In/Dependence:
Disability, Welfare, and Age
a symposium
Friday April 7, 2006
This interdisciplinary symposium brings together diverse audiences--academic and community-based--to ignite discussion and foster understanding of the meanings and implications of depedency and independence, and especially their impact on the lives and self-understandings of individuals and groups. It will also examine resulting challenges for public policy and social justice.
Read
on to learn more about:
• symposium speakers
• symposium information
• special events
• on-line registration
• background readings
Symposium Speakers
Margaret
Morganroth Gullette
(Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis)
Eva Feder Kittay (Philosophy, SUNY-Stony Brook)
Sanford F. schram (Social Work, Bryn Mawr)
Atwood
Gaines (Anthropology, Bioethics, Nursing, and Psychiatry, Case
Western Reserve), moderator
For background readings, please see below
Anne Basting (Theater and Center on Age & Community, UWM) and
Andrea Westlund (Philosophy and Center for Women's Studies, UWM),
organizers
Kate Kramer (Center for 21st Century Studies), coordinator
Symposium Information
Date: Friday,
April 7, 2006
Location: Curtin Hall 175, 3243 N. Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Registration: 9 am
Symposium: 10 am - 5 pm
9 – 10 am: Registration (coffee & continental breakfast)
10 am: Welcomes
Daniel J. Sherman (History; Center director)
Symposium organizers Anne Basting (Theatre; Center on Age &
Community) and Andrea Westlund (Philosophy)
10:15 – 11:30
am: Sanford F. schram (Bryn Mawr):
"Uncaring
Neoliberal Paternalism: A Compassionate Response to the Punitive Turn
in Poverty Management”
11:30 am – 12:45
pm: Lunch
Greene Hall,
UWM, 3347 North Downer Avenue
(Deadline for registration / lunch fees: Noon, March 22)
1:00 – 2:15 pm: Eva Feder Kittay (Stony Brook): "Equal Dignity, Disability, and Dependence"
2:15 – 2:30 pm: Coffee Break
2:30 – 3:45 pm: Margaret
Morganroth Gullette (Brandeis):
"My Mother and I Fall"
3:45 – 5:00 pm:
Open Discussion
Atwood Gaines (Case Western), moderator
Special Events
Art Exhibition
"The Power of Place: Elders' Voices in the Walnut Way Community"
Raoul Deal (Peck school of the Arts, UWM), in collaboration with Cheryl Ajirotutu (Anthropology, UWM), has created this exhibit to coincide with the symposium. It is part of a larger project supported by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Mary L. Nohl Fund and features art work based on conversations with older adults from Walnut Way, a historically black neighborhood in Milwaukee. The exhibition reception is open to all and will begin following the close of the symposium at 5:30 in room 171 of UWM's Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 East Kenwood Boulevard
Choreographed Performance
The day will culminate at 6:30 in room 280 of the Zelazo Center for
the Performing Arts with a special preview of Simone Ferro's (Dance,
UWM) about the Walnut Way community.
The Symposium In/Dependence: Welfare, Disability, and Age, co-sponsored by the Center for 21st Century Studies, college of Letters and Science, with support from the graduate school as well as the Center on Age & Community, UWM, is funded in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Humanities Council, with funds from the National Endowment of the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this project do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Center for 21st Century Studies
Merry Wiesner-Hanks
Interim Director
Center
for 21st Century StudiesUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA
tel: 414-229-4141; fax: 414-229-5964; email: ctr21cs@uwm.edu
www.21st.uwm.edu
