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“Civil Disabilities: Theory, Citizenship, and the Body” will be explored in a two-day conference at the University of Pennsylvania, Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall, March 31-April 1, 2011. Over a dozen distinguished scholars, representing a wide array of academic disciplines, will present papers and films on the relationships between disability and immigration policies, schooling, medicine, adaptive technology, institutionalization, gender, the politics of pain, sexuality, eugenics, and reproduction. Presenters include Douglas Baynton, Susan Burch, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Faye Ginsberg, Robert McRuer, David Mitchell, Karen Nakamura, Rayna Rapp, Susan Schweik, Tobin Siebers, Sharon Snyder, Lorella Terzi, and Keith Wailoo.
The conference is open to the public. A full program can be accessed through our website, http://www.pachs.net/events/archive/civil_disabilities_theory_citizenship_and_the_body/
Please send queries to the conference organizers:
Nancy J. Hirschmann, Political Science, njh@sas.upenn.edu
Beth Linker, History and Sociology of Science, linker@sas.upenn.edu
Sigal R. Ben-Porath, Graduate School of Education, sigalbp@gse.upenn.edu
Mara Mills, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University, mmills@nyu.edu
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