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URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/archive-theory-2/
SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Archive and Theory: The Future of Anglo-American Early M
 odern Disability Studies [Day 2]
DESCRIPTION:This event is postponed\, as we continue to monitor the COVID-1
 9 situation daily and follow the public gathering guidelines set by UCLA\,
  our local government officials\, and the CDC. Please check our website fo
 r future updates.\n\n\n\n–conference organized by by Helen Deutsch (UCLA
 )\, Jason Farr (Marquette University)\, Paul Kelleher (Emory University)\,
  and Jared Richman (Colorado College)\n\nCo-sponsored by UCLA’s Dean of 
 Humanities\, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, Undergraduate E
 ducation Initiatives-Disability Studies\, Department of English\, Departme
 nt of History\, and Joyce Appleby Chair of America in the World Chair Fund
 \n\nOver the last two decades\, the cultural and historical study of disab
 ility has emerged as a vital field of inquiry\, transforming how we unders
 tand various forms of corporeal and cognitive difference in the early mode
 rn period. In turn\, the increasing scholarly focus on earlier periods has
  pressing implications for our constructions of disability in the present.
  This conference aims to foster two overlapping and mutually illuminating 
 conversations: one about the role that theory plays in how we represent an
 d interpret archival sources\, and another about how the archive invites u
 s to critique the historical assumptions and (at times) limitations of the
 oretical inquiry. Among the many questions this conference will raise\, we
  anticipate that our participants will ask: How do we define “archive\,
 ” and how is archival knowledge organized? What theoretical approaches w
 ill allow us to move forward in our uncovering of disabled pasts? How does
  the historical distance embodied by the archive inspire us to further div
 ersify and complicate our theoretical models and strategies? How can susta
 ined scholarly attention to archives of disability open up new possibiliti
 es for conversation between the fields of disability studies and medical h
 umanities\, whose relationship was aptly termed that of “frenemies” at
  an MLA panel some years ago? In short\, how does our simultaneous embrace
  of the archive and theory promise to open up new horizons both for the st
 udy of early modern disability and for disability studies?\n\nSpeakers\nSa
 ri Altschuler\, Northeastern University\nCornelia H. Dayton\, University o
 f Connecticut\nD. Christopher Gabbard\, University of North Florida\nRosem
 arie Garland-Thomson\, Emory University\nNancy J. Hirschmann\, University 
 of Pennsylvania\nEssaka Joshua\, University of Notre Dame\nTravis Chi Wing
  Lau\, University of Texas at Austin\nRachael C. Lee\, University of Calif
 ornia\, Los Angeles\nGenevieve Love\, Colorado College\nEmily B. Stanback\
 , University of Southern Mississippi\nDavid M. Turner\, Swansea University
 \nJarred Wiehe\, Texas A&amp\;M University\, Corpus Christi\nKatherine Sch
 aap Williams\, University of Toronto\n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\nThere is no cha
 rge for this event. Advance booking is requested.
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