The Center for Material Culture Studies (CMCS) at the University of Delaware shares video of its third biennial conference, “The Disability Gaze: Material and Visual Approaches.” The symposium was a a hybrid event held virtually and in-person at UD’s STAR campus.
Panel Two, "Disability Things," took place on April 30, 2022. The panel was moderated by Matthew Monk. Speakers and their talks are listed in order of appearance:
Emily Bach: “Compelled to pad and wad”: Scoliosis and Dress in the Nineteenth Century
Bess Williamson: Aesthetics and Materiality in Disability Things: Jake’s Brace
Ann Hewitt: The Emergence of Deaf Culture in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Ceramics
Madeleine Ware: (Fit)ting In: Orthopedic Devices and the Making of the Modern Healthy Woman in Victorian Britain and the United States
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