Program - The International Association for Philosophy and Literature

friday afternoon | 4 july 2008
Fiona Jenkins (Philosophy, Australian National University, Canberra, AUSTRALIA)
“Everyone Wants to See Everyone Else - See the New Born, the Death-Spreaders,
and See the Living”
Krystallo Nikolaou (English Studies , University of Cyprus , Nicosia, CYPRUS)
TBA
FR [SP-04] STOREY HALL SEMINAR ROOM 004
THE ART OF DISABILITY
Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Gail Weiss (Philosophy, The George Washington
University, Washington, D.C., USA)
This special panel is a critical examination of how disability has been (mis)
represented in popular culture as well as in the academy and offers new ways of
theorizing disability.
Kim Hall (Philosophy, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA)
The Biological Turn in the Humanities: Disability, Gender, and Evolutionary Narratives
Robert McRuer (English, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.,
USA)
Bad Education: Crip Representation and the Limits of Tolerance
Sharon Snyder (Disability Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA)
Dispossession and Collectivity: Diversity, Disability, and Democracy in Higher
Education
David Mitchell (Disability Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA)
TBA
Jill Ehnenn (English, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA)
Darwin’s (Queer) Body
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16:45-18:45 rmit capitol theatre, 113 swanston street
plenary: rosi braidotti
university of utrecht, the netherlands
AFFIRMATIVE PHILOSOPHY AS RESISTANCE TO THE PRESENT
18:45-20:00
Reception sponsored by La Trobe University
20:00-22:00 rmit capitol theatre, 113 swanston street
film screening: call me mum
Discussion with Writer Kathleen Fallon and Director Margot Nash
Introduced by Felicity Collins (La Trobe University)