Session Details

Tuesday, 28 December

150. Get Down: Disability, Depression, and Difference

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 401–403, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Disability Studies

Presiding: Tammy Elizabeth Berberi, Univ. of Minnesota, Morris

1. “Depression: The Melancholia of History,” Petra Kuppers, Bryant Univ.

2. “Embodied Dissoi Logoi: Mental Health Difference as Dialectic,” Marian E. Lupo, Ohio State Univ., Columbus

3. “Down and Out: Transference, Depression, and the Teaching Self,” Julia Knowlton De Pree, Agnes Scott Coll.

4. “Just Get Up: Antidepression Arguments in Contemporary Representations of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Other Controversial Disabilities,” Anna Mollow, Univ. of California, Berkeley

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