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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

MLA panel: Queer & Disability Studies Interventions in Biomedicine and Public Health

For those attending the upcoming MLA conference, you are invited:

2012 MLA, Seattle, WA

Critical Healing: Queer and Disability Studies Interventions in Biomedicine
and Public Health

Fri., Jan. 6, 10:15-11:30 am
620 Washington State Convention Center

A Literature & Science Division panel

Presiding: Rebecca Garden, SUNY Upstate Medical Univ.

1.  Marty Fink, Concordia University, “Culture as Prevention: Contemporary
Representations of HIV/AIDS”

2.  William J. Spurlin, Brunel University, London, “Queer Theory and
Biomedical Practice: New Junctures among Science--Sexuality--Culture”

3.  Stephanie Yorke, University of Oxford, “Activism and the ‘Collective
Sick’: Disability and Group Identity in Indra Sinha’s *Animal’s People*”

For abstracts, go to:  http://criticalhealing.blogspot.com/

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