The Imperfect Historian - Disability Histories in Europe

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The Imperfect Historian - Disability Histories in Europe

Veranstalter
Dr. Sebastian Barsch, Department of History, University of Cologne
Veranstaltungsort
Universität zu Köln, Hörsaal VIIa
Ort
Köln
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
21.08.2012 - 22.08.2012
Deadline
15.08.2012
Website
http://geschdid.uni-koeln.de/conference/
Von
Barsch, Sebastian

In 2001 Paul Longmore and Laury Umanski published their timely and pioneering reader New disability history: American perspectives. Since then many scholars have devoted articles, chapters in books and monographs to the history of disability. Despite the enormous amount of publications it seems that the methodological reflection with regard to the histories written does not follow that same trend. The main purpose of the conference is to deepen the methodological underpinnings of contemporary disability history and to seek for new and refreshing ways of doing disability history. The title of the conference – The imperfect historian: Disability histories in Europe – already makes clear the focus on those disability histories which can be linked to the European continent. This decision has been formed mainly by two considerations. First of all, although a lot has been achieved on the continent with regard to disability history, the American scene still seems to define what script is to be followed while doing disability history. Secondly, many of the recent developments in general historiography and disability theory coming from the mainland seem to possess great potential for those scholars who try to seek a way out of the dominant theoretical framework for speaking and thinking about disability (theory). Whereas those disability historians working in the American context in particular and the Anglo-Saxon world in general indeed have been largely informed by the social model, it seems that many historians interested in disability related issues and working on the continent also were additionally inspired by other epistemological and theoretical traditions. This conference brings together all these different theoretical frameworks to discuss issues of research practise.

Programm

Preliminary Programme

21st August

11.30 Introduction and welcome

12.30 Panel 1

Patrick Schmidt – Anecdotes, allegories and obvious examples: Constructing disability through narratives in seventeenth- and eighteenth periodicals

Bianca Frohne/ Klaus Horn –The weak, the mad and the holy? Some propositions on studying pre-modern disability

Yann Cantin – Who are the deafs of the Belle Epoque? A presentation of a deaf community

14.30 Break

15.00 Panel 2
Annemieke van Drenth – Care and curiosity: Ida frye and the discovery of autism in the 1930s in the Netherlands

Maria Romeiras –Panoptical discourses and self-surveillance on blind
school projects

David Leenen – Governing the cripple(s)

17.00 Panel 3
Myriam Winance – Disability and reparation

Daniel Blackie – Disability, dependency, and the household economy of care in the early United States

18.30 Keynote: Anne Waldschmidt (requested)

20.00 Dinner
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22nd August

9.00 Panel 4
Gaby Admon Rick – Persons as numbers: Deciphering disabled bodies in British Mandate Palestine and Israël, 1930-1956

Jose Martinez-Perez & Mercedes Del Cura Gonzales - Work injuries, scientific management and the production of disabled bodies in Spain, 1920-1936

Nausica Zaballos – Constructing Disability at Camarillo Mental Hospital (1948-1996)

11.00 Cultural Programme/ Lunch

14.00 Panel 5
Gildas Brégain – The radicalization of the Disability Rights Movements (1968-1981). A entangled history (Argentina, Brazil, Spain)

Jitka Sinecka - Peeping over the wall: Communism, Goffman and the deinstitutionalization of people with autism in the Czech Republic

Paul van Trigt – The imperfection of narrative: Sensory history and the inclusion of blind people in Dutch society in the twentieth Century

16.00 Panel 6
Emmanuel Nathan – Cultural Theory of Disability

Anna Piotrowska - Disability history and musicology

17.30 Open discussion

18.15 End

Kontakt

Sebastian Barsch

Universität zu Köln, Historisches Institut, Didaktik der Geschichte
Gronewaldstr. 2, 50931 Köln
0221 - 470 1956

s.barsch@uni-koeln.de

http://geschdid.uni-koeln.de/conference/