PUBLIC LECTURE: "How Do We Get All These Disabilities in Here?': Disability Film Festivals as New Collective Spaces."

Please join

Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell, Filmmakers and Disability theorists

For a film screening and discussion of their work

The talk will involve screening three international short films: Pierre Levacher's "Sangue Froid/Cold Blood" (France), Oriana Bolden's "goodnight, liberation" (USA), and Martin Taylor's "Berocca" (UK). If we have time we'll end with a showing of our new film entitled: "Self Preservation: The Art of Riva Lehrer."

At The University of Western Australia

Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell are visiting Perth to participate in the Perth Social Forum at the Fremantle Town Hall 18-20 March.

Sharon Snyder is the co-editor of a new book, Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities (PMLA, 2002), co-author of Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse (2001), and co-editor of the first edited collection on disability studies in the humanities: The Body and Physical Difference: Discourses of Disability (1997). In 2002 Dr. Snyder was a visiting faculty at the Universidad de Costa Rica. Her documentary video projects, as the director of Brace Yourselves Productions, include Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back, the Grand Prize winner of Rehabilitation International Film Festival (Auckland, N.Z., 1996), and Best Film of the Festival, International Disability Film Festival (Moscow, 2002), and A World Without Bodies, the recipient of CDT's Superfest Merit Award in 2003. She is a series editor for Corporealities: Discourses of Disability published by the University of Michigan Press. Her articles appear in Journal of the Medical Humanities, Disability and Society, Public Culture: Discourses of the Global Modern, Patterns of Prejudice, The Michigan Quarterly Review, and Disability Studies Quarterly. She is a founding member of the Modern Language Association’s Committee on Disability Issues, and a member of the board of the Society for Disability Studies She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

David T. Mitchell is Associate Professor of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois – Chicago. His books include Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse (co-authored with Sharon L. Snyder), the first edited collection on disability studies in the humanities, The Body and Physical Difference: Discourses of Disability, and a new book project, The Cultural Locations of Disability. He is also the director of disability documentaries including World Without Bodies (2002) and Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back, Grand Prize Winner of Rehabilitation International’s Film Festival in Aukland, New Zealand. His essays on disability studies, disability criticism, and cultural studies have appeared in numerous journals. He is former president of the Society for Disability Studies and a founding member and chair of the Modern Language Association’s Committee on Disability Issues and Disability Studies Discussion Group.

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