Location: Centre for Creative Collaboration.Date(s)21/03/2013 (11:00-17:45).

Description:Part of Royal Holloway’s Trauma, Fiction, History Series, jointly sponsored by the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures and the Humanities and Arts Research Centre, Royal Holloway

Thursday March 21st, 2013 
Centre for Creative Collaboration (c4cc) 
16 Acton Street
London WC1X 9NG

Programme

11-11:15 Registration and Coffee

11:15-1:15pm Session One

Whose Disability? Challenging Stereotypical Representations of Epilepsy
Maria Vaccarella (King’s College London)

Sur mes lèvres, Deafness, Embodiment: Towards a Film Phenomenology of a Differently Ordered Sensorium
Jenny Chamarette (Queen Mary, University of London)

Beyond the ‘Narrative of Overcoming’: Representations of Disability in Contemporary French Culture.
Sam Haigh (University of Warwick)

‘Freaks!’ Hurler Syndrome and other disabilities in Claire Daudin’s Le Sourire
Brian Sudlow (Aston University)

1:15-2pm: Lunch

2-3:30: Session Two

Ana García-Siñeriz, Esas mujeres rubias (2010): disability, gender, and the medical establishment
Abigail Lee Six (Royal Holloway, University of London)

The pain of itching
Naomi Segal (Birkbeck College, London)

‘Raw data’: autistic aloneness and the category of insight in Elle s’appelle Sabine
Vivienne Orchard (University of Southampton)

3:30-4: Tea

4-5:30 Session Three

Telling, not seeing: blindness and travel writing
Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool)

On not being deaf to the blind
Kate Tunstall (Worcester College, Oxford)

Disability and Sexuality: the poetry of Denis Sanguin de Saint-Pavin (1595-1670)
Nick Hammond (University of Cambridge)

5:30 Closing Remarks and Plans for Next Stages

Attendance at the study day is free and includes lunch and refreshments. Anyone interested in attending should contact the organiser, Dr Hannah Thompson to register for catering purposes: (Hannah.Thompson@rhul.ac.uk|)

The Centre for Creative Collaboration is a neutral collaborative space near King’s Cross. We are using this space to think about the interdisciplinary and collaborative potential of the Disability and Culture project. This workshop is the first step in a project which we hope will expand into a dialogue not only between academics, but also with artistis, medical professionals, charities, activists and community groups.

Directions to c4cc can be found here: http://www.creativecollaboration.org.uk/where.php|