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Title
Papers in the session
1.0Friday, July 24
10:30-12:00
1.0 Opening Keynote:
Steven Steven Angelides. “Disorder 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
Pat Elliot. When the Data Fight Back Clinical Subjectivities
Stephanie Speanburg. Fine Lines Carved in Flesh
Kristin Ireland. Crossing Borders: an exploration of sex reassignment surgery in Ontario's history
Copeland.Samantha Copeland. Psychopharmacology and
Session 2.3 Experiencing“Interrogating Normative Presuppositions and Managing "Self"Prescriptions”
Jim Overboe. Affirming ‘Disorderly Conduct’
Samantha Walsh. My Personal Trainer 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 BadMy Culture Want me to Walk More
Joseph Mancuso. Controlling the Body: the history of the gym
15:15-16:30
Session 3.1 Critical Intersex
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
Naomi Binder Wall. Revealing Conversion Disorder: Hysteria, rheumatoid arthritis, and iaterogenic illness
Session 5.2 Resisting and Reframing
HeidieHeidi Rimke. Disordering
Hilary Clark. Disordering the Oedipal Narrative
Lisa Dias. Understanding Agonias via the habitus
Session 5.3 Embodying and Embracing Disorder
Choppick.Bryn Choppick. Disordered Bodies
Christopher Riddle. Disorders, Disability and Equality
Kristen Hardy. Queering Bellies: (Re)reading Desire, Orientation and the Fat Male Body
Session14:00-15:30
Session 6.1 Symposium:
Voronka et al. Making Room for Rupture
Session 6.2 SpeakingRupture: 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 Speaking to Embodied/Embodying DifferenceIllness
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
Speanburg.Patricia Elliot. When the Data Fight Back: Debating Alice Dreger’s defence of Michael J.Bailey
Stephanie Speanburg. Fine Lines
Sesssion 6.3 Symposium: Gender Identity and Politics in the DSM
Monica Cowart. Gendered Deconstructions of Adolescent Rape and PTSD
Gordene MacKenzie. Whose Disorder: Gender Identity Disorder and Cultural Warfare
MarryMary Marcel. Pseudo Psychological Terms
Sunday July 26
9:00-10:30
Session 7.1 Queering Intersextionaity: intersex, queer theory, sexual health and "bodiosocial" justiceSymposium
Bethany Stevens and Sunny Nordmarken. Queering IntersextionalityQueer Corpo(realities) of Transgender, Intersex, and Disability: Towards a Coalitional Politics for Bodiosexual Justice
Session 7.2 “Interrogating Normative PresuppositionsExperiencing and Prescriptions”
Jim Overboe. Affirming ‘Disorderly Conduct’
Walsh. My Personal TrainerManaging "Self" and My Culture Want me to Walk More
Mancuso. Controlling the Body: the history of the gym"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 CrawfordCrawford. Aboriginal Docile
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.

Acceptance rate
of 77%. MostMany of the proposals were very stronghighly-rated and creative four categories (accept,(excellent, top priority; accept with no or with minor revisions, major revisions,revisions; possibly accept, definitely with revisions; and not accept).reject). There was

Acceptance rate
Organizers received 35 abstracts for papers and symposia. Each set of symposium papers was treated as a single proposal for reviewing purposes. Of the 35 proposals, 27 are being presented, for an acceptance rate of 77%. Most of the original proposals were very strong and creative in their approach to the interdisciplinary topic. In keeping with our goal of bringing to the conference a good number of graduate student papers and strong representation from many different disciplines, our review form had four categories (accept, minor revisions, major revisions, and not accept). There was space for constructive feedback, and several papers will benefit from advice provided by our 25 Canadian and international reviewers.

Dissemination
The Call for Papers was posted on the websites or email lists for
Canadian Association for Schools of Social Work
Canadian Philosophical Association
Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy
Canadian Society for the History of Medicine
Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics
Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy
Canadian Women's Studies Association
National Women's Studies Association
Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture
It was distributed on the following international discussion lists:
Philosophy Updates (also posted on PU website)
Disability Studies (ds-hum)
History of Sexuality (hist-sex.l)
Queer Studies (qstudy-l)
Women’s Studies (wmst-l)
It was also posted electronically to
all Canadian Philosophy departments with graduate programs
all University of Waterloo Philosophy faculty and graduate students
University of Waterloo Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences announcements lists
all Canadian Sociology Departments
Wilfrid Laurier Cultural Analysis and Social Theory MA students
a Facebook group for the conference

Disorderly Conduct, to be held July 24-26 2009, examines the ethical and cultural implications of language in a shifting model of medical and clinical care. International researchers and students will explore, from humanities and social sciences perspectives, various identity categories previously or newly configured as "disorders." At issue are the ways in which gender, sexuality, ability, race, age, class, educational attainment, proximity to care provision intersect with "disorder" as a descriptive and prescriptive term. We will promote collaborative scholarship between international and interdisciplinary scholars who bridge the humanities, social sciences and medical areas of specialization. Selected proceedings will be disseminated in a peer-reviewed journal.

Conference objectives
deployment of disorder.the language of "disorder". Since Foucault's the Clinic, interdisciplinary researchers from across the humanities and social sciences have argued realm of healing or healthcare, but counter-stream with these critiques of
Significance and timeliness of the theme
diagnostic fact. Taking aim at contemporary psychiatric practice and capitalist investmentsRosemarie Garland-Thomson's Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in a compliant workforce, Carl Elliott's Better than well: American medicine meets the American dream (Norton, 2003) asks usLiterature and Culture (Columbia UP, 1997) has given to reflect critically onstudies of embodiment (including disability, sexuality, and psychological concerns) the assertionlanguage of "the normate." Garland-Thomson argues that a varietythe normate fantasy of mood "disorders" are purely biologicalhuman being -- the idealized, atomized, rationalized and chemically manageable phenomena, rather than valuable symptoms of social conditionsradically individualized body -- devalues the frailty, disability and dependency that produce suffering.mark and characterize most human lives and relationships. Eric Parens' UP, 2000), asks us to critically examineexamines a variety human frailty) when we seek to do away with disorder, and what of humans, diescrimination, etc.).discrimination, etc.) when we seek to do away with disorder. Finally, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson's Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disabilitytaking aim at contemporary psychiatric practice and capitalist investments in a compliant workforce, Carl Elliott's Better than well: American Literature and Culture (Columbia UP, 1997) has given to studiesmedicine meets the American dream (Norton, 2003) critically reflects on the assertion that a variety of embodiment (including disability, sexuality,mood "disorders" are purely biological and psychological concerns) the languagechemically manageable phenomena, rather than valuable symptoms of "the normate." The normate fantasy of human being, the idealized, atomized, rationalized and radically individualized body, Garland-Thomson has argued, devalues the frailty, disability and dependencysocial conditions that mark and characterize most human lives and relationships.produce suffering.
These touchstone texts prefigure our conceptionare touchstones for a new generation of Disorderly Conduct's intervention, whose timeliness is certifiedinterdisciplinary scholars who work in part by growth in several directions as the field has matured. Our conference works at the intersections ofintellectual space where disability studies intersects with such intersex studies.
It is, then, toward disorder rather than away from it that the In gathering together some 100 of these scholars for a weekend of colloquia, symposia and workshops, Disorderly Conduct conference turns its embrace,marks a significant Canadian chapter in an international field of increasing breadth and it is toward rather than away from clinical diagnostic practice that Disorderly Conduct papers direct their critical gaze.influence.
Appropriateness and quality of the conference's scope and program in relation to the theme
based model.
[Morgan, could you please add While many of these talks adopt a paragraph here highlightingcritical stance toward clinical language and practice, Disorderly Conduct will also feature a handfuldiscussion panel composed of Health Sciences scholars who both provide clinical care, and educate future clinicians. As fraught as the paperslanguage of "disorder" continues to be presented,be, it is important that critics and showing how they give thescholars of "disorder" and clinicians meet and share their ideas and expertise. This conference provides an impressively broad scope, but at the same time are importantly relevant to each other. No two of these talks should concern the same disorder.]important venue for such an exchange.
Caliber of the speakers
University, Australia. StevenDr. Angelides is the recently of the emotional and work critiques a popular politic that caststhe current vogue for treating adolescence as a stage best characterised as a developmental stage (inin which brain and ill-conceived behaviours).behaviours.
Robert McRuer L. Wilkerson) "DesiringDesiring Disability: Queer Meets Disability Studies"Studies Special Double the conference.
Dr. Katrina
Katrina Roen. Associate
Contribution to research and scholarship a) in Canada and b) internationally
"Disorderly Conduct"Disorderly Conduct marks the first such interdisciplinary conference of its kind to take
Ways in which the conference fosters links between appropriate disciplines or fields
Each of the panels draws together scholars at different stages of research, and from different disciplines and sub-fields, thus providing participants and attendees multiple opportunities to catalyze their thinking through an interdisciplinary framework. The inclusion of a variety of specialized symposia and two round-tables will provide extensive opportunity for considered discussion of the issues raised by the panels and presentations.
Role of students
be delivering XXnumber?25 talks and interventions, XXone invited and XX refereed.24 blind-refereed. Conference organizers

Conference objectives
"pervasive development disorder." Individuals who were once describeddisorder"; individuals previously apprehended as intersex or hermaphroditeintersexed are now not only tends to conflateconflates quite disparate conditions; itconditions but also serves
Significance and timeliness of the theme
In the interdisciplinary field of disability studies, three key texts serve as critical departure points for the questioning of "disorder" as a neutral and objective statement of clinical or diagnostic fact. Taking aim at contemporary psychiatric practice and capitalist investments in a compliant workforce, Carl Elliott's Better than well: American medicine meets the American dream (Norton, 2003) asks us to reflect critically on the assertion that a variety of mood "disorders" are purely biological and chemically manageable phenomena, rather than valuable symptoms of social conditions that produce suffering. Eric Parens' and Adrienne Asch's landmark collection, Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights (Georgetown UP, 2000), asks us to critically examine a variety of reproductive technologies, not as means through which would-be parents exercise more choice but as a set of ideologically linked technologies aimed at quality control of "products of fertilization." The language of "disorder" in the prenatal testing context is clearly to be refused, but Parens and Asch and the disability studies scholars who write in the collection ask us to consider what we lose (the full spectrum of human frailty) when we seek to do away with disorder, and what we promote (prejudice, fear, economic value of humans, diescrimination, etc.). Finally, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson's Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Literature and Culture (Columbia UP, 1997) has given to studies of embodiment (including disability, sexuality, and psychological concerns) the language of "the normate." The normate fantasy of human being, the idealized, atomized, rationalized and radically individualized body, Garland-Thomson has argued, devalues the frailty, disability and dependency that mark and characterize most human lives and relationships.

Conference objectives
To explore and problematize the clinical deployment of “disorder”, “Disorderly“Disorderly Conduct” bringswill bring together international women's studies .
Sinceto explore and problematize the clinical deployment of disorder. Since Foucault's Birth governance model, citzen/subjectscitizens/subjects are taken regulatory technologies. Critics argue that this corporal regimentation is meant to ensure the rational and efficient functioning of a liberal society. In simultaneous deploying the l language of Clinical language speaks no longer speaks of madness,"madness", but of
Significance and timeliness of the theme
In the inerdisciplinaryinterdisciplinary field of
These touchstone texts prefigure our conception of Disorderly Conduct's intervention, whose timeliness is certified in part by growth in several directions as the field has matured. Our conference works at the intersections of disability studies with such diverse areas as queer theory, feminist theories of embodiment, post-structuralist ethics, and the burgeoning field of intersex studies.
It is, then, toward disorder rather than away from it that the Disorderly Conduct conference turns its embrace, and it is toward rather than away from clinical diagnostic practice that Disorderly Conduct papers direct their critical gaze.

Conference objectives
To explore and problematize the clinical deployment of “disorder”, “Disorderly Conduct” brings together international scholars from such disciplines as sociology, philosophy, health studies, history and women's studies .
bodily functions areis contained under under the rubricumbrellas of such language as "autism spectrum the social body, bothbody by stigmatizing body and by therebythus defining and
Significance and timeliness of the theme
In the history of theinerdisciplinary field of
These touchstone texts prefigure our conception of Disorderly Conduct's intervention, whose timeliness is certified in part by growth in several directions as the field has matured. Our conference works at the intersections of disability studies with such diverse areas as queer theory, feminist theories of embodiment, post-structuralist ethics, and the burgeoning field of intersex studies.
It is, then, toward disorder rather than away from it that the Disorderly Conduct conference turns its embrace, and it is toward rather than away from clinical diagnostic practice that Disorderly Conduct papers direct their critical gaze.
[Morgan, could you please add a paragraph here highlighting a handful of the papers to be presented, and showing how they give the conference an impressively broad scope, but at the same time are importantly relevant to each other. No two of these talks should concern the same disorder.]
Caliber of the speakers
keynote speaker for Disorderly Conduct is currently
Robert McRuer is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of English at George Washington University, Washington. He has fifteen articles in refereed journals and books, as well as two important monographs and a key edited collection in the field. His Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability (NYU P, 2006) was a finalist for a 2007 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies and the winner of the 2007 Alan Bray Memorial Book Award (presented by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association). His co-edited (with Abby L. Wilkerson) "Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies" Special Double Issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 9:1-2 (Duke UP, 2003) won the 2003 Best Special Issue Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ). Dr. McRuer has also authored the Afterword for the Critical Intersex collection (Ashgate, 2009) that will be the subject of a roundtable at the conference.
Dr. Katrina Roen is a tenured memberRoen. Associate Professor of the psychology department at the of Norway, and has contributed Roen's contributions are significant not only in psychology, but acrossaddress a range decidedly interdisciplinary approach.perspective.
Contribution to research and scholarship a) in Canada and b) internationally
brings a distinuisheddistinguished tradition to does so withas the most health sciences. The conference furthermore promises to promote collaborative research networks for Canadian faculty at various career-stages. We are attention of the Atlantis Journal of Feminist Studies' board,Studies, and an the journal board to publish of the conference papers presented at the conference.presented.
Ways in which the conference fosters links between appropriate disciplines or fields
Each of the panels draws together scholars at different stages of research, and from different disciplines and sub-fields, thus providing participants and attendees multiple opportunities to catalyze their thinking through an interdisciplinary framework. The inclusion of a variety of specialized symposia and two round-tables will provide extensive opportunity for considered discussion of the issues raised by the panels and presentations.