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UMinDS Recordings - Winter 2006 Recordings

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Jan 6 - Review of Syllabus. Student Introductions. Disability and Humanities. Background reading: Albrecht

Jan 13 - Minority Identity: A Theoretical Introduction. Readings: Davis; Dworkin and Dworkin; Kudlick

Jan 20 - Disability as Minority Identity. Visiting Speaker: Kristine Mulhorn. Readings: Baynton; Snyder and Mitchell 2002

Jan 27 - Race and Disability. Readings: Mitchell and Snyder; Pernick

Feb 3 - Race Theory and Disability. Visiting Speaker: Martha Jones. Readings: Asch; McGovern. Short Description of Project and Bibliography Due.

Feb 10 - Race and Cognitive Disability. Visiting Speaker: Jonathan Metzl. Readings: Goffman; Loury

Feb 17 - Student Response and Review Session

Feb 24 - Feminism and Disability. Visiting Speaker: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. Readings: Mairs 1996; Garland-Thomson 2002b, 2005; Wendell 1996

Mar 3 - Winter Break -- No Class

Mar 10* - Sex and Disability: Readings: Mairs; O'Brien; Wilkerson; for O'Brien's poetry go to http://www.pacificnews.org/marko

Mar 17 - Queer Bodies. Visiting Speaker: Robert McRuer. Readings: Edelman; Ferguson; Halberstam

Mar 24 - Feminism: The Rejected Body. Readings: Garland-Thomson 2001, 2002a; Wendell 2001

Mar 31 - Performativity and Disability. Visiting Speaker: Carrie Sandahl. Readings: Auslander and Sandahl; Brueggermann; Kuppers; Titchkosky; Sandahl

Apr 7 - Minority Identity Redux. Readings: Fox and Lipton; Herndon; Samuels

Apr 14 - Reporting on Student Projects. Final Project or Paper Due.