Disability Studies (PAMLA: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association)
San Francisco
Organization: PAMLA: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
Event: PAMLA: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
Disability Studies is a vibrant, interdisciplinary field that examines the ways disability is constructed across society, culture, and history. This session invites papers that engage with texts from a wide range of genres, media, cultures, and historical periods, analyzed through the lens of disability theory and/or lived experiences of disability. We welcome proposals that explore physical, sensory, cognitive, and/or mental disabilities, as well as issues related to pain, chronic illness, and invisible disabilities.
In keeping with the conference theme, Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion, we especially encourage proposals that reflect on the layered, overwritten, and oftentimes erased presence of disability in history and cultural memory. Possible topics might include—but are not limited to—disabled histories and erasure; neurodivergence and memory; crip time and nonlinear temporality; the 504 sit-ins and their afterlives; adaptive technologies and reinterpretation; disability and trauma; or figurations of amnesia, forgetting, and recovery.
We also invite proposals that move beyond the theme, including work that address intersectionality and coalitional politics in disability studies; disability in pre-modern or non-Western texts and cultures; and emergent theories, models, and methodologies in disability studies.
This panel aims to showcase scholarship that not only traces the traces, layered and obscured, of disability in cultural texts, but also imagines new ways of remembering, resisting, and rewriting.
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JULIE PAULSON
