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DHA & Upcoming Conferences

Society for Disability Studies, New York City, USA, June 18-21, 2008 (http://www.disstudies.org/conference/2008).

For a list of panels of interest to disability historians, DHA Board Member Penny Richards has provided the following list:

• A Workshop in the Works: "Doing Disability Community History"
  • Susan Burch
  • David Serlin
  • Jean Lindquist Bergey
  • Diane Britton
  • Ray Pence

• Immigrants and Others: Disability and the Nation
  • Sagit Mor, “Neglected Stories: Disability, Immigration, and National Imagination.”
  • Jay Dolmage, “The Golden Door: Eugenics at Ellis Island.”
  • Shaista Patel, “Maddening the Racialized Terror: The Insane Muslim within Canadian Nation-Building.”
  • Douglas Baynton, “Defect, Ethnicity, and Appearance: Disabled Immigrants in the American Imagination.”

• Disability and the War in Iraq: Disabled Veterans, History, and Culture
  • David Serlin, “Performing Disabled Masculinities at Walter Reed from WWII to the Iraq War.”
  • Ellen Samuels, “Narrative Invalidity: From Gulf War Syndrome to the Iraq Vet Borderline Personality Scandal.”
  • Megan V. Davis, “Images of Sovereignty: Disabled American Soldiers and the Excesses of US Global Imperialism.”
  • Respondent: David Gerber

• Individual papers of interest:
  • Andre Cormier, “‘She's Lame! O!’ (U 351) The Female Body, Disability, and Irish Colonial Pathology.”
  • Dominika Bednarska, “Critique Through the City: Examining Ideologies of Gender and Disability in Woolf's Mrs Dalloway.”
  • Melanie Wakefield (Michigan), “Diagnosing Virginia: the Dialectic of Madness in Virginia Woolf.”
  • Sara Scalenge, “Blindness in the Arab-Islamic World: A Historical Perspective.”
  • Kristen Harmon, “‘Something Secret and Superstitious’: Deafness and Gender in Wilkie Collins’s Hide and Seek.”
  • Jennifer Nelson, "Bearing the Word: Linguistic Colonialism in de Musset's Pierre and Camille."
  • Zosha Stuckey, “Lavinia Magri and the Rhetoric of Civic ‘Fitness’ in 19th Century Freak Shows.”
• Posters:
  • Corbett O’Toole, “Why Berkeley? Independent Living Origins”
  • Justin Powell and Liat Ben-Moshe, “Symbolizing Accessibility: Revis(it)ing the International Symbol of Access.”
  • Gail S. Werblood, "Frida Kahlo Visits the Big Apple: Memoirs of Experience in New York City"

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