Exploring & Expanding Disability Studies Scholarship
Presentations
Elizabeth Wheeler. Intense, Extravagant, and Problematic: Seizing Space in Disability Narratives. Society for Disability Studies Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA, June 2011.
Audrey Medina. Metaphors and Microaggressions Toward Persons with Disabilities--How Our Conceptual System is Grounded in and Partially Structured by an Able-Bodied Experience. Pacific Rim International Conference on Disabilities Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, April 2011.
Heidi von Ravensberg. Reasonable Accommodations for Post Secondary Students with Disabilities Under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Project EXCEL (Expanding Cultural Awareness of Exceptional Learners) Summer Institute, Christopher Murray & Hilary Gerdes, Directors, University of Oregon, June 2010.
Panel-Speaker Workshop on Disability Culture and Access. Presented by the AccessABILITY Student Union as part of the beyond patriarchy conference, University of Oregon. May 2010.
Phaedra Livingstone. (Exhibitor). Out From Under: Disability, History and Things to Remember. Displayed at the Disability History Exhibition at the Cultural Olympiad, Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 2010. There is also an associated book "Re-Presenting Disability: Activism and Agency in the Museum" and virtual exhibition site.
Heidi von Ravensberg. The Blind Community. Panelist, The Community Conversations Series, Co-Produced by The Oregon Think Tank and The Oregon Brain Trust, Co-sponsored by the Robert D. Clark Honors College, the Oregon Humanities Center, Undergraduate Studies, the UO Libraries, and University Housing. University of Oregon, November 2009.
Elizabeth Wheeler. Masculinity at the Orthopedic Preschool. Society for Disability Studies Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ, June 2009.
Heidi von Ravensberg. Reasonable Accommodations for Post Secondary Students with Disabilities Under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Project EXCEL (Expanding Cultural Awareness of Exceptional Learners) Summer Institute, Christopher Murray & Hilary Gerdes, Directors, University of Oregon, June 2009.
Chuck Baird: The Expression of Deaf Culture Through Art. A UO event sponsored by Disability Services, University of Oregon, April 2009.
Heidi von Ravensberg. Making Workplaces Accessible: Employment Accommodations and Strategies for Individuals Who are Blind or Visually Impaired. Panelist, Mobility International, USA professional program on International Leadership, Employment and Disability (I-LEAD), University of Oregon. March 2009.
Elizabeth Wheeler. Disability Studies and the Visibility of Whiteness: Helen Keller and Harriet McBryde Johnson. Society for Disability Studies Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, June 2007.
Elizabeth Wheeler. Intersections of Disability, Gender, and Race. Panel Respondent, Future of Minority Studies National Conference: Cultivating Diversity, University of Oregon, November 9-11, 2006.
Elizabeth Wheeler. Panel Organizer, Performing Both and Between--Theorizing Bodies on the Hyphen. American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Oakland, CA, October 13, 2006.
Elizabeth Wheeler. Panel Organizer, As Bodies Collide: Ecocriticism Meets Disability Studies. Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) conference, University of Oregon, June 2005.
Elizabeth Wheeler. Disabled Bodies in the Landscape. ASLE conference, June 2005. Also given at Society for Disability Studies Annual Meeting, June 2005, San Francisco State University.
Papers
Elizabeth Wheeler. Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Disability Studies and the Visibility of Whiteness. Paper for American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Oakland, CA, October 13, 2006.
The UO Disability Studies Initiative congradulates Russ Meeuf on his award-winning Disability Studies research. Russ is the recipient of the 2006 Sarah Harkness Kirby Award for "John Wayne as 'Supercrip': Disability, Masculinity, and Demobilization in The Wings of Eagles" for Prof. Elizabeth Wheeler's ENG 615: Disability Studies Graduate Seminar.
Conferences
Society for Disability Studies Annual Conference
Pacific Rim International Conference on Disabilities
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