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<div>‘Disability Conversations’ presents</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">'Disability Culture Pedagogy'</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">A seminar with Professor Petra Kuppers (Michigan)</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Friday 28 March 2014, 1.00-2.30pm</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);">Seminar Room (S226), Level 2, Woolley Building (A20), Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus, entry off Manning Road</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">About the seminar:</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">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. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Bio: </span><br style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">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 (</span><a href="http://www.olimpias.org/" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">www.olimpias.org</a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">). </span></div>
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<div>Please rsvp at: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/disability-culture-pedagogy-professor-petra-kuppers-tickets-10969009603</div>
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<div>‘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@sydney.edu.au</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;">Gerard Goggin<br>
ARC Future Fellow</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;">Professor of Media and Communications<br>
Department of Media and Communications<br>
University of Sydney <br>
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e: <a href="applewebdata://58CAECF0-6F6E-47A3-9980-953EE0F9094E/gerard.goggin@sydney.edu.au" style="color: purple;">gerard.goggin@sydney.edu.au</a><br>
p: +61 2 9114 1218 <br>
m: +61 428 66 88 24<br>
w: <a href="http://sydney.edu.au/arts/media_communications/staff/gerard_goggin.shtml" style="color: purple;">http://sydney.edu.au/arts/media_communications/staff/gerard_goggin.shtml</a></span></div>
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