7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Breakfast Buffet and Late Registration Check-in (Luskin Center – Centennial Hall C/D)
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. “Morning Tea” with Michelle Erai (UCLA), Georgina Kleege (UC Berkeley), and Sue Schweik (UC Berkeley) (Centennial Hall C/D) *Ruminate on ideas that are in motion: contradictory thoughts, connections between, new arguments being developed by and between participants, connections/disconnects between artists’ presentations and scholars.
9:20 a.m. – 10:35 a.m. Breakout Session Five
PANEL: Disability and Social Media
PANEL: “Outsider Art” Meets Crip Resistance
PANEL: Disability and Literature
LECTURE: AXIS Dance Company: A Case Study in Physically Integrated Dance
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Breakout Session Six
PANEL: Chemical Entanglements
PANEL: Theorizing Methods with Media in Disability Studies: Digital Filmmaking, Archive, and Theater
WORKSHOP: Writing Disabled Characters: Experiences Navigating the Dos, the Don’ts and the Uncharted Territory
WORKSHOP: History Matters: On the Road to the ADA
12:15 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Buffet Lunch (Centennial Hall C/D)
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Keynote Address: Karen Nakamura, UC Berkeley (Centennial Hall C/D)
2:20 p.m. – 3:35 p.m. Breakout Session Seven
PANEL: Spectacular Atlases: Photography, Bodily Taxonomies, and Disability Justice
PANEL: Emerging Scholars Undergraduate Panel
PANEL: Disability and Film
PANEL: Disability and Nation Building
4:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Breakout Session Eight
PANEL: Disability and Images/Reclaiming Identity
PANEL/CONVERSATION: Breaking down barriers about sexual identity and needs for people with disabilities
PANEL: Commanding Presence: infiltrating the social through disability arts
PANEL: ʺAllʺ: The Virtual Dance Ensemble and Artist’s with Parkinson’s Project
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. “Afternoon Tea” with Michelle Erai (UCLA), Georgina Kleege (UC Berkeley), and Sue Schweik (UC Berkeley) (Centennial Hall C/D) *A wrap-up session to synthesize the ideas and discussions from the conference and thereafter.
**NOTES FOR FRIDAY:
- 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.
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