tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69037642012-01-30T21:17:45.387-05:00Cool stuff in the world of Disability Studies, Geography, and History. Based at Temple University in Philadelphia, with contributors from coast to coast. Check out our 'Notable Blogs' list below - your portal to the disability blog world.Mike Dornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00373835106026166507noreply@blogger.comBlogger9361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-90968633962515518642012-01-18T23:56:00.005-05:002012-01-19T01:09:03.412-05:00

So I've seen this idea twice recently, in other contexts... a tire with text or art carved into the treads. Here it is at the blog Letterology, in a detail from an illustration from 19c. Paris. The rider has a tank of ink attached to the back of his three-wheeled cycle, to continuously coat the tires and print words on the pavement as he rides... Ink would probably make this an illegal device

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[visual description: a portrait of composer John Stanley, apparently in middle age, wearing a white powdered wig and a brass-buttoned coat; his eyes are noticeably scarred]Born on this date 300 years ago today, in London, English composer John Stanley (best click that link before or after Wikipedia goes dark on 18 January). Stanley was blind after a fall in early childhood. The boy turned out

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So let me get this straight...If parents walk into a children's hospital and ask for a highly unconventional series of surgeries to remove healthy tissue and organs, limiting their daughter's growth... a series of surgeries that would never be performed on a nondisabled child... the answer is, fine, because she's developmentally disabled?BUT, if parents walk into a children's hospital and ask for

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Emma at Writer in a Wheelchair was the first to claim hosting duties for the Disability Blog Carnival in 2012. And now she has the call for submissions for January's edition up:this year I've decided that a focus word might be a good thing to have along with my goals for the year. And the word I've chosen is Courage.For the carnival this time round I thought it would be interesting to know

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It's been up for a day or two already, but it's still fresh and worth a visit (or two, or ten). Check out the December edition at After Gadget, where the theme is "Disability and Occupy," and the entries are grouped to subthemes, like "Occupy Activists with Disabilities" and "Educating Occupies about Disability and Access Issues." (In case you think it might be all happy tales, there's also a

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Professor of Political Science in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute visited us at the CSIC last summer. We,-that is, Paco Guzmán, Mario Toboso and yours faithfully- had the opportunity to share knowledge about artifacts ideology, which is Langdon´s expertise related with disability. You can visit Langdon´s webpage at: http://homepages.rpi.edu/~

Caperucita Cojanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-72520941355201351262011-12-08T11:47:00.004-05:002011-12-08T22:35:53.527-05:00

Actually, it's been up for more than a week--but I just found it. My apologies to the host, the contributors, and all eager followers of the carnival. Anyway, Martha at Believe in Who You Are has the November edition, around the theme of inspiration (in all its complexity). Go have a visit, definitely some fine links worth checking out.The December edition is scheduled to be hosted at After

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Every week during halftime on Sunday Night Football, Toyota announces which sports-related non-profit organization is getting $10,000 in their weekly campaign to publicize such groups. Last Sunday, it was Shane's Inspiration's turn, and my son is in the 15-second video's opening scene (blond kid in the Convaid chair, on the right of the picture, next to the rollerslide):[Video description:

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ARC Handbell Choir, WestwoodOriginally uploaded by pennylrichardsca More than five years ago, I wrote about Dixie Henrikson here, after seeing her obituary in the Los Angeles Times. Henrikson (d. 2006) was one of those mid-20th-century mothers of a disabled child who was tireless in founding programs--in her case, social activities for young adults with developmental disabilities. One of her

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-7349617942560162202011-11-14T11:49:00.003-05:002011-11-14T11:57:15.771-05:00

There are plenty of videos on YouTube from the Occupy movement--that's the nature of activism and social media in 2011. But this one from Oakland is particularly good, and it includes the disabled activists who are involved. The disabled activist they interview between 2:00 and 2:30 (her name isn't given) is articulate and prepared, and puts disability in context with the other concerns of the

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-55882516226777801092011-11-03T15:53:00.004-04:002011-11-14T11:25:22.795-05:00

[Visual description: Disability Blog Carnival logo by Ryn, featuring a black-and-white photograph of a man and a boy. The man is in uniform and holding crutches; he is apparently an amputee; the boy is holding onto one of the crutches as a child might hold an adult's hand; the two are photographed from behind, and we see beyond them a seashore and a bridge]Spaz Girl at Butterfly Dreams was in

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Spaz Girl at Butterfly Dreams is hosting this month. Here's her call for links:I'm hosting the October Disability Blog Carnival! Pieces of the June one are still languishing in my drafts folder, and I intend to actually put it up.....sometime. But onto October! My theme for the October DBC is sweet is the melody. How does music help you get through the tough times related to disability?

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It's the September edition of the Carnival (which started in autumn 2006--so we're coming around to our fifth anniversary? wow), hosted at Never That Easy, with the theme "Being Seen." NTE has rounded up some fine links with the usual range of thoughtful, funny, raging, and wise, and it's worth a look. It's our first carnival edition since last spring, which is a long gap--so give the host and

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From H-Disability: Call for ProposalsSociety for Disability Studies25th Annual ConferenceDenver, ColoradoJune 20-23, 2012Collaborations, Cultures, and CommunitiesSubmission system will open November 1, 2011at http://www.disstudies.org Deadline for submissions: December 1, 2011The terms "collaborations," "cultures,"and "communities" express many meanings on many different levels, ranging from the

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Today's the centennial of the birth of bluegrass legend Bill Monroe. One of Monroe's best-known songs, "Uncle Pen," was about the disabled uncle who looked after him and taught him to play all the old tunes.Pendleton Vandiver (1869- 1932) was born in rural Kentucky, the second-youngest of ten children. Somewhere along the way, he married and had two children, but the marriage broke up and he

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From H-Disability:Call for papers: Intellectual Disability in Medieval and Early Modern Europe This special session will take place at the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 10-13, 2012). In Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, the steward Malvolio clearly connects fooling to intellectual disability when he says to the fool Feste,

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-61481464809706222322011-09-07T12:50:00.004-04:002011-09-09T11:49:58.009-04:00

A young girl wearing a white pinafore and boots, using her hands to examine various ornithological specimens in a museum gallery; from the Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums uploads to Flickr Commons.There have been several recent conferences on making museums accessible to blind patrons--and next month (October) is Art Beyond Sight Awareness Month--but the project of opening museum collections and

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Call for Papers Cripples, Idiots, Lepers, and Freaks: Extraordinary Bodies / Extraordinary Minds Thursday, March 22 – Friday, March 23, 2012 The Graduate Center of the City University of New York Could disability be, as Susan Wendell writes, “valued for itself, or for the different knowledge, perspective, and experience of life” it gives rise to? This conference seeks to continue—and to

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Born on this date in 1918, English educator Phyllis Wallbank. She worked with displaced children as a young woman in wartime London, and knew she wanted to find a way to make that her profession; a chance to hear Maria Montessori speak became the means to that end. Wallbank is one of the UK's best-known proponents of the Montessori method. In 1948 she opened Gatehouse School on the grounds of

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A carnival edition is set for September 27th. Here's the call... short version, extracted by the host herself, below:"...I've decided to provide a non-compulsory theme to help out those who feel they want it: Being Seen. It's something I'm struggling to work out for myself, so I figured I'd ask how you all are handling it - How do you want to be seen? How are you seen? Do you feel invisible?

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Here's the call. August host lifeofthedifferentlyabled has an email address to send submissions to; they'll be accepted until August 20th; suggested theme is "courage."

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Here's the latest: Spaz Girl (Cara) has the call for the June Disability Blog Carnival, with the theme "community," which she's hosting. She'd love to have submissions by June 25. And it's time to recruit hosts for the rest of 2011. We do a monthly carnival these days, so we need six hosts, July-December. Who's in? Leave comments, I'll update this post as we fill slots. UPDATE 7/26: The

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-52728908916237656742011-06-01T21:23:00.002-04:002011-06-01T21:25:12.893-04:00

Found at http://neurodiversitysymposium.wordpress.com:On August 5, 2011, Syracuse University will be hosting a regional symposium on neurodiversity and autistic self-advocacy. Neurodiversity is a concept and social movement that advocates for viewing autism as a variation of human wiring, rather than a disease. As such, neurodiversity activists reject the idea that autism should be cured,

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People at Circular Quay Sydney, ca. 1885-1890 / photographed by Arthur K. Syer Originally uploaded by State Library of New South Wales collectionAnother historical image of a wheelchair in use, recently uploaded to Flickr Commons by the State Library of New South Wales. [Visual description: A sepia-toned photograph from 1885-1890, of a man from behind, pushing a man seated in a wheelchair,

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-88190358963954234072011-05-26T13:06:00.006-04:002011-05-26T13:44:22.523-04:00

[above: Portrait of Moondog later in life, with long white beard]I wondered how, as a blind man, he managed to cross the street without an instant of hesitation until he showed me how he listened to traffic lights; I had never heard them before in this way.--Philip Glass, on fellow composer Moondog; from his introduction to Robert Scotto, Moondog: The Viking of Sixth Avenue (Process 2007).

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Regular DSTU readers won't be a bit surprised that I like visiting the Wikipedia pages that say what happened on this date in other years. On today's, there's this note:1817 – Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.The name of the

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-91434424877656647362011-05-04T13:27:00.003-04:002011-05-05T14:56:07.345-04:00

[visual description: a drawing of Marie Booth as a young woman, in profile, head bowed over folded hands; she has her hair in a low bun, and is wearing glasses and a high-collared jacket]It's hard to imagine more formidable parents than Catherine and William Booth, the founders of the Salvation Army. Intensely religious and endlessly energetic in the pursuit of their causes, they had eight

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-75164843203699572832011-05-03T12:10:00.002-04:002011-05-03T12:36:42.603-04:00

The May edition of the Disability Blog Carnival will be hosted by Astrid at Astrid's Journal, with the theme "Care." Here's her explanation: This could be health or social care, but also the care family members provide each other or self-care, of course. Please submit your posts in a comment here or E-mail me by May 25. I will post the carnival on May 29.Astrid also mentions that the Blog

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-31139938884019703932011-05-01T15:10:00.005-04:002011-05-01T21:16:51.606-04:00

I've had a rant coming on since, oh, 2008 (my paper at the Berks conference that year reflected the beginnings of this rant), and nothing in the time since has allayed my concerns, so here it is, for Blogging Against Disablism Day 2011. (This is DSTU's sixth time in the event; read our past entries here: 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006.)Disability history is too important to hide away in journals,

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-89733734778555673912011-04-29T15:35:00.004-04:002011-04-29T15:59:13.141-04:00

I recently picked up the English translation of the Italian novel Nati due volte by the late Giuseppe Pontiggia, because it seemed like my kind of subject--the narrator is a father whose second son has cerebral palsy. It's not so much a novel as a series of vignettes, thirty-eight scenes across the son's first three decades, in the father's marriage and work lives. I have no way to judge

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-24695803639362330332011-04-24T09:59:00.005-04:002011-04-24T10:20:18.772-04:00

Goldfish called me "a real community blogger" back in January, but I haven't been doing a very good job of that lately! A few efforts to make up for that:The SIXTH annual Blogging Against Disablism Day (BADD) is coming up on May 1 (a Sunday this year), coordinated as always by Goldfish. We've participated every other round, and I'll try to get something ready for this year too--but that's one

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-91783524410908907142011-03-27T22:56:00.005-04:002011-04-13T19:57:51.358-04:00

[left: blog carnival logo featuring black-and-white historical image of a hospital, with the words "disability blog carnival/can't shut us up now" superimposed in yellow scrawly print]It's a milestone! And to mark the occasion, Emma at Writer in a Wheelchair has this month's edition of the Disability Blog Carnival, with the theme "Milestones." The milestones represented include weddings, new

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-34400349425892551942011-03-03T22:20:00.005-05:002011-03-03T23:00:07.508-05:00

I miss the FWD blog for all kinds of reasons, but one of the features they did really well was "Dear Imprudence," reviewing advice columnists' advice on matters pertaining to disability. Now, I don't claim to have anything like their wealth of insight on the subject, but you don't need much insight to realize that today's Ask Amy advice is just wrong.The question comes from a woman who uses a

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-12807755302114819152011-02-26T01:17:00.003-05:002011-02-26T01:30:36.924-05:00

[Visual description: historical image of a man in profile, facing right; he has a peg-type prosthetic right leg, and is using a walking stick. The words "Disability Blog Carnival" are superimposed. This was the second Disability Blog Carnival logo, first appearing in early 2007.]Go have a read at Through Myself and Back Again, where Lilwatchergirl has assembled a good collection of links

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Wow, so two years after I first wrote about this, Cerrie Burnell's arm is still a matter of controversy? Maybe because I'm also reading Sue Schweik's The Ugly Laws right now, it seems amazing that in 2011 we're still anxious about the sight of an arm that doesn't end in a hand. For recent blogging about Cerrie Burnell's story, see Planet of the Blind and Bess's The Right to Design, among

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Born on this date in 1907, Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence (show above in her wheelchair, smiling in a hallway for LIFE magazine; a man stands behind the chair; they appear to be dressed for a formal event). Marjorie Lawrence was a noted performer of Wagner heroines. In 1941, while appearing in an opera in Mexico, she contracted polio. Eighteen months later, after treatment with Sister

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-27024402136213602572011-01-22T14:50:00.004-05:002011-01-22T15:26:12.415-05:00

C.P. Steinmetz (LOC)Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. --Charles Proteus SteinmetzNew in the Flickr Commons this week, a fine portrait of Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865-1923), a Prussian-born mathematician. He was just 23 when he finished his doctoral work at Breslau; soon after, he immigrated into the United States. As

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SpazGirl at Butterfly Dreams has the "Freak Flag" January edition of the Disability Blog Carnival up now, with a fine array of links, nicely curated. Go have a read through the first carnival edition of 2011.February's edition will be hosted by lilwatchergirl at the blog Through Myself and Back Again. Watch there for more details (or here, when I link to them). ETA: The carnival will post on

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North Carolina writer Reynolds Price died today, from a heart attack, just before his 77th birthday, according to a Duke University press release and the Charlotte Observer. Here's the birthday post we had for Price at DS,TU in 2007.

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-923768082261836632011-01-15T21:59:00.008-05:002011-01-16T16:06:43.579-05:00

[Video description: scenes of Papua New Guinea, including beaches, food markets; then we see Francis Kompaon, a dark-skinned young man in a red athletic jersey. There are interviews with him, translated by a voice-over in English, and scenes of him running, playing soccer, and walking in a market. He describes going to school and loving sports from a young age. There is also an interview with

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[Image description: 19c. portrait of George T. Dougherty as a young white man, with dark hair and a full beard]Who would have dreamed one hundred years ago that this could ever be possible? Then the deaf were uneducated and widely scattered, unknown to each other; their influence, of course, was nil.--George T. Dougherty, at the 1893 World's Congress of the Deaf, as quoted in H-Dirksen L.

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Dave Hingsburger has the December edition of the Disability Blog Carnival up this week at his blog, Rolling Around in my Head--he invited links about darkness and long nights and ways through them, marking the winter solstice, and he says "I applaud all who submitted and thank them for the many times I was moved, to tears, to thought and, perhaps even, to action." The January edition will be

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[Visual description: 1940 US Postage stamp honoring Edward MacDowell, depicted as a mustachioed white man with a sweep of thick hair, wearing a stiff collar and tie.]Today is the 150th anniversary of American composer Edward MacDowell, born on this date in 1860 in New York City (though some sources give 1861). He showed promise as a pianist from a young age; when he was 17, his family moved to

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-22639058642828877342010-12-16T10:47:00.004-05:002010-12-16T10:54:30.388-05:00

Call for Papers: Disability and Native American/Indigenous StudiesSpecial Issue of Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability (JLCDS)Guest Editors, Siobhan Senier and Penelope KelseyIn Colonizing Bodies: Aboriginal Health and Healing in British Columbia 1900-1950, a Nisga’a elder implores the historian Mary Ellen Kelm: “When we talk about the poor health of our people, remember it all began with

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-74563857565309188822010-11-28T16:50:00.001-05:002010-11-28T18:01:44.054-05:00

Another sad, sudden loss: disability rights activist and poet Laura Hershey has died after a very brief illness. The Denver Post obituary has such a lovely photograph of her, and summarizes the facts of her life and work. Laura's facebook page has become (as they do, in such times) a place for posting condolences to the family and memories and tributes. Many other blogs have been posting the

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The November edition is up at Modus Dopens, and it's a good solid collection of links, around the theme of intersections. Go, fix yourself a drink (suggests the host!), and have a read.The December edition is due to post at Rolling Around in My Head, where Dave H has invited posts around the theme "long nights and what we need to get through them," appropriate for the month with the literal

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Disability Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (DSG)Todd Reynolds DSG Student Paper Competition - 2011- Call for Papers - Students working on topics concerned with the complex and multifaceted geographies of disability, aging and chronic illnesses are encouraged to submit a paper to the 2011 AAG Disability Specialty Group Student Paper Competition. The successful student

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A call for papers from H-Disability today:CFP: Disability, Humour and ComedyA Special Issue of the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability StudiesGuest Edited byDr. Tom Coogan (University of Leicester)Dr. Rebecca Mallett (Sheffield Hallam University)According to Morreall (2009), the Incongruity Theory “is today the most widely accepted theory of humour.” This theory holds that what makes a

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[Visual description: A Disability Blog Carnival logo (apologies, I forget who made this one--Blue, maybe?) with "disability blog carnival" in red, superimposed over a photograph of the Alison Lapper Pregnant statue by Marc Quinn]Carnival edition #71 will be hosted at the blog Modus Dopens, where Irrational Point invites you to submit your own or others' recent writing on the theme "intersections

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-77752964270737316682010-11-02T11:43:00.001-04:002010-11-02T11:43:18.957-04:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Voting (N.Y. Election District 7), originally uploaded by Edu-Tourist. I hope all of our readers took time out of their busy schedules today to vote in this important midterm election. Feel free to use this stem to post

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The deadline for submissions to this conference is Friday 5 November, so if you're interested, there's no time to lose! Picturing Women's Health 1750-1910A One-Day Postgraduate Interdisciplinary ConferenceUniversity of Warwick, Saturday 22 January 2011Plenary speakers: Prof. Hilary Marland (University of Warwick) Dr. Claire Brock (University of Leicester) The conference Picturing Women’s

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Posted to the H-Net this week, by Jana Cephas of the Harvard Graduate School of Design:The Body in History / The Body in SpaceGraduate Student SymposiumMarch 26, 2011Barker Center for the Humanities, Harvard University The history of the body has been a locus of prolific research in the past several decades, engaging scholars from disciplines as diverse as history of medicine, cultural history,

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CALL FOR PAPERSSociety for Disability Studies23rd Annual ConferenceSan José California, Doubletree HotelJune 15-18, 2011Beyond Access: From Disability Rights to Disability JusticeDeadline for submissions: December 15, 2010http://www.disstudies.org[Disability justice is] not self-sufficiency but self-determination, not independence but interdependence, not functional separateness but personal

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"I am Grace Padaca. I share my story because I know there are many who are like me, not big people, not rich, not strong. I know there are many like me whose strength is inside." --from a campaign appearance by Grace PadacaAbove: Gracia Cielo "Grace" Magno Padaca, former Governor of Isabela Province in the Philippines, standing on a

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-70840758991813545282010-10-17T14:37:00.004-04:002010-10-17T14:53:46.434-04:00

There's an article about a Congolese band in the LA Times today. The band is named Staff Benda Bilili, and they're the subject of a recent documentary, because most of the men in the band are physically disabled. (The print version of the article has more groaningly cliched headlines than the online version. You can probably imagine them.)They were a street band in Kinshasa when they were

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-67920294339797639442010-10-13T12:56:00.003-04:002010-10-13T13:01:08.115-04:00

From a recent announcement on H-Connecticut and H-Disability. If you're in New England and get a chance to see this, let us know what you thought!The National Theatre of the Deaf and Connecticut’s Old State House presentJourneys of IdentityHartford, CT - Journeys of Identity, a new play by Garrett Zuercher, brings to life the story of Thomas Gallaudet, founder of the nation’s first school for

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[visual description: Disability Blog Carnival logo featuring an old patent drawing of a back brace, with "the Disability Blog Carnival: a bracing event" superimposed in blue text]Yes, #70. Astrid has gathered up and organized a wonderful collection of links around the theme of "identity," with tantalizing extracted quotes that will have you clicking to read more. Thank you, Astrid.Next month's

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-76768565132367816552010-09-21T16:19:00.004-04:002010-09-21T16:29:09.113-04:00

Program serves students from a wide range of academic disciplines and professional backgroundsSTONY BROOK, N.Y., September 14, 2010 Press Release – Stony Brook University is now accepting applications for its Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics track in the Master of Arts in Biological Sciences. Courses begin in the spring 2011 semester. Named for the Center for Medical

Mike Dornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00373835106026166507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-65441694460371611902010-09-16T22:56:00.003-04:002010-09-16T23:03:57.449-04:00

For earlier installments in the series, see #1 and #2.Again, the Australian Dictionary of Biography comes through with a winning disability-related snippet:Although she dressed 'carelessly in skirts and sweaters', Dreyer had 'a passion for ornate drop earrings and exotic perfumes'. Humorous and warm hearted, she gave an annual party for 'Annabella', her wooden leg.That would be from the entry

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I've got kids, so I've got kid CDs, and they're not really so bad as you might think--I came late to the game, never had Barney or Raffi, straight into Ralph's World and Laurie Berkner. And there are definitely songs that make me happy from a disability perspective. But this one just came across my desk, by a friend-of-friends, and it's not like anything else I've run into:Visual description:

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-69992266074584529662010-08-30T16:22:00.005-04:002010-08-30T16:46:44.878-04:00

[visual description: Howard L. Rice in a wheelchair, holding a microphone; he's an older white man wearing glasses and a grey suit]It's been a rough month for disability obituaries. We lost historian Paul Longmore (1946-2010), of course, and activist Barbara Knowlen (1941-2010), and I've recently learned of another: Rev. Howard L. Rice (1932-2010), former chaplain and Professor of Ministry at

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-66589605108332435412010-08-27T16:28:00.001-04:002010-08-27T16:28:45.814-04:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Buildings line the street inside to Woods Services campus in Langhorne, PA., originally uploaded by Edu-Tourist. Originally published: August 20, 2010 6:45 PMUpdated: August 20, 2010 10:01 PMBy ZACHARY R. DOWDY

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Buildings line the street inside to Woods Services campus in Langhorne, PA. , originally uploaded by Edu-Tourist. Originally published: August 20, 2010 7:13 PMUpdated: August 20, 2010 10:43 PMBy ZACHARY R. DOWDY

Mike Dornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00373835106026166507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-67763616211340437922010-08-27T08:38:00.005-04:002010-08-27T09:16:34.139-04:00

And has been up for a while--but I was away from the internet on a family vacation and couldn't post about it until now. Thanks to Kali at Brilliant Mind, Broken Body, who has gathered a nice collection of links around the theme of "distance." Go have a read, link away, and leave a comment too.Next month's edition will be hosted by Astrid at Astrid's Journal, who writes to me that the "theme

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I wrote this post last weekend, planning to put it up on Tuesday the 10th. Obviously other matters became more urgent. So I'm going to put this up now. --Ed.You know the plotline if you've seen any medical dramas on TV: A gifted surgeon is in an accident, or maybe the victim of a crime, or perhaps falls very ill. He (it's usually a "he") survives, but....gasp! his hand! Injured beyond

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"The truth is that the major obstacles we must overcome are pervasive social prejudice, systematic segregation, and institutionalized discrimination."--Paul Longmore, "Why I Burned my Book"Sad news today. Paul Longmore, professor of history and director of the Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University, has died suddenly. There will surely be many, many remembrances and

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Call for Proposals: Disability in America: Voices of a New GenerationAri Ne’eman and Stacey Milbern, Co-EditorsDeadline: January 15, 2011This year, the disability community is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), civil rights law that protects the rights of disabled people.Growing up in a post-ADA America has meant that many of us have had

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[visual description: photo used by RMJ in her edition of the Carnival; features a man making cotton candy; only his arms and torso are visible; a pinwheel and some heartshaped objects occupy the foreground]RMJ at Deeply Problematic has just posted the July edition of the Disability Blog Carnival, with the theme "evidence." Go check it out for the usual remarkable range of voices and topics and

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[From H-Disability and DS-Hum listservs.]First Call for Papers:Disability & the Victorians: Confronting Legacies30th July-1st August 2012Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, Leeds Trinity University College, UKThe nineteenth century was the period during which disability was conceptualised, categorised, and defined. The industrial evolution, advances in medicine, the emergence of philanthropy and

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CALL FOR PAPERS: International Interdisciplinary Conference “We and the others” XVII Semana de Ética y Filosofía Política. Donostia-San Sebastián (Spain); 1, 2,3 of June 2011 The Spanish Association of Political Philosophy &Ethics is celebrating its 38th meeting in Donostia-San Sebastián this coming June, 2011. Thought as a meeting point for academic philosophy, European and Latin-American

Caperucita Cojanoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-69215473462780076032010-06-28T12:20:00.004-04:002010-06-28T12:28:09.555-04:00

From DS-Hum and H-Disability listservs (links added):Disability in an Intersectional Lens:A Conference of Emerging Scholars in Disability StudiesCall for ProposalsThe Beyond Compliance Coordinating Committee, the SU Center on Human Policy, Law and Disability Studies and the SU Disability Cultural Center Initiative are jointly seeking proposals for our second Disability Studies Conference to be

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-50759990243551291912010-06-27T20:09:00.004-04:002010-06-27T20:16:58.235-04:00

[visual description: Disability Blog Carnival logo, featuring an old photograph of a hospital with the words "Disability Blog Carnival: Can't Shut Us Up Now" superimposed in yellow scrawly lettering]It's a big busy summer carnival this time, so settle in with a beverage and plan to spend a while. Dave Hingsburger has assembled more than two dozen links, most of them in response to his call for

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-230007577511880712010-06-24T12:15:00.012-04:002010-11-01T18:40:03.349-04:00

[visual description: Disability Blog Carnival logo, featuring an old patent drawing of a torso bracing device]So I think this will be the lineup of hosts for the upcoming Disability Blog Carnivals. I'm working from the comments stream in my last post about the Carnival. People often volunteer to host without giving me any way to contact them by email, so it could take a while to confirm

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-51653779947439359632010-06-18T14:21:00.008-04:002010-06-19T09:18:27.126-04:00

[Visual description: Photograph of a Rose Parade float in Pasadena, 2009, sponsored by the Lions Club, featuring a large framed image of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan, with many many flowers below and "The Miracle Workers" as the caption; taken by me]As I said when we announced we'd be participating in the Helen Keller Mythbusting Blogswarm, we've already done some mythbusting posts about Helen

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-69090448304221471252010-06-16T09:22:00.003-04:002010-06-16T09:44:05.899-04:00

I've mentioned before that I find the CDCAN email updates from Marty Omoto invaluable for following what's happening in our state capital that might affect Californians with disabilities (and my own family in that). Of course, lately it's been a lot of frustrating and frightening news about cut programs and languishing bills. So this morning's update was a nice change from all that...."SB 1256,

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-63914217549464305162010-06-15T14:05:00.004-04:002010-06-15T14:41:37.618-04:00

[Visual description: book cover for "Peel My Love Like an Onion" by Ana Castillo; a woman's face in flamenco-dancing costume is partly hidden by a fan]"A friend suggested that I see a doctor, as if a doctor could give me a new leg, another spine, make me fifteen years younger. The doctor sent me to a therapist who then advised me to take a ceramics course at City College to channel all that

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-13970140966236424252010-06-12T13:08:00.005-04:002010-06-12T13:16:48.883-04:00

Out of the Box, the blog for the London School of Economics Archives, announced recently that they've completed further cataloguing in the Hall Carpenter Archives, a collection of materials related to the history of gay activism in Britain. Among the items of ephemera they chose to highlight the holdings is this cover from the Winter 1983 issue of the Gay Men's Disabled Group newsletter:Looks

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-34877571381101951872010-06-12T10:42:00.007-04:002010-06-12T11:47:25.104-04:00

More information here. Regular DSTU readers will know I love a good feminist disability history mythbusting blogswarm. I'm so there. Past mythbusting DSTU posts about Helen Keller include:Keeping Helen Company in Statuary Hall(was Helen Keller's statue the first showing a person with a disability in the US Capitol's Statuary Hall? No, not really)June 27: Helen Keller (1880-1968)(Is HK "the

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-72414955171656266002010-05-20T14:15:00.004-04:002010-05-20T14:31:24.966-04:00

[visual description: blog carnival logo featuring an old photo of a hospital, superimposed with the words "Disability Blog Carnival: Can't shut us up now"]Terri at Barriers, Bridges, and Books gives us a collection of links around the theme of "Story"--go have a page through some stories and thoughts on telling stories about disability.The June carnival host is Dave Hingsburger of "Rolling

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-22280562450066533052010-05-20T09:07:00.005-04:002010-05-20T09:45:34.052-04:00

The New York Public Library is marking the 115th anniversary of the founding of the Talking Book and Braille Service in the US and in New York City. It started in 1895 with 57 braille books, a free circulating library set up by a blind man, Richard Randall Ferry (1839-1906). Ferry had been a prosperous hat manufacturer before becoming blind in 1891; he had the resources and the drive to get

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-16338241797626733562010-05-14T11:13:00.009-04:002010-05-23T21:59:06.816-04:00

The Society for Disability Studies' annual conference, "Disability in the Geo-Political Imagination," kicks off Wednesday, June 2, on the campus of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This year's will be the largest SDS conference ever, with a day-long inclusive education preconference on June 2, and five concurrent streams of papers, as well as a film festival in a dedicated theater

Mike Dornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00373835106026166507noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-41607641817930670312010-05-10T12:49:00.007-04:002010-05-11T09:25:52.872-04:00

John Clark Carving Bear (LOC)Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress Born on this date in 1881, woodcarver John Louis Clarke, aka "Cutapuis." He was born in Highwood, Montana Territory, to Blackfoot parents (one of his grandparents was Scottish). The family was devastated in 1883, when five sons died from scarlet fever; the sixth son, John, age 2, survived with deafness; he did not learn

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-11310745235619089102010-05-01T21:10:00.007-04:002010-05-01T22:52:44.588-04:00

Coming in a bit late for our fifth straight appearance in the Blogging Against Disablism Day swarm. Sunny Saturdays and blogging don't go together in my universe! And this will be briefer than our past entries, too. (Past BADD entries: 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006) Go to Goldfish's complete compendium of links to BADD posts for some much meatier fare."If this activation resulted in a living

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-54282000326556290762010-04-30T09:37:00.004-04:002010-04-30T10:00:55.633-04:00

[visual description: portrait of poet Juhan Liiv as a young man, he appears to be fair-haired with light eyes; his expression is serious] When I was only a little boy A ringing was ringing in my mind. And when I grew olderThe ringing went louder. Now I am almost buried in it,My bosom is ruined under it, My spirit and life are ringing sounds - Too cramped for them are earthly bounds! -

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-70475790825843271572010-04-23T15:19:00.003-04:002010-04-23T15:32:10.531-04:00

Go check out Twxee's River of Jordan blog for the latest edition of the Disability Blog Carnival, built around the theme of balance--figurative and literal! And maybe you'll get excited to write up something for the May edition? It'll be hosted by Terri at Barriers, Bridges, and Books, with the theme "Story." She elaborates on that:Story is the stuff of relationship. Story makes information

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-23991157500121763422010-04-20T09:52:00.002-04:002010-04-20T09:54:43.229-04:00

Click the logo above for more information, then sign up to participate. BADD is now in its fifth year, which you know qualifies as "longstanding" in blog time.

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Disability Blog Carnival #65 will be hosted at Twxee's blog, River of Jordan, next week. I'm come to know that there haven't been a lot of submissions so far, so please consider sending Twxee some links this weekend, especially for recent posts on the subject of "Balance" (her chosen theme). Or leave links here in the comments area.

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Judge Quentin D. Corley (LOC)Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress Another disability history image thanks to the Flickr Commons project. This one is from the Library of Congress's set from the George Grantham Bain Collection, news photos from 1910-1915. Here we see Judge Quentin D. Corley (as the title suggests), driving a very early model car with steering wheel adaptations for his

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Jack and Della Mae Smith in Front of the Beer Joint He Operates in Rhodell, West Virginia, near Beckley 06/1974Originally uploaded by The U.S. National Archives The Flickr Commons project continues to include images from the history of disability. In this 1974 color photo from the US National Archives, we see Jack Smith with his wife, seated under an "RC" sign. Jack is in a wheelchair. The

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-57139853048217930802010-03-17T12:54:00.005-04:002010-03-17T13:35:30.707-04:00

Two years ago, I posted about the song "Paddy's Lamentation" for St. Patrick's Day--it's a US Civil War-era song about an Irish immigrant who joins the Union Army and loses a leg in battle. This year, another Irish ballad about a disabled veteran--and his mother."Mrs. McGrath" (aka "Mrs. McGraw") is at least two hundred years old, but like a lot of ballads it gets adapted to the current

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-68898021952599857572010-03-15T12:57:00.007-04:002010-03-15T13:16:28.897-04:00

[Visual description: family portrait of Australian senator Sue Boyce, who is shown with her three adult children, two women and a man; one of the daughters has Down Syndrome. All are smiling and embracing each other.]"Anytime we allow people with a disability to be treated as special people who should live or learn or work or spend their leisure time in special places, we are shutting people

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-40817528745042692412010-03-06T21:05:00.001-05:002010-03-06T21:05:58.565-05:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } One dimension of a persistent social problem, originally uploaded by Edu-Tourist. Attending the first New Jersey Bike Summit last Saturday, February 27, drove home thee points for me.1. The bicycle community is always

Mike Dornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00373835106026166507noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-38862753096068708382010-03-02T00:03:00.002-05:002010-03-02T00:08:57.739-05:00

Wait, WHAT?Didn't we just post about carnival #63 last week?Indeed we did. But Athena, Ivan, and the Integral are trying something different for the March edition. They're accepting and posting submissions all month long! Go check it out, and watch it unfurl as the month does. Follow the instructions at their blog to send in a link for consideration, and to read more about what they're

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[Image above: Five Women Posed with Skis, Leavenworth WA, 1931; from the University of Washington Digital Collections, uploaded to Flickr Commons 1 February 2010]As I assemble this carnival, there seems to be a big-deal hockey game in progress, somewhere well to the north of my sunny beach town. Historians don't need goalie pads or speedsuits to do their thing, thank goodness, but it might

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-16583101941260864932010-02-26T13:05:00.003-05:002010-02-26T13:28:41.267-05:00

[Visual description: Carnival logo featuring a black-and-white photograph of an old hospital, turrets and such, with the words "Disability Blog Carnival" and "Can't shut us up now" in yellow scrawly print across it.]And it's a WOW of a carnival, at the disability community on dreamwidth.org, on the theme "relationships." There are lots of links, lots of different blogs, and even if you only

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There really are still people out there who believe this hateful nonsense.And they get elected. In the US. In 2010.No amount of photo ops with cute children can change the ugly of this.ETA: Not surprised at all to discover that FWD blog had a post about this, and Liz has a whole bunch of links to reactions on the topic. Joel at NTs are Weird also has a comment.

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-66800049909121867472010-02-16T18:26:00.003-05:002010-02-16T18:44:06.393-05:00

[Visual description: A photograph of swimmer Theresa Goh, wearing a black competition suit and swimcap, sitting in a wheelchair, smiling] "I'm fine with it. I [wouldn't] be swimming or where I am today if I weren't disabled."--Theresa GohA sports birthday today--and a summer sport, in case you've had quite enough snow and ice by now, on TV or out the window (or both). Singapore's Theresa Goh Rui

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-34625808294436076202010-02-13T13:28:00.004-05:002010-02-13T14:15:23.388-05:00

[Image description: black-and-white photo of Isaac Woodard, seated, wearing a uniform and large round sunglasses. A woman is standing next to the chair, with her arm behind Woodard.]What does it cost to be a Negro? In Aiken, South Carolina it cost a man his eyes. --Orson Welles, in a September 1946 radio broadastOn this date in 1946, Isaac Woodard (1919-1992) was on a long bus ride from Georgia

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-30125599461530895502010-02-09T11:44:00.003-05:002010-02-09T11:52:50.229-05:00

Blind SingerOriginally uploaded by Smithsonian Institution [Visual description: An art print depicting two stylized figures, male and female, with dark skin; the man's eyes are closed, the woman's are open; the man holds a tambourine and the woman a guitar; both are dressed in the style of the 1930s, but the colors of their clothing are unusually bright]The Smithsonian's latest batch of uploads

Penny L. Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-77599142933860855022010-02-01T22:41:00.003-05:002010-02-01T22:44:04.084-05:00

The hits keep on coming:Disabling Issues in the Study of the Hebrew BibleJeremy Schipper, Assistant Professor, Department of ReligionThursday, February 412:30-1:50 p.m.Center for the Humanities (CHAT) Lounge, 10th Floor, Gladfelter HallInformed by Disability Studies, this talk examines a variety of methodological issues that should influence the study of disability in the Hebrew Bible and other

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