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CONFERENCE VENUE
The conference will be held in Vari Hall. See building #30 on the York map here.
SATURDAY, APRIL 24TH
Registration 8:30 – 9:00 am
Session 1 9:00 – 10:00 am
Panel 1 A Place to Call Home: Intellectual Disabilities and Residential Services in Nova Scotia
The Ashley Smith Tragedy: Reconsidering the Mental Health Needs of Women and Girls in Custody
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Panel 2 As the Shoulder Heals: One Woman’s Experience Surviving Two Car Accidents
A Journey Toward Empowerment: Perspectives of A Disability Rights Activist
Session 2 10:15 – 11:15 am
Panel 1 Two Cultures, One Programme: Deaf Professors as Subaltern?
More than an Accomplishment: Deaf Education in the Maritimes, 1856 – 1892
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Panel 2 (Mis) Perception of Change: Education Opportunities at the Toronto District School Board 40 Years Later
The Ethical Integration of Brain Machine Interfaces: Towards the Cyborganization of Disabled People
Lunch 11:15 – 12:15 pm
Session 3 12:15 – 1:15 pm
Panel 1 Mad People in Academia
How a Counter-discourse to the Psychopathology of ‘Obsessions’ Departs from the Trope of ‘Mad Genius’: An Autoethnographic Study of Relationality from ‘Local to Universal’
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Panel 2 Too Much Has Happened That Will Never be Told: Lesbian Madness Narratives Since the 1970s
Everyday Monsters: Assuming the Threat of the Black Disabled Feminine Subject
Session 4 1:30 – 2:30 pm
Panel 1 Work (in progress)
“If I Had A Normal Job I Couldn’t Do This”: Exploring The Economics of Disability Advocacy Motherhood and Inclusive Education Samantha Walsh & Elisabeth Harrison
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Panel 2 Rendering Bodies: Medical Aesthetics and Contemporary Art
The Power of the Music of the Night: Alterity and Resistance Through Gothic Subversion in the Phantom of the Opera
Art Exhibition and Poster Session 2:30 – 3:00 pm
Keynote Address 3:00 – 4:00 pm
The Campaign for a Barrier-Free Ontario – What Progress? What Prospects?
Roundtable 4:00 – 5:00 pm Disability in Academia: Debating the Merits Presented by Access York, this panel will explore the goals and considerations of studying disability in academia. “Experts” on disability from a wide range of disciplines (e.g. Psychology, Rehabilitation, Education, Science, Critical Disability Studies) will compare and contrast their own views on “studying” disability. Through highlighting an oppressive past in disability research, “experts” will discuss how to proceed in the future. Questions considered include: How does one study disability? Is there a right way to study disability; and if so, who decides what that is? How can seemingly opposing views on studying disability collaborate and benefit from each other? Or is that even possible? What is the merit in having these perceived opposing views? How does this inform future research and study?
Reception 5:00 – 7:00 pm |