Call for Proposals for a panel at the Society for Literature and
Science 18th Annual Conference, Durham, North Carolina, October 14th-
17th, 2004
Visible Fantasies: The (In)Visible, Disability, and Knowledge
How can (in)visible differences become active in identity politics?
People experiencing migraines, people living with pain or cancer,
mental health system survivors – these groups know about the problems
communicating aspects of their experiences to others – ‘it’s all in the
head’ characterizes many social reactions to invisible conditions. In a
related way, people living with spina bifida, wheelchair users, people
with facial differences and other disabled people find themselves too
visible: their visible difference completely dominates their social
position, and the reading of their lives by others.
This panel will ask how these problems of (in)visibility present
themselves at the meeting points of the arts and medical knowledge
systems. How do art interventions mediate these knowledge problems? And
how do people working within the medical system react to and interact
with these issues?
Please send proposals (300 words) and short CVs by April 25th to the
panel organisers:
Ann Millett, millett@email.unc.edu
Petra Kuppers, pkuppers@bryant.edu
Petra Kuppers
Asst. Professor of Performance Studies
English and Cultural Studies Department
Bryant College
1150 Douglas Pike
Smithfield
Rhode Island 02917
USA
Artistic Director of The Olimpias Performance Research Projects
www.olimpias.net
office: 401 232 6455
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