SessionTitles

Session titles and programme -- REVISED June 2009

Title Papers in the session


 * Friday, July 24

10:30-12:00

1.0 Opening Keynote: Steven Angelides. “Disorder as a ‘Pseudo-Idea’”.

13:30-15:00 Session 2.1 Disordering the DSM

Lynda R. Ross, What happens when we start looking at relationship “problems” as attachment “disorders”?

Daniel Patrone. Suffering, Controversial Choices, and Persistent, Contentious Disorders

Stephanie Guthrie. The Marriage of Psychiatry and Capitalism

Session 2.2 Clinical Subjectivities

Stephanie Speanburg. Fine Lines Carved in Flesh

Kristin Ireland. Crossing Borders: an exploration of sex reassignment surgery in Ontario's history

Samantha Copeland. Psychopharmacology and the Nature of Psychiatric Disorder Session 2.3** **“Interrogating Normative Presuppositions and Prescriptions”

Jim Overboe. Affirming ‘Disorderly Conduct’

Samantha Walsh. My Personal Trainer and My Culture Want me to Walk More

Joseph Mancuso. Controlling the Body: the history of the gym**

Session 3.1 Critical Intersex
 * 15:15-16:30

Roundtable with authors of the forthcoming collection from Ashgate Press: Morgan Holmes, Lena Eckert, Margreit Van Heesch, Alyson Spurgas, Robert McRuer

Session 3.2 “Names Can Never Hurt me..” How Health Care Professionals’ Training Ignores the Power of our Diagnostic Labelling”

Roundtable with Kelly Anthony, Sandra Bullock, Christina Mills, Steven Mock, Suzanne Tyas

Saturday July 25

9:30-10:30

Session 4.0 Featured Plenary: Robert McRuer.

11:00-12:30

Session 5.1 Symposium: Ruling Disorderly Conduct: The uses of Dorothy Smith’s relations of ruling for revealing psychiatric violence

Rachel Gorman. Disorderly Children: Hyperkietic reaction of childhood, behaviour modification, and the violence of diagnosis

Erick Fabris. Disorder and Insight: Cycling of evidence, chemical incarceration and community treatment orders

Naomi Binder Wall. Revealing Conversion Disorder: Hysteria, rheumatoid arthritis, and iaterogenic illness Session 5.2 Resisting and Reframing

Heidi Rimke. Disordering Subjects: Psychocentrism, Resistance, and the Normative Construction of Disorder

Hilary Clark. Disordering the Oedipal Narrative

Lisa Dias. Understanding Agonias via the habitus Session 5.3 Embodying and Embracing Disorder

Bryn Choppick. Disordered Bodies

Christopher Riddle. Disorders, Disability and Equality

Kristen Hardy. Queering Bellies: (Re)reading Desire, Orientation and the Fat Male Body

14:00-15:30

Session 6.1 Symposium: Making Room for Rupture: Organizing Against Biomedical Orders

Jijian Voronka. Disorderly Diagnosis: Resisting Psy Comprehension through the Media Case File of Britney Spears

Katie Aubrecht. Don’t Lose your Heads:A Disability Studies Examination of the Crisis in Student Mental Health and Illness

Anne McGuire. Representing Autism: A Sociological examination of contemporary Conceptions of Autism in Advocacy Session 6.2 Contested Sites: Disorderly Resistance

Lena Eckert and Robby Davidson. Disorders of Sex Development: terminological debates** Sesssion 6.3 Symposium: Gender Identity and Politics in the DSM
 * Patricia Elliot. When the Data Fight Back: Debating Alice Dreger’s defence of Michael J.Bailey**
 * Stephanie Speanburg. Fine Lines Carved in Flesh

Monica Cowart. Gendered Deconstructions of Adolescent Rape and PTSD

Gordene MacKenzie. Whose Disorder: Gender Identity Disorder and Cultural Warfare

Mary Marcel. Pseudo Love: Pedophilia and Ephebophilia as Corrupt Psychological Terms

Sunday July 26

9:00-10:30 Session 7.1 Symposium

Bethany Stevens and Sunny Nordmarken. Queer Corpo(realities) of Transgender, Intersex, and Disability: Towards a Coalitional Politics for Bodiosexual Justice Session 7.2** **Experiencing and Managing "Self" and "Other"

Amanda Campbell. M/Other: Reproducing Otherness in Birthing Difference

Erin Fredericks. Disordered Experience or Experiencing Disorder

Erin Donohue. What Once was Sick is now Bad**
 * Session 7.3 “Discourse and Power: Rendering persons as problematic groups”

Rachel Crawford. Aboriginal Docile Bodies; First Nations and TB

Marie Lovrod and Lynda R. Ross. Post Trauma: The social/political consequences of anxiety disorders

Christine Kelly. Noncompliant Patients, Independent Living Movement and Midwifery

11:00-12:15

Session 8.0 Closing Plenary: Katrina Roen. Variant Clinical Discourses: problematising the conceptual foundations for clinical interventions with gender variant youth.

12:15-12:30

Closing Remarks: Morgan Holmes and Shannon Dea

Sunday afternoon: optional excursion to Stratford, Ontario to view Cyrano de Bergerac.**