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Panels, Papers, and Events of Interest to Disability Historians at the AHA 2008
Compiled by Penny Richards
I. PANELS
[10] THE BODY AT THE CROSSROADS OF MEDICINE AND HISTORY: Disease, Disability, and the Law in Medieval Europe
Thursday, January 3, 3:00–5:00 P.M.
Marriott, Washington Room 1
Chair: Shona Kelly Wray (U Missouri-Kansas City)
Florence Eliza Glaze (Coastal Carolina U): “Pozzuoli and Salerno: The Heated Contest between Therapeutic Traditions and Learned Textual Scholarship in Medieval Italy”
Walton O. Schalick III (UW-Madison): “Mephibosheth in the Middle Ages: Disabilities, Children, and the Most Vulnerable of the Vulnerable in Medieval Europe”
Daniel Lord Smail (Harvard) and Monica H. Green (Arizona State): “CSI Marseille: Medicine, Law, and Crossing (Sub)Disciplinary Divides”
[21] CITIZENSHIP, RACE, and MENTAL ILLNESS in the TWENTIETH-CENTURY UNITED STATES
Thursday, January 3, 3:00–5:00 P.M.
Omni, Hampton Ballroom
Chair: Nancy J. Tomes (SUNY-Stony Brook)
Kerry Wynn (Bloomsburg U of PA): “Institutionalizing Race: Segregation, Citizenship, and Asylum Care in the Transition to Oklahoma Statehood”
Matthew Gambino (UIUC): “’Wards of the Nation’: Race, Citizenship, and Mental Illness in Washington DC, 1900-40”
Ellen Dwyer (Indiana U.): “Troubled Black Soldiers and Notions of Citizenship during World War II”
Comment: Kirby Randolph (U of Kansas Medical Center)
[49] RECONSTRUCTING THE BODY: Gender, Medicine, and the Challenges of Race in the Age of Emancipation
Friday, January 4, 9:30–11:30 A.M.
Marriott, Delaware Suite B
Chair: Heather Cox Richardson (U Mass Amherst)
Melissa N. Stein (Rutgers): “Measuring Manhood in the Civil War and Reconstruction”
James T. Downs (Connecticut College): "Body Counts: A Medical Accounting of Emancipation"
Diana I. Williams (Harvard Law): “’Captered by a army of Octoroons’: The Louisiana Interracial Family in War and Reconstruction”
Comment: Martha Hodes (NYU)
[51] MANAGING EVERYDAY RISKS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: Pedestrians, the Automobile, and the Enclosure Movement
Friday, January 4, 9:30–11:30 A.M.
Hilton, Monroe East
Chair: David Blanke (Texas A&M)
J. C. Burnham (Ohio State): “Twentieth-Century States in Classifying People who have Accidents”
Amy Beth Gangloff (Mississippi State): "Medicalizing the Automobile: Hugh De Haven, Public Health, and the Traffic Safety Act of 1966”
Christian Warren (NY Academy of Medicine): “Power Windows, Power Locks: Americans in their Cars and the Transformation of Risk”
Comment: Joel A. Tarr
[54] TOWARD A TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY OF DISABILITY
Friday, January 4, 9:30–11:30 A.M.
Marriott, Virginia State A
Chair: David H. Serlin (UC-San Diego)
Panel: Kinda Al-Fityani (UC-San Diego); Laura Briggs (U of Arizona); Brian Goldfarb (UC-San Diego); David Mitchell (UIC); Sharon L. Snyder (UIC)
[83] THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF MODERN RETIREMENT: Britain, France, and the United States in Comparative Perspective
Friday, January 4, 2:30–4:30 P.M.
Hilton, Georgetown West
Chair: Kimberly Jo Morgan (GWU)
David G. Troyansky (Brooklyn College CUNY): “Nineteenth-Century Pensions and the Shaping of Old Age in Modern France”
Pat Thane (University of London): “’The 'Scandal’ of Women's Pensions UK: How Did it Come About?”
Sonya Alice Michel (U Maryland-College Park): “The Wobbly Three-Legged Stool: Explaining Inequalities in American Old-Age Support Since World War II”
[143] SEX, SURGERY, and HISTORY: Perspectives on Intersex from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century
Saturday, January 5, 11:30 A.M.–1:30 P.M.
Hilton, Georgetown West
Chair: Leah DeVun (Texas A&M)
Irina Metzler (University of Bristol): “Medieval Hermaphrodites: Intersex in Medical, Legal, and Philosophical Discourse of the European Middle Ages”
Kathleen Long (Cornell U.): “Intersexuality and 'Corrective' Surgery in the Early Modern Period”
Alice D. Dreger (Northwestern U): “History for the Future: A Personal Account of Using History to Change the Medical Treatment of Intersex”
Comment: Anne Enke (U. Wisconsin-Madison)
[164] THE HAVES AND THE HAVE NOTS: A Historical Overview of Disability in the Middle East
Saturday, January 5, 2:30–4:30 P.M.
Hilton, Monroe East
Chair: Catherine J. Kudlick (UC-Davis)
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet (U. of Pennsylvania): “’The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly’: A Historical Perspective on Disability in Iran”
Hila Rimon-Greenspan: “Past and Present in Disability Politics: The Rise of the Israeli Disability Rights Movement”
Liat Ben Moshe (Syracuse U.): “Disability, War, and Resistance in Israel: Is History Worth Repeating?”
Comment: Robert Vitalis (U. of Pennsylvania)
[AMERICAN SOCIETY of CHURCH HISTORY SESSION 25] UNREASON IN THE
CHRISTIAN TRADITION
Saturday, January 5, 2:30–4:30 P.M.
Hilton, Grant Room
Chair: Pamela Klassen (U. of Toronto)
Michael Ostling (U. of Toronto): “‘Deluded Old Women’: On the History and Historiography of the Melancholy Witch”
Jodie Boyer Hatlem (U. of Toronto): “Murder, Madness, and the Mind: Reason and Will in Oneida County”
David Perley (U. of Toronto): “Spiritual Reading as Nondenominational Trigger for Religious Experience in the Liberal Protestant Context”
Comment: Leigh Eric Schmidt (Princeton)
II. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS [Session number is in brackets]
Lauren Minsky (NCState): “’Making Eyes’: Seeing the Significance of Healing Specialization in Nineteenth-Century Punjab” [7]
Keely Stauter-Halsted (Michigan State): “Combating Prostitution in the Polish Lands: The Rise of the Medical, Ethical, and Eugenics Response” [66]
Howard Hsueh-Hao Chiang, (Princeton University): “From Sick Desire to Normal Behavior: The Kinsey Reports, the Mental Health Profession, and the Contested Psychopathological Status of Homosexuality in Mid-Twentieth-Century America” [137]
Alyosha Goldstein (U. New Mexico): “The Moral Sentiments of Devolution: Neoliberalism, Social Order, and Deinstitutionalization in the 1970s” [172]
Deborah Dinner (Yale): “Managing the Costs of Life: Feminism, Biopower, and the Debate over Pregnancy Disability, 1974-78” [Committee on Lesbian and Gay History Session 6]
III. POSTER
Saturday, January 5, 2:30–4:30 P.M.
Omni, Regency Ballroom
John Edward P. Williams-Searle (College of Saint Rose): “Building a Better Worker: Prosthetics and Working-Class Disability” [177-27]
IV. FORUM
OPEN FORUM ON DISABILITY
Friday, January 4, 4:45–6:00 P.M.
Marriott, McKinley
Chair: Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
Comment: Catherine J. Kudlick (UC-Davis)
Members of the AHA's Professional Division will host this open forum on professional issues relating to disability.
V. Disability History Association Party
Friday, January 4, 6:30-8:00 PM in room tba