Department of English
Program
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D I S A B I L I T Y & M O D E R N I S M
—Sponsored by—
The Penn English Department • The Penn School of Arts and Sciences
The Penn Humanities Forum • The Annenberg School for Communication
The Project on Bioethics, Sexuality, and Gender Identity
The Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program & The Alice Paul Center
Main conference events to be held at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk, Philadelphia
Additional conference events to be held at Fisher-Bennett Hall, 3340 Walnut St., Philadelphia
Thursday, March 14
| 4:00 | Welcoming Remarks Paul Saint-Amour |Associate Professor of English |University of Pennsylvania |
| 4:15 | Opening Roundtable Moderator: Heather Love | Associate Professor of English |University of Pennsylvania |
| 5:45 | Dinner Break |
Friday, March 15
| 9:00 | Coffee & Continental Breakfast |
| 9:15 | “Seeing Touching Feeling: The Haptic Art of Judith Scott” Rachel Adams | Professor of English & Comparative Literature |Columbia University Respondent: Clare Mullaney | Ph.D. student | Department of English |University of Pennsylvania |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 | “Booker T. Washington Does the World’s Work: Racial Uplift and Disability” Todd Carmody, ACLS/Mellon New Faculty Fellow & Visiting Assistant Professor of English |UC Berkeley Respondent: Philip Tsang | Ph.D. candidate | Department of English |University of Pennsylvania |
| Noon | Lunch, FBH Faculty Lounge, FBH |
| 1:00 |
“Capacious Physiology, Modernist Disability”
“Modernism, Conrad, and Cognitive Disability” |
| 3:15 | Coffee Break |
| 3:30 | “Modernist Eugenics and Postmodern Poetics” Susan Schweik | Professor of English & Associate Dean of Arts & Humanities |UC Berkeley Respondent: Vaclav Paris | Ph.D. candidate | Department of English |University of Pennsylvania |
| 4:45 | Closing Discussion, Faculty Lounge, FBH Moderator: Jed Esty | Professor of English |University of Pennsylvania |
| 5:30 | Drinks reception, Faculty Lounge, FBH |