensions of Access to and Exclusion from Rights
Allison Carey and Carol Marfisi,
4. The Disability Discrimination Model in Social Work
Policy Practice: the count Us IN Project
Gary E. May,
1. Academic
Researchers and Disability Activists: An Evaluation of Partnership
Chair: John B. Kelly,
1. Kathryn Moss,
2. Cyndi Jones, former editor, Mainstream
3. Tia Nelis,
4. Joy Weeber,
2.
Foundations of Able-ism and Racism
Chair: Anne
Finger, President of the Society for Disability Studies
1. The Eugenic Atlantic: Racism, Able-ism, and the
Influence of an International Disability Science, 1800 to 1945
David Mitchell,
2. Race, hybridity and the (able) body: exploring the
possibilities for an anti-ableist critical race theory
Philip Kretsedemas,
3. Found Insane in the
Sean Harris,
4. "The Decimation of the Race ('Die Dezimierung
des Geschlechts'): Degeneration Theory and the Disabled Body in
Sara Vogt,
3. You Better
Work: Disability and Employment
Chair: Judith
Sandys,
1. Employment, Citizenship, and Disability
Anita Ho, The
2. The role of disabled people in existing
not-for-profit organizations
Russell Vickery, Aukland
3. Working at the margins? Disabled people's employment
experiences in
Robert Wilton,
4. Social Networks, Communication Disability, and
Employment
Blyden B. Potts, Allison C. Carey, Diane Nelson Bryen,
and Kevin Cohen,
1. National
Data Sets Available for Enhanced Disability Research, Program Evaluation, and
Policy Efforts
Chair: Corinne Kirchner, American Foundation for the
Blind
1. Use of National Survey Data to Expand Transportation
Options for Persons with Disabilities
Sharon L Durant, US Department of Transportation,
2. Surveys with Information on Disability and
Employment
Andrew J. Houtenville,
3. Longitudinal Study of Vocational Rehabilitation
Services Program
William E. Erickson, Program on Employment and
Disability
4. Employer Disability Nondiscrimination Policy and
Practices Survey Data
Susanne M. Bruyere,
5. Response: Thomas Seekins,
2. Mapping
the Field: Intersections and Disjunctions
Chair: Sharon Snyder,
1. Drifting Down the
Helen Meekosha,
2. All Research is a Story: On Method, Methodology, and
Disability Inquiry
Deborah Gallagher,
3. The Problem Body: Intersectionality and Disability
Studies
Sally Chivers, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow
Nicole Markotic,
4. Finding Disability Identity in Diaspora and Cyborg
Myth
Terri Thrower,
3. Expendable Populations
Chair: David Mitchell,
1. Charles Darwin's (Mis)Use of Intellectual
Disabilities in The Descent of Man
Steven A. Gelb,
2. People with Disabilities in Kosovo: Genocide, Civil
War, and Global Response
Art Blaser,
3. Moral Utilitarianism in Singer's Animal Liberation:
A Disability Critique
Judy Holst,
4. Filicide, Neonaticide, and Infanticide: Current
Attitudes and Disability Studies
Timothy Lillie, The
1.
Formulating Disability Identities
Chair: Harilyn
Rousso
1. Developing a Typology and Scale to Describe and
Measure Orientations Toward Disability
Rosalyn Benjamin Darling,
2. Redefining Wholeness: Formulating a Minority Group
Model of Disability Identity Development
Carol J. Gill and Larry A. Voss,
3. Using
the stories ‘we get’: Exploring narrative methods with youth with intellectual
disabilities.
Esther
Ignagni, Social Science and Health Program, Department of Public Health
Sciences
4. The Empirical Construction of a Political Disability
Identity Measure: What are the Components?
Michelle Putnam,
2.
Constructing Disability, Contesting Policy
Chair: David
Pfeiffer,
1. Diagnostic
constructions of Tourette Syndrome, and their implications
Owen Hughes, Office
of Disability, Ministry of Social Development,
2. How the devalued categories of chronic pain become
reified through the construction of the
hierarchy of rehabilitation professionals
James R. Brennan,
3. Representation of People with Disabilities in Local
Democracy: The Case of 33 Swedish Municipal Communities
Oskar Krantz and Stig Larsson,
4. Legislative Advocacy: Getting Our Message Out
Peggy Quinn,
3. Mediating
Disability: Film and Television
Chair: Abby
Wilkerson,
1. Fat Wives and Amputee Caregivers: Disability and
Difference on The Sopranos
Kathleen LeBesco,
2. Disabling the Asian American Male in
Nolana Yip,
3. Representations of Disability in Popular American
Youth Films
Julia White and Katrina Arndt,
4. My Brother as Other: The Construct of Identity in Rain Man, The Other Sister, and What's
Eating Gilbert Grape
Merope Pavlides,
Location:
Multi-Media Room
Chair:
1. Bearing the Body
of Bourne
Carrie Sandahl,
2. Entering the Theatre
3. A Discourse of Discontent
Chris Strickling,
4. Reclaiming “Jerry’s
Orphans:” Theatricality as Resistance, Jerry Lewis and the MDA Telethon
Sheila Moeschen, Northwestern University
5. Receiving Shadows: The Embodiment of Physical
Difference
Meghan S. Humlie,
2. At Home
with Disability: Designing Livable Spaces
Chair: Michael Dorn,
1. Inclusive Home Design
Doris Zames Fleischer, and Frieda Zames, New Jersey
Institute of Technology
2. What Constitutes Livable Communities for People Who
Are Blind Or Visually Impaired?
Elaine Gerber and Corinne Kirchener, American
Foundation for the Blind
3. Disability, Participation, and Life Satisfaction:
New Data from the National Health Interview Survey
Gerry E. Hendershot, Consultants on Disability and
Health Statistics
4. Urban Planning: Planning, Zoning and Building for
Every Body
Susan Stoddard,
5. Disabled Populations in
Nittala N. Murthy, University
of the
3. Disability
and Violence
Chair: Steven
Gelb,
1. Hate Crimes and Disability
Mark Sherry, Ed Roberts Post-Doctoral Fellow,
2. Disability Harassment
Jerome J. Holzbauer,
3. Violence Against Disabled Children: An Analytical
Study
Koustuv Dalal,
4. Deaf Prison Inmates: Characteristics and Conditions
Margaret Weigers Vitullo,
4. The
Americans with Disabilities Act: The
Implications of Past and Pending Supreme Court Decisions
Chairs: Nancy Mudrick,
1. Andrew Imparato, President and CEO
American Association of Persons with Disabilities
2. Jeffrey T. Rosen, General Counsel and Director of
Policy
National Council on Disability
3. Christine Griffin, Executive Director
Songs of Commitment: Disability, Psychiatry, and Music
Daniel Kasnitz, Muse Technology,
1. Simi Linton, Disability Arts, NY
2.
Adventures in Blind Boot Camp: 'What May End Up as a Freemasonry May Begin with
a Shudder'
Catherine J. Kudlick,
3. Anne Finger, President, Society for Disability Studies,
and Contributing Editor for The Ragged Edge
Chair: Brenda Brueggemann,
Douglas
Baynton,
2.
Designing Deaf Babies and the Question of Disability
Dirksen
L. Bauman,
3.
ASL and Braille – Icons of
Brian
Miller, Department of History,
4. A literary history of deaf and ASL art and
literature since 1960
2. Disability
Experience Bounded by Medical Authority
Chair:
1. The Care Conundrum: A Disability-Rights Response to
Feminist Views of Care-giving
Laura Hershey, Crip Commentary,
2. Sex/Disability Borders and Boundaries: Activism and
the Medicalization of Intersexuality
Abby Wilkerson, Department of English,
3. Hysterical Projections: Treatments of "Hysteria" in
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Anna Mollow,
4. Law and the Pharmaceutical Technologies of the Self
5. Psychiatric Consumer/Survivor Movement as a
Disability Culture
Bradley Lewis,
Chair: Paul Miller, EEOC
1. Accessing the Public: Public Accommodation and the
Americans with Disabilities Act
Jim Cherney,
2. Unnatural Bodies, Natural Spaces, and Common Sense:
Disability, Environmentalism, and Access to
Alison Kafer,
3. In Case of Fire, Use Stairs: Legal Negligence and
Emergency Evacuation Procedures for People with Disabilities
Jessica L. Roberts, Feminist Majority Foundation
Matthew A. Thomas,
4. The ODA—Promises Yet to be Fulfilled
Judith Sandys,
BREAK
Assistive
Technology, Independent Living and Community Integration of Persons with
Disabilities in the
Chair: Steven James Tingus, Director, NIDRR,
1. Barriers to Assistive Technology and Information
Betty Jo Berland and Dawn Carlson, NIDRR
2. Assistive Technology in the Community
David Gray, University of
3. Technology for
4. Assistive Technology, Information Technology and
Personal Assistance Use and Need by Persons with Disabilities in the
Dawn Carlson, NIDRR, and Nat Ehrlich, The
2.
Hierarchies and Cultural Belonging
Chair: Alex Lubet,
1. Why Don't People with Mental Illnesses Embrace
Disability Identity?
Christian Perring,
2. Disability Hierarchies and the Direction of the
Disability Movement
Meenu Bhambhani,
3. Visual Images of Disability in Nazi
Carol Poore,
4. Line Up By Rank, Cripples:
Performance of/and Hierarchies of Disability
Jim Ferris,
3. Women and
Deafness: Skirting the Issues
Chair: Hannah Joyner
1. Susan Burch,
2. Rights of Parents with Disabilities: Lessons from
the
John Christiansen and Irene W. Leigh,
3.
4.
1.
Bureaucracy, Discrimination, and Resistance
Chair: Amy Paul-Ward,
1. The Design of Disabling Bureaucracy
Bill Roth,
2. "Because they have all the power and I have
none": Examining How Recent Restructuring of the Ontarians with
Disabilities Support Program has Impacted Income Support Recipients
Valorie A. Crooks, School of Geography and Geology,
Vera Chouinard, Women's Studies Programme,
3. Access to the Skies: Airline Seats as Contested
Spaces
Joyce L. Huff, The
4. Video Action Research: Using multimedia to make
public otherwise hidden stories of home support service cuts
Kari Krogh,
2. Exploring
the Intersects of Aging and Disability: The Personal, the Political & the
Sociocultural
Chair: Joy Hammel,
1. Roles of Resistance: Constructing Identity &
Power in Response to Oppression
Joy Hammel, Carol Gill, Susan Magasi, Larry Voss, &
Deborah Walens, University of Illinois, Chicago
2. Staking a claim to disability: A rallying point for
choice and control in old age
Susan Magasi and Joy Hammel,
3. Perspectives of developmentally disabled women on
health, growing, and growing older
Allison A. Brown & Carol J. Gill,
4. Perspectives on Aging with Multiple Sclerosis
Marcia Finlayson,
3. Accessing
Higher Education
Chair: Tangka Eric Dindze,
1. Disability Policy by Default: The Material
Discursive Conflation of Education
Amy Vidali,
2. Constructions of dis/ability and the im/possibility
of educational media
Alan R. Foley,
3. The Experience of College Students with Learning
Disabilities
Judith A. Rosenberg,
4. Association of Disabled Students in
Vladimir Cuk, South East European Youth and Students
with Disabilities Network
1. Spectacle,
Surveillance, Speculation: The Politics of Visible/Invisible Disability
Location: Multi
Media Room
Co-chairs: Kristin Lindgren,
1. Gretchen Case,
2. Kristin Lindgren,
3. Ellen Samuels,
4. Susan Schweik,
2. SDS: The
Origin and Intellectual Evolution with Prescience of the Future
Chair: Anne Finger, SDS President,
1. The Moveable Feast and Other Memories of Early SDS
History
Barbara M. Altman,
2. Tracing the History and Development of Disability
Studies Quarterly
David Pfeiffer,
3. Disentangling the
Intellectual Threads of the SDS Tapestry
Corinne Kirchener, American
Foundation for the Blind
4. Leadership Roles and the
Role of Leader in SDS
Phil Ferguson,
5. Predictions for the Future
Anne
Finger, President, The Society for Disability Studies
3. Disability Studies: Curricular
Challenges and Implementation
Chair:
1. Disability Studies Along
the Continuum: Meeting Diverse Learning
Needs
Robin Levine, Rosangela Boyd,
and Mike Dorn, Institute on Disabilities,
2. Incorporating Disability
Content into the
Linda Long, Paula Minihan, Wayne Altman, Libby
Bradshaw,
3.
Framing Disability and Disability Studies: Examining Student Transformations in
a Disability Studies Doctoral Program
Carol J. Gill, and Joy Hammel,
4. The Politicization of Education: Intersections and
Tensions Between Disability Studies and the Bush Agenda
Lynne M. Bejoian, and D. Kim Reid, Teachers College,
4. IT
Applications in Human Resources: Access Considerations for People with
Disabilities
Chair: Susanne M. Bruyère,
1. Survey of SHRM Membership on IT Access in the
Employment Process
Susanne M. Bruyère,
2. A Review of Selected E-Recruiting Websites:
Disability Accessibility Considerations
William A. Erickson,
3. Current Information Needs and Available Resources on
HR and IT Related Issues
Marian Vessels,
4. Discussant: Peggy Mastroianni, Associate Legal
Counsel
Equal Employment
Weights, a
performance by Lynn Manning
RECEPTION (at
the
SUNDAY
1. A Question
of Culture: A Creative
Chair:
1.
Johnson Cheu, The
2. Carolyn Tyjewski, Independent scholar/freelance
writer,
3.
Hannelore
Alex Lubet, and Judith Ing Ber,
2. Seizing the Moment: Wedging Dissent
into the Halls of Academe
Chair: Sue Schweik,
1.
Refusing the Academic Periphery
Melanie
Panitch,
2.
Making a Space for ‘Art that Bites Back’
Catherine
Frazee,
3.
Teaching in the Discomfort Zone
Fraser
Valentine,
4.
Doing Ethical Research Against the Grain
Kathryn Church,
3. The Social
Construction of Psychiatric Disabilities: The Impact of Policy, Disclosure, Stigma,
and Society
Chair: Marcie Goldstein, New Focus Partnerships,
1.
Bonnie
O’Day
2.
Choosing to be Outed: The Perils of Disclosure for Persons with Psychiatric
Disabilities
Susan
Goldberg, CESSI
3. Evidence Based Practices in Mental Health: Who is
making decisions about our lives?
Christine Conway Reese,
4.
The Social Construction of Psychiatric Disability: How Psychiatric Disability
is Created Through Societal Attitudes
Mary
Killeen, CESSI
THE END
The Multi
Media Room
Scheduled for
Exhibition (preliminary)
Circle Stories
Riva Lehrer
Drawing the Unusual Body: Nudity, Disability,
Censorship
Laura Ferguson
'Sleeping Giants'. Mental Health and Community Arts
Work
General
Meeting Scheduling Guideposts:
1. We prefer to have the chairs of sessions differ from
presenters on a panel.
2. Only one presentation per person with some exceptions
for co-authored papers or extenuating access reasons.
3. Sufficient time for breaks and meals.
4. Keep media set-ups to a limited number of rooms.
5. Keep Sunday as a full and exciting half-day.
Book Room: There will be a room that exhibits books and
publications in disability studies and contains table space for further
disability studies materials that presenters may wish to display. Stay tuned
for a book launch reception from Duke University Press.
Contact Corinne Kirchener for further information:
corinne@afb.net.
Multi Media
Room: A multi-media room will screen
disability documentaries for conference attendees. These screenings will also include small
group discussions. Contact Carrie
Sandhal for further information: csandahl@fsu.edu.
Art Exhibit: Simi Linton, Carrie Sandhal, Beth Haller, and Simi
Linton are working on a disability arts exhibit. Please encourage your favorite disability
artists to propose their work for display.
The Multi Media Room and Art Exhibit organizers can be reached at
csandahl@fsu.edu, bhaller@towson.edu, simi4@yahoo.com.
Message
Board: There will be a message board
for conference attendees.
Location: Hyatt Regency www.bethesda.hyatt.com. There is a metro
stop near the hotel (the Bethesda Station) so that participants may readily
access downtown
ACCESS: Full access for all participants is at the core of SDS
meetings where it is understood that one chair and table size does not reflect
human diversity. As such, and in the spirit of universal design, accessibility
should shape presentations and exchanges - as opposed to being considered
supplementary to them. In other words, presenters need to plan for modes of
delivery that seek inclusion for all audience participants.
This entails providing hard copy
and large print hard copies (18 point font or larger); e-texts of papers in
advance of their delivery (for open captioning); audio description of visual
images and charts; offering summaries or hand-outs; and reading at a manageable
speed for sign-language interpreters and others. Adequate lighting provides for
lips and gestures to be perceived; a scent-free environment ensures that
everyone can attend meetings. We plan to provide scent-free products for
purchase at conference registration.
SDS Program Committee:
Sumi
Colligan (co-chair), Sharon Snyder (co-chair), Dominika Bednarska, Ann Fox,
Beth Haller, Robert McRuer, and James Trent
Access and Arrangements:
Marcie
Goldstein: hotel arrangements, receptions, menus, and access
Devva
Kasnitz: financial planning, access, and accommodations
Beth
Haller: hotel arrangements, general coordination
Book Room:
Corinne
Kirchener
Beth
Haller
Audio-visual arrangements
David
Mitchell
Open Captioning
Brandon
Arthur, Visual Language Interpreting
Performance Arrangements with the
Carrie
Sandahl
Accessible transport planning between
Anne
Finger
Simi
Linton
Carrie
Sandahl
Exhibits and the Multi Media Room
Beth
Haller
Simi
Linton
Carrie
Sandahl
SDS Dance
Simi
Linton
Devva
Kasnitz
Irv Zola Reception and Memorial Event