Nov. 2021 Meeting: Re-Presenting Disability, edited by Sandell, Dodd, and Garland-Thomson
Our November 2021 meeting of LMCC took place on Wed. Nov. 17 at 5:30pm est via Zoom. We discussed Re-Presenting Disability: Activism and Agency in the Museum, edited by Richard Sandell, Jocelyn Dodd, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (2010). Specifically, we’d discussed: … Read more
Nov. 2020 Meeting: Puar’s The Right to Maim
Our November, 2020 meeting of LMCC took place on Wed. Nov. 18 at 5:30pm via Zoom. We focused on Jasbir K. Puar’s The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, especially: Preface: “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot!” Introduction: “The Cost of Getting … Read more
Sept. 2020 Meeting: Knadler’s Vitality Politics
Our September, 2020 meeting of LMCC took place on Wed. Sept. 30 at 5:30pm via Zoom. We focused on Stephen Knadler’s Vitality Politics: Health, Debility, and the Limits of Black Emancipation, especially the introduction, “Ill-Defined Emancipations.” If you missed the … Read more
April Meeting — Friday, April 21st at 2:30pm
For our last LMCC meeting of the semester we will be investigating disability studies through the work of Christina Crosby and Ellen Samuels. Both articles are now posted under our readings section, and the meeting will take place in Gaskin … Read more
September Meeting—Thursday, September 29 at 3pm
We will have our first meeting of the semester on Thursday Sept 29th, from 3:00-4:30 pm in the HHIVE Lab (Greenlaw 524). This month we will be reading “Critical medical humanities: embracing entanglement, taking risks” by William Viney, Felicity Callard, Angela Woods, as well as Mel … Read more