7:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration Check-in
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. – Breakfast Buffet (Luskin Center – Centennial Hall C/D)
8:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Breakout Session One
PANEL: Disability and Life Narratives
PANEL: Disability and Temporality
9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Welcome: Victoria Marks, chair of Disability Studies, Convocation Keynote: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University (Centennial Hall C/D)
11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Breakout Session Two
PANEL: Disability Poetics and/as Spectacle I
PANEL: Disability and TV
PANEL: Disability and Urban Space
WORKSHOP: Validation for Black, Disabled Sexuality in Fiction Film
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Buffet Lunch (Centennial Hall C/D)
2:10 p.m. – 3:25 p.m. Breakout Session Three
PANEL: Disability and Theater/Opera
PANEL: Disability Poetics and/as Spectacle II
PANEL: Aesthetics and Bodyminds
PANEL: Beyond Casting and Characterization: New Deployments of Disability in Drama and Performance
3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Breakout Session Four
FILM SCREENING: Basketball, Bodies and Bitches: Making a Spectacle of Disabled Female Wheelchair Basketball Players
PANEL: ʺIt’s Called Actingʺ and Other Weak Arguments Against Self-Representation
PANEL: The Spectacle of Accessibility
PANEL: Disability and Enfreakment
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Disability Studies 10th Anniversary Reception (Schoenberg Hall Courtyard)
8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Keynote Address: DJ Kurs, Deaf West Theatre (Schoenberg Hall 1100) *This event will be open to the campus community.
**NOTES FOR THURSDAY:
- Sessions are subject to change due to cancellation.
- Each breakout session (1-8) will have 3-4 presentations/performances/workshops. The sessions will be held in the following Luskin Center Meeting Rooms: Centennial Hall C/D, Innovation, Pinnacle, and Odyssey.
You can download the Schedule at a Glance here.
You can download a complete copy of the Program here.
You can download a Word copy of the program here.
Photography and Video Advisory: Attendees may be photographed or filmed during the duration of this conference and at all affiliated events. Media outlets may include but are not limited to the following: Daily Bruin and UCLA Newsroom.