Detailed Description
10am Welcome
10.15 Monograph Launch, Prof David Bolt
The Playground Model of Disability: Dis/Honesty Tropes in Contemporary British Sociocultural Representation
11-11.15 Refreshments
11.15 Course Launch, Dr Liam Owens
Disability Sport MA
11.45 Volume Launch, Chaired by Dr Erin Pritchard
Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse
- Dr Emma Swai, A New Testament: Changing Positionality, Changing Interpretation
- Dr Maryam Farahani, Figure Skating Pace and Olympic Policy: The Problematics of Performance Normativity Cultures in Women’s Sport
- Dr Felipe Moreira, Dury and Dwoskin: Disabled Gazes and De-Normalised Sociocultural Archives
- Dr Erin Pritchard, Cultural Stations of Dwarfism: From Little Helpers to Burney Nesbitt
1pm Lunch (not provided)
2pm Novel Launch, Saul Leslie
A Working Title I Want to Change
2.45 Refreshments
3-4.15 Encyclopedia Launch, Chaired by Dr Leah Burch
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies
- Dr Alison Wilde, Disability and Activism
- Dr Owen Barden, Participatory Historical Research with People with Learning Disabilities
- Dr Nina Michelle Worthington, How Disability Engages UK Theatre Practice
- Dr Leah Burch, Disability and Hate
