Conference Schedule

 

Thursday, March 22
9:20 Breakfast
9:40 Opening Remarks
10:00 Panel 1: Education
“The Influence of the ADHD Label on Teacher’s Expectations of Academic Achievement”
Ashley N. Metzger, UC Merced
“Community Health Contexts and Special-needs Students: Geographic Inequality and the Use of Exclusionary Discipline in the Boston Metropolitan Area”
Jenny LaFleur and Robbie Dembo, Brandeis University
“Social development of children with learning disabilities: an examination of the influence of parents, teachers, and cultural norms”
Xiao Yang Fang, University of Calgary
11:20 Panel 2: Intersectionality
“The Deserving Pain?: Determining Legitimacy of Opioid Use in Sickle Cell Patients”
Alex Brewer, University of Chicago
“Domestic Violence, Child Custody and Gendered Mental Illness in Family Courts: A Case Study of Child Custody Outcomes in Four States”
Meghan O’Neil, University of Michigan
“Disrupting Dis/abilization: An Exploration of Research Methods and Practices to Combat Educational Inequities for Racial, Ethnic, and Ability Minority Students”
Sara Petit-McClure & Chelsea Mixon, Syracuse University
“Towards a Neuroqueer Curriculum: Queer Children, Deviant Bodies and the ‘Helping Professions'”
Robin Roscigno, Rutgers University
1:00 Lunch and Methodology Round table
3:30 Panel 3: Theoretical Models of Disability
“Decoupling impairment and disability, realigning the body with identity and human experience”
Katherine Kinkopf, UC Berkeley
“Peer-Run Autistic Social and Support Groups: A Challenge to the Binary Model of Disability”
Cara Ryan Idriss, NYU
“Models of Disability and Lived Experience: Case Study of Families with Children with Developmental Disabilities in Moscow, Russia”
Asya Tsaturyan, Columbia University
5:00 Movie and Dinner
Keep Rollin’ , Directed by Stefan Hillebrand and Oliver Paulus

 

Friday, March 23
8:30 Breakfast
9:00 Panel 4: Measurement
“The Disabling Process: Chronic Pain and the Socio-institutional Dynamics of Uncertainty”
Lindsay Berkowitz, UC Berkeley
“Bodies of Integration: Investigating Disability and Impairment through Female Infertility”
AJ Jones, Emory University
“From Threat to Promise: The Rise of Social Intelligence in the Measurement of Mental Deficiency”
Adrianna Bagnall Munson, Columbia University
10:45 Panel 5:  Deservingness and the Welfare State
“The Cost of Disability Rights: Public Suspicion and the Disability Con”
Doron Dorfman, Stanford University
“Access to transportation and employment among individuals with disabilities in 2010-2016”
Ms. Galyna Korniyenko, Ohio State
“Examining Gaps in Refugee Camps for Refugees with Disabilities in the Context of Theoretical Frameworks of the Camp and Campzenship: Implications and Recommendations”
Max Wei En Soh, Columbia University
“From Stigmatizing Marks to Media of Exchange: Disability and the the Allocation of Housing Vouchers”
Rebecca Johnson, Princeton University
12:15 Lunch
1:30 Keynote
“Attaining Equality and Inclusion in a Neoliberal Society”
Dr. Allison C. Carey, Professor of Sociology and Director of Disability Studies, Shippensburg University
2:30 Panel 6: Carework
“Longitudinal Relationships between Productive Activities and Cognitive Impairment among Older Adults: Focusing on Gender Differences”
Yeonjung (Jane) Lee, Boston University
“The association between activity limitation, neurocognitive disorders, and long-term care (LTC) admissions among Medicare beneficiaries”
Rebecca Kim, University of Pennsylvania
“Mapping the Margins of the Disability Experience: Examining Episodic Disability Using a Disability Legal Studies Framework”
Odelia Bay, York University
“Normative aging: the production of “home” and “independence” in transitional elder care”
Guillermina Altomonte, The New School
4:15 Panel 7: In/visibility
“Injured and Exposed: How Markers of Injury Reshape Patterns of Engagement Among Strangers”
Allison Daminger, Harvard University
“Aesthetics and Impairment in the Image Society”
Ella Hillstrom, The New School
“In the Image of God: Touch and Vision in Disability Care in Uganda”
Tyler Zoanni, NYU
5:30 Closing Remarks