SATURDAY, APRIL 24TH

Registration                                                              8:30 – 9:00 am

Session 1                                                                   9:00 – 10:00 am

Panel 1

A Place to Call Home: Intellectual Disabilities and Residential Services in Nova Scotia

Rachel Barken

The Ashley Smith Tragedy: Reconsidering the Mental Health Needs of Women and Girls in Custody

Christina J.  Hollingshead

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Panel 2

As the Shoulder Heals: One Woman’s Experience Surviving Two Car Accidents

Sandra Broekhof

A Journey Toward Empowerment: Perspectives of A Disability Rights Activist

Julia Munk

Session 2                                                                   10:15 – 11:15 am

Panel 1

Two Cultures, One Programme: Deaf Professors as Subaltern?

Campbell McDermid

More than an Accomplishment: Deaf Education in the Maritimes, 1856 - 1892

Joanna L. Pearce

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Panel 2

(Mis) Perception of Change: Education Opportunities at

the Toronto District School Board 40 Years Later

Gillian Parekh

The Ethical Integration of Brain Machine Interfaces: Towards

the Cyborganization of Disabled People

Stella Palikarova

Lunch                                                                         11:15 – 12:15 pm

Session 3                                                                   12:15 - 1:15 pm

Panel 1

Mad People in Academia

Jenna Reid

How a Counter-discourse to the Psychopathology of ‘Obsessions’ Departs from the Trope of ‘Mad Genius’: An Autoethnographic Study of Relationality from ‘Local to Universal’

Louise Tam

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Panel 2

Too Much Has Happened That Will Never be Told: Lesbian Madness

Narratives Since the 1970s

Alisa Das

Everyday Monsters: Assuming the Threat of the Black Disabled Feminine Subject

Onyinyechukwu Udegbe

Session 4                                                                   1:30 – 2:30 pm

Panel 1

Work (in progress)

Chavisa Brett

“If I Had A Normal Job I Couldn’t Do This”: Exploring The Economics of Disability Advocacy Motherhood and Inclusive Education

Samantha Walsh & Elisabeth Harrison

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Panel 2

Rendering Bodies: Medical Aesthetics and Contemporary Art

Drew Danielle Belsky

The Power of the Music of the Night: Alterity and Resistance Through Gothic Subversion in the Phantom of the Opera

Sarah Sackville McLauchlan

Art Exhibition and Poster Session                       2:30 – 3:00 pm

Keynote Address                                                    3:00 – 4:00 pm

The Campaign for a Barrier-Free Ontario - What Progress? What Prospects?

David Lepofsky

Roundtable                                                                4:00 – 5:00 pm

Disability in Academia: Debating the Merits

Presented by Access York, this panel will explore the goals and considerations of studying disability in academia. "Experts" on disability from a wide range of disciplines (e.g. Psychology, Rehabilitation, Education, Science, Critical Disability Studies) will compare and contrast their own views on "studying" disability. Through highlighting an oppressive past in disability research, "experts" will discuss how to proceed in the future. Questions considered include: How does one study disability? Is there a right way to study disability; and if so, who decides what that is? How can seemingly opposing views on studying disability collaborate and benefit from each other? Or is that even possible? What is the merit in having these perceived opposing views? How does this inform future research and study?

Reception                                                                  5:00 – 7:00 pm