Disability Studies Sessions and Papers at the 2013 MLA Convention

Thursday, 3 January

SESSIONS

• 64. Global Health and World Literature
  1:45–3:00 p.m., 313, Hynes
• 74. Interiorities of Disability
  1:45–3:00 p.m., Hampton, Sheraton
• 138. Madness in Black Women's Diasporic Novels and the Aesthetics of Resistance
  5:15–6:30 p.m., 313, Hynes
• 139. On Cognitive Approaches to Literature, Disability Studies, and Being Wrong
  5:15–6:30 p.m., Fairfax A, Sheraton
• 140. Illness and Disability in Asian American Literature
  5:15–6:30 p.m., Hampton, Sheraton

INDIVIDUAL PAPER

• 145. Memory and Modes of Knowledge in Old Norse–Icelandic
  5:15–6:30 p.m., 203, Hynes
  

  1. "'. . . Við It Fyrsta Hǫgg': Some Thoughts on the Episode of Ámundi the Blind in Brennu-Njáls Saga," Richard L. Harris, Univ. of Saskatchewan




Friday, 4 January

SESSIONS

• 192. Purges, Plagues, and Body Snatchers: Religion and Medicine in Colonial and Early National America
  8:30–9:45 a.m., Back Bay B, Sheraton
• 210. Disability Studies in the Italian Context
  8:30–9:45 a.m., 205, Hynes
• 236. Representations of Cultural Resistance: Deafness and Power
  10:15–11:30 a.m., Hampton, Sheraton
• 250. "A Little World Made Cunningly": Generative Bodies and Early Modern Natural Philosophy
  10:15–11:30 a.m., Jefferson, Sheraton
• 268. Disability Discourses: Bodily Selves and the Embodiment of Deviance
  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Hampton, Sheraton
• 273. The Past, Present, and Future of Cognitive Literary Studies
  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Liberty C, Sheraton
• 306. Disability Studies, the MLA, and the AAUP Report "Accommodating Faculty Members Who Have Disabilities"
  1:45–3:00 p.m., Hampton, Sheraton
• 340. Flying Words Project: A Creative Conversation
  3:30–4:45 p.m., Back Bay B, Sheraton
• 367. The Other Side of Psychoanalysis
  3:30–4:45 p.m., Beacon E, Sheraton
• 382. Enabling Access: Gower and Premodern Disability Studies
  5:15–6:30 p.m., Hampton, Sheraton

INDIVIDUAL PAPER

• 401. Digital Archives and Their Margins
  5:15–6:30 p.m., Berkeley, Sheraton
  

  3. "Universal Design and Disability in the Digital Archive," Karen Bourrier, Univ. of Western Ontario




Saturday, 5 January

SESSIONS

• 441. Disability in Jane Eyre: The Madwoman and the Blindman
  8:30–9:45 a.m., Hampton, Sheraton
• 483. Disability Studies Methodologies
  10:15–11:30 a.m., Hampton, Sheraton
• 510. Disabled Bodies and African American Literature, 1859–1946
  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Hampton, Sheraton
• 570. Avenues of Access: The State of Disability Studies
  1:45–3:00 p.m., Republic Ballroom, Sheraton
• 583. Intellectual and Cognitive Disability Studies
  3:30–4:45 p.m., Beacon F, Sheraton
• 607. The European Network of Aging Studies: Open Access and Communication Supporting Scholarship
  3:30–4:45 p.m., Liberty A, Sheraton
• 631. Literary Theory and American Sign Language Literature
  5:15–6:30 p.m., Hampton, Sheraton

INDIVIDUAL PAPERS

• 604. Natural and Moral Chaos in Colonial Latin America
  3:30–4:45 p.m., 301, Hynes
  

  4. "Peralta Barnuevo's Desvíos de la naturaleza: Monstrous Births and Natural Catastrophes in Vice-Royal Peru," Victor Manuel Pueyo Zoco, Temple Univ., Philadelphia
  

• 629. Nature, Culture, and Gender in Hawthorne's Work
  5:15–6:30 p.m., Back Bay A, Sheraton
  

  2. "Sick Buildings and Unhealthy Interiors: The House of the Seven Gables and the Medicalization of Architecture in Mid-Century America," Maura D'Amore, Saint Michael's Coll.




Sunday, 6 January

SESSIONS

• 696. Disability and the Coloniality of Power
  10:15–11:30 a.m., Hampton, Sheraton
• 731. What Is Post-AIDS Literature?
  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Back Bay A, Sheraton
• 732. Race and Cultures of Mobility
  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Beacon H, Sheraton
• 746. Finding a Nondystopian Future: A Literary and Scientific Exchange
  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Dalton, Sheraton

INDIVIDUAL PAPER

• 691. Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention
  8:30–9:45 a.m., Liberty C, Sheraton
  

  2. "Memory, Attention, and the Shape of a Sentence: Ethics and Aesthetics in ADHD (Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) and Language Production," Suzanne Bailey, Trent Univ.