#17CCDS Lovely close analysis of Anne Finger's work by Pauline Eyre.

#17CCDS Pauline Eyre using Bakhtin's carnivalesque to read powerful passage from Anne Finger's Helen and Frida

#17CCDS Pauline Eyre explores how Anne Finger's Call Me Ahab mobilises disability as narrative force. Using genre of biofiction & Bakhtin.

#17CCDS Denise Saul shares her video poem Of Glass, explores intersection of poetry, aphasia and voice

#17CCDS Harriet Dunn drawing on her own experience of inaccessible art education in her PhD research @HatiRose

#17CCDS @SuzieAngus: Tyrion's gift of saddle to Bran in #GameOfThrones as a gift of disabled experience

#17CCDS Really looking forward to Suzie Angus's paper on disability in Game of Thrones! @SuzieAngus #disabilitystudies

#17CCDS @AneliseFarris arguing for Wells' Island of Dr Moreau as early incarnation of posthumanism

#17CCDS Rod Michalko: what compels us to simulate (blindness)?

#17CCDS Sheri Wells-Jensen: "a blind species would not build their culture around the ability to see" #disabilitysf

#17CCDS The blind civilisations examined by Sheri Wells-Jensen

#17CCDS Sheri Wells-Jensen: what would a civilisation of blind beings look like, if sight were not the norm? #disabilitysf

#17CCDS Lovely discussion of autistic and autist-ish characters in SF film and TV by @Fantastic_Aut #disabilitysf

#17CCDS Lovely discussion of 'accessible futures' by Michael Stokes in our first #disabilitysf panel.

#17CCDS Lovely idea to give some space to attendees in Introduction - space for people to introduce themselves & their interests.

#17CCDS Erin Pritchard highlights an open call for JLCDS special issue on representations on dwarfism.

#17CCDS David Bolt & @penketc highlight opps to be involved in future events: Disability Gains symposium (Sept 17), Emotions seminars 17-18

Looking forward to catching up with #disabilitystudies friends & colleagues at #17CCDS @LiverpoolHopeUK tomorrow!

CfP: “Disability and Disciplines” Hope University, Liverp...

And another fab SF and #disabilitystudies CfP! Sue Smith is putting together a panel for #17CCDS - details at www.fantastic-arts.org/2016/cfp-disability-and-...

If #cedr16 whetted your appetite for Northern #disabilitystudies conferences, we're accepting proposals for #17CCDS! http://ccds.hope.ac.uk/ourconference.html

CFP for #17CCDS! Not that I'm biased, but previous Centre for Culture & #DisabilityStudies conferences were AMAZING. http://ccds.hope.ac.uk/ourconference.html