Medical Humanities and the Fantastic: Neurodiversity and Disability
Online Symposium
11 February 2022
Schedule
(GMT)
9:45 – 10:00 Welcome
10:00 – 10:15 Keynote Lecture Q&A: Ria Cheyne
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30-11:30 Panel 1: “Fantastic as Methodology”
David Hartley: “Autism and Estrangement”
Emma Dee: “Hauntology and Lost Futures – Trauma Narratives in the Contemporary Gothic”
Josefine Wälivaara: “Out of time: Subversion of Normative Time and Disability in Science Fiction”
11:30-11:45 Break
Panel 2:
11:45-12:45 Panel 2A: “Senses and Sensing the World Differently”
Chair: Anna McFarlane
Sarah Neef: The “City of Unseen Steps”: Blindness and Palimpsestual Sensory Impressions in Jonathan Dark or the Evidence of Ghosts
Bridget Bartlett: “Rethinking “Mind-Blindness” with Sidney’s New Arcadia”
Leigha McReynolds: “Productive Bodyminds in Samuel R. Delany’s Babel-17”
11:45-12:45 Panel 2B: “Lived Experiences”
Chair: Beata Gubacsi
Jennifer Slagus: “Roll for Initiative: How Gaming Graphic Novels Are Changing Neurodiversity Representation in Children’s Literature”
Yoon, wn-ho: “Web novel in the Republic of Korea – in the viewpoint of Autistic-Neurodiversity”
Brian Keeley: “Colonising Heart Transplantation: fantastical film (mis)representations of the lived experience”
12:45-13:45 Lunch break
Panel 3:
13:45-14:45 Panel 3A: “Disability and Neurodiversity on Screen”
Chair: Anna McFarlane
Margaret Tedford: “Eccentric angels and irregular demons: Reading neurodiverse experience in Good Omens”
Jess Gibson: “Blurring the Boundaries of Human/Machine, Dis/Ability and Good/Evil in the depiction of John Silver in Disney’s Treasure Planet”
Rebecca Jones: “Augmented Animated Bodies: Disability in American and Japanese Animated Film and Television”
13:45-14:45 Panel 3B: “Disability, Myths and Mythmaking”
Chair: Beata Gubacsi
Clare Moore: “Tolkien’s Disabled Landscapes”
Ellena Deeley “Conjoined Twins and Identity Multiplicity in Diasporic Marvellous Realist Fiction: Nalo Hopkinson’s Sister Mine”
Radhika Sharma: “From Marvelous Freaks to Pathological Deviants: A Study of Extraordinary Bodies in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1981)
14:45-15:00 Break
15:00– 15:45 Keynote lecture: Louise Creechan
15:45-16:00 Break
16:00-17:00 Creative Panel
Discussion with Bogi Takács and Jo Ross-Barrett