All events will be held in the Martin E. Segal Theatre and via Zoom.

Registration
9:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.

Welcoming Remarks
10:15 am to 10:30 am

Roundtable: Crip Craft and Kinships across the Disciplines
10:30 am to 12 p.m.
(Moderated by Andrew Marcum) Atara Ellenberg, Morgan Goode, Alyssa Hanley, Weldon Lam, Lindsay Muscato, Keith Rosenthal

Lunch Break
12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
For on-campus dining options, visit Location/Logistics.

Roundtable: Disability & Life Writing: Speaking of, Speaking from, Speaking for
1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
(Moderated by Julia Miele Rodas) Macael Bowles, JD Davids, Sonia Gonzalez, Lisa Napoli, Mathew Rodriguez

Six writers speak to the significance of disability in their ongoing memoir projects, as a central feature, as a glittering thread, as an inescapable but elusive presence in their written lives. Participants will alternately read short fragments from their work-in-progress and engage one another in conversation around the ways we choose to unfold or contain disability in our own life writing, exploring experiences of psychiatric disability and addiction, parent-child disability relationships, interpersonal violence, sexual celebration, and, persistently, questions of representational ethics.

Break
2:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Connecting Dots: Joshua Miele in conversation with Georgina Kleege
3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Joshua Miele, blind scientist, designer, activist, and MacArthur Award winner talks with celebrated blind life writer Georgina Kleege about Dr. Miele’s newly released memoir, Connecting Dots: A Blind Life. The two will discuss highlights from the book, the challenges of composing disability for a mainstream audience, and how Dr. Miele navigated the process of writing collaboratively.