Disability and the Law Conference - Columbus

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Disability, Narrative and the Law February 16-17, 2006 Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

________________________________________________________________________What is the role of personal narrative in effectively advancing the cause of disability rights, whether in individual cases or in arenas of legislation and policy making? Keynote address: Hon. Tony Coelho, Chairman of the Board, The Epilepsy Foundation, and former Member, U.S. House of Representatives

This unique public interdisciplinary conference will draw together researchers from law and the humanities to explore how themes of autonomy and dependency, “normal†and “abnormal,†innocence and fault, sameness and difference all play out in legal discussions about disability and in the self-understanding of persons with disabilities. We will also feature outstanding practitioners to analyze how personal experience narratives concerned with disability bear on actual legal practice, how legal arguments get translated back into individuals’ accounts of being disabled, and how tensions may arise between the highly individualized, personal experience of disability and the necessity of developing a pragmatic legal definition of disability under relevant statutory and case law. The conference is being organized collaboratively by the Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies at the Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University Department of English, the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, and the Office of the ADA Coordinator and supported by grants from the Ohio Statewide Independent Living Council, and the Association on Higher Education And Disability.

Through the generosity of our sponsors admission to the conference will be free For more information or to request accommodations contact: Sol Bermann, J.D.Associate Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy StudiesMoritz College of Law - The Ohio State Universitybermann.1@..., 614-688-4192http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/cilps/index.html

Disability, Narrative and the Law

February 16-17, 2005

Schedule

Thursday Evening Dinner: Disability Narrative and Creative Nonfiction – Readings

Convenor: Steve Kuusisto

Chloë G. K. Atkins, Assistant Professor of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary

Kuusisto, Assistant Professor of English, The Ohio State University

Ruth O’Brien, Professor of Government, Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York

Achim Nowak, author of Power Speaking: The Art of the Exceptional Public Speaker

Friday

9-10:15 Session 1: The Legal Practice of Narrative

Convenors: Ruth O’Brien and Ruth Colker

D. Dinerstein, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law

, Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law10:30-Noon Session 2: How Law Mediates Between Personal and Cultural Narratives

Convenors: Amy Shuman and Brueggemann

Mark Willis, Public Relations and Medical Research, State University; author of memoir and essays related to medical ethics, disability, etc.)

G. Couser, Hofstra University (autobiography scholar, author of 2 books and many articles about disability autobiography and ethics)

12-1:30 Lunch with keynote speaker

Convenor: Shane

Hon. Tony Coelho, Chairman of the Board, The Epilepsy Foundation, and former Member, U.S. House of Representatives

1:45 - 3:15 Session 3: Narrative and Argument

Convenors: Jim Phelan and Herman

Ellen Barton, Professor of English, Wayne State University

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Women's Studies, Emory

Liz Emmens, Assistant Professor of Law, Columbia University School of Law

3:30-5 Session 4: Disability as a Human Phenomenon and as a Legal Category

Convenor: Shane

Munger, Professor of Law, New York Law School

M. Engel, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Buffalo Law School

Martha A. Fineman, Woodruff Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law