"Disability is not a brave struggle or 'courage in the face of adversity.' Disability is an art. An ingenuous way to live". - Neil Marcus
Thursday, March 14
4:00 | Welcoming Remarks
Paul Saint-Amour, Associate Professor of English |University of Pennsylvania
4:15 | Opening Roundtable
Moderator: Heather Love, Associate Professor of English |University of Pennsylvania
5:45 | Dinner Break
Friday, March 15
9:00 | Coffee & Continental Breakfast
9:15 | “Seeing Touching Feeling: The Haptic Art of Judith Scott”
Rachel Adams, Professor of English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Respondent: Clare Mullaney, Ph.D. student, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
10:30 | Coffee Break
10:45 | “Booker T. Washington Does the World’s Work: Racial Uplift and Disability”
Todd Carmody, ACLS/Mellon New Faculty Fellow & Visiting Assistant Professor of English, UC Berkeley
Respondent: Philip Tsang, Ph.D. candidate, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
12:00p | Lunch, FBH Faculty Lounge, FBH
1:00p |
“Capacious Physiology, Modernist Disability”
Janet Lyon, Associate Professor of English, Penn State University
Respondent: Kalyan Nadiminti, Ph.D. student, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
“Modernism, Conrad, and Cognitive Disability”
Joseph Valente, Professor of English, State University of New York, Buffalo
Respondent: Beth Blum, Ph.D. candidate, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
3:15 | Coffee Break
3:30 | “Modernist Eugenics and Postmodern Poetics”
Susan Schweik, Professor of English & Associate Dean of Arts & Humanities, UC Berkeley
Respondent: Vaclav Paris, Ph.D. candidate, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
4:45 | Closing Discussion, Faculty Lounge, FBH
Moderator: Jed Esty, Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
5:30 | Drinks reception, Faculty Lounge, FBH
