black and white cityscape with blue overlay on the left that reads SAA 50th Annual Meeting, April 6-9, Jacksonville, FL

Welcome Auditors!

On Saturday, April 6, 4-6PM EDT, our seminar will meet in conference for the Shakespeare Association of America’s 50th Annual Meeting. We are so pleased to have you join us–either in person or online. This is the second in a two-seminar series on Shakespeare’s ‘Other Disability Plays.’ Inspired by David Sterling Brown’s call to expand discussion…
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Response to Nic Helms “How Much Care?”

For starters, Nic, I love the way you write. The flow of ideas and the ways in which you connect your points feels intuitive and easy to follow. Now, all I want to do is hang out with you and hear more about Shakespeare’s women and “their melancholy, trauma, and responses to misogyny in terms…
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Response to Penelope Geng’s Refusing Ablenationalism

Thanks for this fascinating piece on Timon, Penny! I think this idea of peripheral embodiment at the intersection of disability studies can indeed produce fruitful insights into the how the language of labor and productivity exponentially impacts identities constructive in multivalent nontypical descriptors. We certainly live in a state of ablenationalism in the US today.…
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Some thoughts on Ari Friedlander’s insightful article on the word Impotent

Ari, what a fascinating discussion of impotence and its discursive resonances in the early modern period. I was most interested in your analysis of these two texts which seek to categorize impotence in order to limit aid to poor, disabled citizens and how this attempt to create a legible category, they wind up destabilizing the…
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Musings on Ari Friedlander’s “The Signification of the word Impotent”: Disability, Labor, and Philology in the Poor Laws

I quite appreciated the clarity and power of Ari’s opening principles in this paper. Ari lists them together on the first page, but I’d like to cheer them on one by one. “a) Early modern disability as a social identity is intimately tied to the history of the poor laws and the history of sexuality,…
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The Conference Plan

Hello Seminarians! Lindsey and Bellee here with our final seminar update before SAA 2022. Our conference meeting will take place on Saturday, April 9, from 4-6PM Eastern. The seminar will be hybrid in form. For the first few minutes, participants in two locations–in Florida and online–will take a moment to introduce auditors in either location…
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