Enabling the Humanities Conference
Watch an interview with Brenda Brueggemann
Brueggemann talks about the Enabling the Humanities Conference.
(2 minutes 51 seconds, captioned)
The Enabling the Humanities Conference was held in April of 1998 and was the first academic conference specifically intersecting disability within the Humanities. It was funded by a grant from the English department at Ohio State and a grant from the Ohio Humanities Council both given to Brenda Brueggemann. The three day event included presentations from key people within the field of Disability Studies such as: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Lennard Davis, Anne Finger and more. The title for the Modern Language Association’s book “Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities” grew out of this conference.
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