Reading Sessions
35th Meeting
17thMarch 2018
Room 221, Seminar Room, Dept of Linguistics, DU
Elizabeth Barnes (2016), The Minority Body, OUP. [Preface, Introduction]
36th Meeting
14th April 2018
Staff Room 1, Dept. of Philosophy, DU
Elizabeth Barnes (2016), The Minority Body, OUP. [Chapter 1]
37th Meeting
12th May 2018
Room 221, Seminar Room, Dept of Linguistics, DU
Liz Crow (1996) “Including All of Our Lives: Reviewing the Social Model of Disabilty”, in Morris, Jenny (ed.) (1996) Encounters with Strangers: Feminism and Disability, Women's
Press, London
38th Meeting
11thAugust 2018
Staff Room 1, Dept. of Philosophy, DU
C.J. Gaskin et al (2012), “Physical activity in the life of a woman with cerebral palsy: Physiotherapy, social exclusion, competence, and intimacy”, Disability & Society27.2:205-218.
39th Meeting
20thOctober 2018
Staff Room 1, Dept. of Philosophy, DU
Sameer Chaturvedi (2018),”Journey so far: My life with an impairment”, in Ghai, Anita (ed.), Disability in South Asia, Sage.
40th Meeting
18thNovember 2018
Staff Room 1, Dept. of Philosophy, DU
Santosh Kumar (2018), “Jataka katha goes on”, in Ghai, Anita (ed.), Disability in South Asia, Sage.
41st Meeting
27thJanuary 2019
Staff Room 1, Dept. of Philosophy, DU
Olav Tangevald-Pederson and Rob Bongaardt (2016), “Towards a tinkering participatory research method in mental health”, Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 19.1:7-17.
42nd Meeting
9thFebruary 2019
Staff Room 1, Dept. of Philosophy, DU
1. Carol Thomas (1997), “The baby and the bathwater: disabled women and motherhood in social context”, in Sociology of Health & Illness 19.5 (1997): 622-643.
2. Anita Lappeteläinen, Eija Sevón & Tanja Vehkakoski (2017), “Forbidden option or planned decision? Physically disabled women’s narratives on the choice of motherhood”, in Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 19.2 (2017), 140–150.
43rd Meeting
10th March, 2019 (Sunday)
Staff Room 1, Dept. of Philosophy, DU
Reading(s):
“conversation between two friends about feminism and disability” by berenice fisher and Roberta galler, in Off Our Backs, 11.5, women with disabilities (May 1981), pp. 14-15.
“Postmodernism, feminism and disability” by Barbara Fawcett in Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 1996: 5: 259-267.
44th Meeting
April 20, 2019 (Saturday)
Staff Room 1, Dept. of Philosophy, DU
Reading:
"Dis/entangling critical disability studies" by Dan Godley (Disability and Society, 2012, 28:5, 631-644)
45th Meeting
4th May 2019 (Saturday) 5:30 p.m.
Staff Room 1, Dept. of Philosophy, DU
Reading:
"What is so critical about Critical Disability Studies?" by Helen Meekosha & Russell Shuttleworth (Australian Journal of Human Rights, 15:1, 47-75, DOI:10.1080/1323238X.2009.11910861
46th meeting
April 22, 2020 (Wednesday)
On-line at 7:30 p.m.
Reading:
"Provocations for Critical Disability Studies" by Dan Goodley, Rebecca Lawthom, Kirsty Liddiard & Katherine Runswick Cole. ((Disability & Society, 2013, Vol. 34, No. 6, 972–997)
47th Meeting
May 9, 2020 (Saturday)
on-line at 5:30 p.m.
Reading:
"Provocations for Critical Disability Studies" by Dan Goodley, Rebecca Lawthom, Kirsty Liddiard & Katherine Runswick Cole. ((Disability & Society, 2013, Vol. 34, No. 6, 972–997) [Provocation 2 onwards]
48th Meeting
May 16, 2020 (Saturday)
on-line at 5:45 p.m.
Reading:
"Provocations for Critical Disability Studies" by Dan Goodley, Rebecca Lawthom, Kirsty Liddiard & Katherine Runswick Cole. (Disability & Society, 2013, Vol. 34, No. 6, 972–997) [Provocation 4 onwards]
49th Meeting
May 23, 2020 (Saturday)
on-line at 5:45 p.m.
Reading:
"Hardt and Negri and the Geo-Political Imagination: Empire, Multitude and Critical Disability Studies" by Dan Goodley and Rebecca Lawthom. (Critical Sociology, 2011, 39(3), 369–384) [First two sections] Abstract
50th Meeting (with Dan Goodley)
(to attend, contact sigdsu2012@gmail.com)
June 15th, 2020 (Monday)
on-line at 5:30 p.m.
Reading/ Discussion (with Dan Goodley):
"Dis/entangling critical disability studies" by Dan Godley (Disability and Society, 28:5, 631-644)
"Provocations for Critical Disability Studies" by Dan Goodley, Rebecca Lawthom, Kirsty Liddiard & Katherine Runswick Cole. ((Disability & Society, 2013, Vol. 34, No. 6, 972–997)
"Hardt and Negri and the Geo-Political Imagination: Empire, Multitude and Critical Disability Studies" by Dan Goodley and Rebecca Lawthom. (Critical Sociology, 2011, 39(3), 369–384)
"Posthuman disability studies" by Dan Goodley, Rebecca Lawthom and Katherine Runswick Cole (Subjectivity 2014, Vol. 7, 4, 342–361)
51st Meeting
June 27, 2020 (Saturday)
online at 5:30 p.m.
Reading:
"Precision ableism: a studies in ableism approach to developing histories of disability and abledment" by Fiona Kumari Campbell (Rethinking HIstory, 2019, Vol. 23, No. 2, 138–156) Abstract
52nd Meeting
July 18, 2020 (Saturday)
online at 5:30 p.m.
Readings:
“Ahimsa and the ethics of caring” by Hemchandran Karah, 2020 (ms.) Abstract
53rd Meeting (with Fiona Kumari Cambell)
August 8th 2020 (Saturday)
online at 5:30 p.m.
Reading:
"Precision ableism: a studies in ableism approach to developing histories of disability and abledment" by Fiona Kumari Campbell (Rethinking HIstory, 2019, Vol. 23, No. 2, 138–156) Abstract
Contours of Ableism by Fiona Kumari Campbell (2019, Macmillan Palgrave, pp. 3-29)
54th Meeting
Augusst 29, 2020 (Saturday)
online at 5:30 p.m.
Readings:
“Ability Privilege: A Needed Addition to Privilege Studies”, in Journal for Critical Animal Studies, 2014, 12.2: 118-141. [download]
55th Meeting (with Gregor Wolbring)
September 1, 2020 (Saturday)
online at 7:30 p.m. IST
Readings :
Ability Expectation/Ableism glossary (website)
“Ability Privilege: A Needed Addition to Privilege Studies”, in Journal for Critical Animal Studies, 2014, 12.2: 118-141. [download]
(with Anita Ghai) “Interrogating the impact of scientific and technological development on disabled children in India and beyond”, 2015, Disability and the Global South, 2.2: 667-685.
56th Meeting
October 3, 2020 (Saturday)
online at 5:30 p.m. IST -7:00 PM IST
Readings :
"Organizing survival and resistance in austere times: shifting disability activism and care politics in Ontario, Canada" by Mary Jean Hande & Christine Kelly
"Ten Principles of Disability Justice" by Patricia Berne, Aurora Levins Morales, David Langstaff, Sins Invalid
57th Meeting
January 16, 2021 (Saturday)
online at 5:30 p.m. IST -7:00 PM IST
Film Screening : Intouchables
58th Meeting
March 20, 2021 (Saturday)
online at 5:30 p.m. IST -7:00 PM IST
Readings: 'Disabled Women: An Excluded Agenda' by Anita Ghai, Hypatia vol. 17 no. 3 (2002)
CDSI Writing Session (2 Oct 2021; 7;30-9:30 PM)
59th Meeting
Dec. 18, 2021 (Saturday)
Online at 7 PM IST
"PROF. NEERA DESAI: A VIBRANT PIONEER" by Anita Ghai, 12th Neera Desai Memorial Lecture (16th Dec. 2021); SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai.
(to attend, contact sigdsu2012@gmail.com)
60th Meeting
Dec. 30, 2021 (Saturday)
Online at 4 PM IST
"The Metanarrative of Blindness in India" by Hemachandran Karah, in Metanarrative od Disability ed, by David Bolt, 2021, Routledge.
61st Meeting [First "in person" meeting after 2 years and 10 months]
March 27, 2022 (Sunday)
Room 218, Dept. Linguistics
Arts Faculty Extension Building
University of Delhi
(to attend, contact sigdsu2012@gmail.com)
all about love (2000) by bell hooks (Chapters 1-2)
62nd Meeting
October 19, 2023 (Thursday)
Room 220, Dept. Linguistics
Arts Faculty Extension Building
University of Delhi
(to attend, contact sigdsu2012@gmail.com)
Titchkosky & De Welles (2020): University Managed Minds: The Colonial Reproduction of Students as Mental Health Problems. Journal of disability studies in education 1.