EDUCATION

On the Margins of Citizenship: Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in Twentieth Century America
Allison C. Carey, PhD,
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Shippensburg University

Dr. Carey will examine the discourses of rights and citizenship for people with intellectual disabilities as well as the sociopolitical factors that too often diminish the effectiveness of their ability in securing choice and self-determination.

 Dr. Carey's lecture - audio and transcript

The Aesthetics of Human Disqualification
Tobin Siebers, PhD,
V. L. Parrington Collegiate Professor, Professor of English Language and Literature, and Professor of Art and Design, University of Michigan

Dr. Siebers will focus on three case studies from the art world: the "degenerate art" of the Nazi period, the appearance of Marc Quinn's Alison Lapper Pregnant in Trafalgar Square, and the use by Newsweek magazine of medical photographs from the Mütter Museum to illustrate "A Century of Medical Oddities." In his discussion of the aesthetics of human disqualification, Dr. Siebers claims that symbolic processes of representations depend on aesthetic criteria that require further clarification and critique, especially with respect to how individuals are disqualified, that is, how they are found inferior, in need, incapable, diseased, etc.

Krip-Hop Nation: Disability in African American Music
Leroy Franklin Moore, Jr.
Scholar in Residence at POOR Magazine: writer, poet, community activist and feminist, San Francisco

Mr. Moore will present the music, lives, struggles, and achievements of Black Blind Blues and Disabled Hip-Hop artists to highlight the racism, ableism, and economic environment that surround minority disabled artists. With a focus on success stories and hope, the presentation will describe the strategies of racialized artists with disabilities and offer examples on how to include the work of these artists, their books, and CDs in classrooms, in media, and in organizations.