[csaa-forum] 'Disability Culture Pedagogy'/Petra Kuppers/USyd/Fri 28 March, 1pm

[Gerard Goggin]

‘Disability Conversations’ presents

'Disability Culture Pedagogy'
A seminar with Professor Petra Kuppers (Michigan)

Friday 28 March 2014, 1.00-2.30pm
Seminar Room (S226), Level 2, Woolley Building (A20), Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus, entry off Manning Road

About the seminar:

In this seminar, Petra will share material from her forthcoming study guide to undergraduates, Studying Disability Arts and Culture: An Introduction (Palgrave, forthcoming 2015). We can talk together about access, politics, embodied exercises and arts-based teaching strategies.

Bio:
Petra Kuppers is a disability culture activist, a community performance artist, and Professor of English, Women’s Studies, Art and Design and Theatre at the University of Michigan. Her books include Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge(Routledge, 2003), The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performance and Contemporary Art(Minnesota, 2007), Community Performance: An Introduction (Routledge, 2007) andDisability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape(Palgrave, 2011). She leads The Olimpias, a performance research collective (www.olimpias.org<http://www.olimpias.org/>).

Please rsvp at: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/disability-culture-pedagogy-professor-petra-kuppers-tickets-10969009603

‘Disability Conversations’ is a new initiative of scholars in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney. ‘Disability Conversations’ is an experiment to provide a space for new ways of conceiving, thinking about, enacting, experiencing, researching, teaching, writing about, and collaborating around disability. For more information, contact Professor Gerard Goggin: gerard.goggin at sydney.edu.au

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Gerard Goggin
ARC Future Fellow
Professor of Media and Communications
Department of Media and Communications
University of Sydney

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