Disability Aesthetics
Disability Aesthetics
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残疾美学
DOI:
10.1632/s0030812900167860
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2005
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通讯作者:
T. Siebers
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T. Siebers
sentation entitled “Doing / Not Doing Disability Studies at Berkeley,” and James V. Ferris delivered a paper called “Disability Studies at Madison: The Wisconsin Idea.” (Schweik did not submit a written version of her presentation for reprinting or summary.) Ferris discussed the institutional conditions at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, that gave rise to disability studies there. A document from 1995 proposing a cluster-hiring initiative emphasized the need for interdisciplinary collaborative work among faculty members across the colleges. The cluster idea represented a strategic opportunity to meet curricular needs that were unlikely to receive funding under normal institutional practices. In fall 2000 a new center for the humanities opened on the Madison campus. It hosted interdisciplinary humanities workshops, funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The center won a grant to establish a disability studies reading and discussion group. A symposium held in 2001, entitled The Body in Real Time: Disability Studies in the Humanities, featured well-established scholars in the field and solidified the place of disability studies at Madison. The symposium organizers recruited faculty members who had not been a part of the reading and discussion group to serve as respondents, thereby engaging a new group of campus citizens in the topic. By 2001 nearly sixty faculty members from eight of the university’s thirteen colleges had signed on to a cluster-hiring initiative in disability studies. Three positions, including one at the senior level, were awarded. Because of budgetary constraints, only two clusters received authorization to hire, one of which was the disability studies initiative. The campus has seen other measures of interest in disability studies: a student interest group and a consortium among the institutions of the University of Wisconsin system. —RGF