Reading Group

Monday, June 14, 2021, 4 pm
online (zoom)

David T. Mitchell, Susan Antebi, and Sharon L. Snyder, «Introduction», in The Matter of Disability: Materiality, Biopolitics, Crip Affect, Ann Arbor 2019.

Herbert Bayer, «Aspects of Design of Exhibitions and Museums», in Curator: The Museum Journal, vol. 4, no. 3, July 1961.

Monday, December 7, 2020, 5 pm
online (zoom)

Excerpts from Jacques Derrida, Memoirs of the Blind: The Self-Portrait and Other Ruins, translated by P. Brault and M. Naas, Chicago/London 1993.

Monday, November 9, 2020, 5 pm
online (zoom)

Marta Russel, «Beyond Ramps? Identity Politics, FDR and the Problem of Power», in Beyond Ramps: Disability and the End of the Social Contract, Monroe 1998.

Colby Chamberlain, «Critical Care», in Artforum, vol. 59, no. 2, October/November 2020.

Monday, October 19, 2020, 5 pm
Room: RAK 2 208 or online (zoom)

Robert McRuer, «Compulsory Able-Bodies and Queer/Disabled Existence», in Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities, edited by Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, New York 2002.

Alison Kafer, «Time for Disability Studies and a Futur for Crips?», in Feminist, Queer Crip, Bloomington 2013.
 

Monday, October 5, 2020, 5 pm
Room: RAK 2 208 and online (zoom)

Rosemarie Garland Thomson, «Theorizing Disability», in: Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature, New York 1997.

Monday, September 21, 2020, 6 pm
Room: RAA-E-8 and online (zoom)

Ann Millett-Gallant and Elizabeth Howie, «Disability and Art History: Introduction» & Nina Heindl, «Exploiting, Degrading, and Repellent: Against A Biased Interpretation of Contemporary Art About Disability», in: Disability and Art History, edited by Ann Millett-Gallant and Elizabeth Howie, London/New York 2017.

Rosemarie Garland Thomson, «Disability, Identity, and Representation: An Introduction», in: Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature, New York 1997.