Past Meetings/Readings

Sunday, February 15, 2009
Petra Kuppers writing workshop: Cripple Art (work-in-progress).

Sunday, February 8, 2009
Tobin Siebers, Disability Theory (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008).
[Chapter 3, "Body Theory: From Social Construction to the New Realism of the Body," and Chapter 4, "Disability Studies and the Future of Identity Politics," pp. 53-95].

Sunday, January 4, 2009
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon (New York: Bantam, 1975 [1966]).

Sunday, November 9, 2008
Writing Workshop: Margaret Fink, “Imagining an Idiosyncratic Belonging: Representing Disability in Chris Ware’s ‘Building Stories’,” (work-in-progress).

Saturday, October 18, 2008 CANCELLED
Outing to see the film Blindness.

Sunday, October 5, 2008
“Introduction” from Ato Quayson, Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007).

Sunday, September 7, 2008
Jillian Wiese, The Amputee’s Guide to Sex ( Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull Press, 2007).

Sunday, August 7, 2008
Vivian Sobchack, “A Leg to Stand On: Prosthetics, Metaphor, and Materiality,” in Marquard Smith and Joanne Morra’s (eds.) The Prosthetic Impulse: From a Postmodern Present to a Biocultural Future (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2006): 17-42.


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