Sandell and Garland-Thompson ~ Re-Presenting Disability: Activism and Agency in the Museum Reading Schedule

Sandell and Garland-Thompson ~ Re-Presenting Disability: Activism and Agency in the Museum
Reading Schedule

Week of Sept 12:
1. Active practice

Week of Sept 19:
2. Picturing people with disabilities: classical portraiture as reconstructive narrative
3. Agents at Angkor

Week of Sept 26:
4. 'See no evil'
5. Ghosts in the war museum

Week of Oct 3:
6. Behind the shadow of Merrick
7. Disability reframed: challenging visitor perceptions in the museum

Week of Oct 10:
8. To label the label? 'Learning disability' and exhibiting 'critical proximity'
9. Hurting and healing: reflections on representing experiences of mental illness in museums
10. Histories of disability and medicine: reconciling historical narratives and contemporary values

Week of Oct 17:
11. Revealing moments: representations of disability and sexuality
12. The red wheelchair in the white snowdrift
13. Face to face: representing disfigurement in a museum context

Week of Oct 24:
14. 'Out from Under': a brief history of everything
15. Transforming practice: disability perspectives and the museum
16. Reciprocity, accountability, empowerment: emancipatory principles and practices in the museum

Week of Oct 31:
17. Disability, human rights, and the public gaze: The Losheng Story Museum
18. A museum for all? The Norwegian Museum of Deaf History and Culture
19. Collective bodies: what museums do for disabilities studies