The Syracuse University School of Education is honored to co-sponsor Inclusion Imperative: A Two-day National Conference Honoring Diversity. The conference marks the official beginning of the School of Education’s centennial year celebrating the school’s century-long commitment to making a difference through education.
The School of Education joins with the co-sponsors of this event— the Facilitated Communication Institute and the Center on Disability Studies, Law and Human Policy at Syracuse University— in inviting you to explore issues involving representation, human rights and diversity with the conference’s distinguished speakers.
Friday, April 21, 2006
9:00–10:30 a.m. Opening Concurrent Sessions
10:45–12:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
12:15–1:30 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
1:30–3:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
3:15– 4:30 p.m. Plenary
5:00-6:30 p.m. School of Education Centennial Reception
7:30 p.m. Dinner (by reservation)
Saturday, April 22, 2006
9:00–10:30 a.m. Opening Concurrent Sessions
10:45–12:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
12:15–1:30 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
1:30–3:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
3:15– 4:30 p.m. Plenary
John Hockenberry
Journalist, Interviewer and Talk Show Host
We’re Not There Yet!…Fulfilling the Civil Covenant of Inclusion
Hockenberry became a correspondent for Dateline NBC in January 1996 after a fifteen-year career in broadcast news at both National Public Radio and ABC News. His reporting for Dateline NBC earned him an Emmy and much critical acclaim. His most prominent Dateline NBC reports include an hour-long documentary on the lives of three former AT&T employees affected by the company’s massive lay-offs, a hidden-camera investigation which confronted the discrimination facing the disabled community, and his extensive reporting for Dateline NBC on the death of Princess Diana. He left Dateline in 2005.
Hockenberry is the author of Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence, a memoir of his life as a foreign correspondent. In 1996, he performed Spokeman, a one-man, off-Broadway show based on his book. He also has written for the New York Times, The New Yorker, I.D., The Columbia Journalism Review, Details, and The Washington Post.
Born in Dayton, Ohio, Hockenberry grew up in New York and Michigan and attended both the University of Chicago and the University of Oregon. He and his wife, Alison, live in New York City with their twin daughters.
Simi Linton
Author, Academic, Theater and Arts Consultant
Reading & Writing Disability
Simi Linton is the author of My Body Politic, and Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity, as well as numerous articles on disability studies, and disability and the arts. She is co-director of the University Seminar in Disability Studies at Columbia University, and the spring 2006 Visiting Presidential Scholar at Hofstra University.
In 1998, Linton founded Disability/Arts, a consulting practice to arts organizations, museums, theater companies, and film and television producers. In 2005, Linton’s group co-produced three events on disability and theatre at the Public Theater and at Columbia University, and have several more planned for 2006.
Linton left her faculty position in 1998 as associate professor of psychology in the Division of Education at Hunter College after fourteen years of teaching. Over the past several years, she has delivered numerous lectures at colleges, universities and cultural institutions on disability studies as a field, and disability and the arts.
Gerardine Wurzburg
Documentary Film Producer and Director
From Regular Lives to Autism is a World: 20 Years of Documentary Film Making
Wurzburg, a documentary film producer and director, founded her own production company, State of the Art, Inc., 25 years ago. Since then, her films have addressed a range of topics involving contemporary history, social justice, education and health. Her work displays a strong sense of social awareness and responsibility and includes the following titles: We Dig Coal: A Portrait of Three Women (1981); the TV series Your Children, Our Children (1985); Regular Lives (1987); Prostate Cancer: Are You At Risk? (1998), for HBO; Educating Peter (1993) and Graduating Peter (2003); CNN Presents, President Kennedy Has Been Shot (2003) and Autism is a World (2005).
Her work has been recognized with numerous awards, including an Academy Award for the documentary Educating Peter and an Academy Award nomination for Autism is a World. She resides in Washington, D.C. with her husband and two daughters.
A Disability Studies of Music
Alex Lubet, University of Minnesota
At the Margins: Reflections on Inclusion
Johnson Cheu, Michigan State University
Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone: “Mountains of Practical Moments”
Douglas Biklen, Syracuse University
Blurred Distinctions: The Politics of
Metaphor in Life Writing by Blind, Epileptic
and Autistic Authors
Ralph Savarese, Grinnell College
Emily Savarese, University of Florida
Building an Inclusive Classroom Through
Children’s Literature and Music
Mara Sapon-Shevin, Syracuse University
Children in Foster Care: New Frontier for
Inclusion in Health and Educational Services
Steven Blatt, Upstate Medical University
Sheryl Dicker, Permanent Judicial Commission
on Justice for Children
Communication Rights for Deaf People
of the World
Bernard Bragg, California State University at Northridge
Deaf Patients Talk to Their Doctors:
A Sign of Competence
Michael Schwartz, Syracuse University
International Perspectives on
Inclusion and Equality
Eric Rosenthal, Mental Disability Rights International
Arlene Kanter, Syracuse University
King Gimp: The Man and the Artist
Dan Keplinger, Maryland Artist, Writer
Michael Smoot, Associate
Making Déjà vu Work for You: The
Communicative Power of Repetitive Language
Jamie Burke, Westhill High School
David Smukler, St. Bonaventure University
My Classic Life as an Artist:
A Portrait of Larry Bissonnette
Larry Bissonnette, Vermont Artist
Pascal Cravedi-Cheng, Howard Community Services
Non-speaking Doesn’t Equal Non-Verbal:
Building Literacy in Inclusive Classrooms
Emily Savarese, Ralph Savarese
Pierce Butler’s Dissent: Locating Disability
in the Equal Protection of the Law
Robert Hayman, Widener University of Law
Pimp or “Gimp?” Explorations of Race and
Disability in Lynn Manning’s “Weights”
Beth Ferri, Syracuse University
Popular People Do Homework
Cheli Paetow, Nicole DeClouette, and
Manny Guenther, Syracuse University
Presuming Competence:
Full Citizenship and Local Understanding
Chris Kliewer, Janet Sauer, and Jill McCarthy,
University of Northern Iowa
Christi Kasa-Hendrickson, Chapman University
Pushing the Limits: Cultural Signs of
Queerness and Disability
Robert McRuer, George Washington University
Rowing Upstream in Silence
Anne McDonald, Rosemary Crossley,
DEAL Communication Centre Inc.
Self-Determination as a Puzzle
Liz Obermayer Weintraub, The Council on
Quality and Leadership
Snow White and the Seven “Dwarfs”--Queercripped
Santiago Solis, Columbia University
Terrains of Struggle: Schools, Teachers,
Youth and Popular Culture
Jeff Mangram, Syracuse University
The Cycle of Exposes and Reforms of Institutions
Steve Taylor, Syracuse University
The Inclusion Imperative: Troubling the Other
Linda Ware, City University of New York
The Making of Autism is a World
Gerardine Wurzburg, State of the Art, Inc.
Sue Rubin, Whittier College
The Myths that Make for Exclusion: A Critical
Disability Perspective on Education
Marcia Rioux, York University
Useful Ideas for Teaching and Supporting All
Learners in the Inclusive Classrooms
Julie Causton-Theoharis, Syracuse University
Christy Ashby, Syracuse University
Using Multiple Intelligence Theory Approaches
for Teaching Students with Special Needs
Edward Fierros, Villanova University
Without Apology: A Film
Susan Hamovitch, Independent Film Producer
Conference support provided in part from a NLM Family Foundation grant and the following sponsors:
Please indicate attendees’ names below, attach additional sheet if necessary.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
REGISTRANT 1
_____________________________________________________________________________________
REGISTRANT 2
_____________________________________________________________________________________
REGISTRANT 3
_____________________________________________________________________________________
REGISTRANT 4
_____________________________________________________________________________________
REGISTRANT 5
_____________________________________________________________________________________
REGISTRANT 6
_____________________________________________________________________________________
REGISTRANT 7
_____________________________________________________________________________________
REGISTRANT 8
_____________________________________________________________________________________
ADDRESS
_____________________________________________________________________________________
CITY STATE ZIP CODE
_____________________________________________________________________________________
TELEPHONE INCLUDE AREA CODE
_____________________________________________________________________________________
E-MAIL ADDRESS
_____________________________________________________________________________________
SPECIAL DIETARY NEEDS
CONFERENCE FEES*
Please note how many registrants will be attending each event:
____ x $175 Conference Fee (April 21-22)
____ x $35 Conference Dinner (April 21)
TOTAL ENCLOSED: $ ____________
Make checks payable to Syracuse University
Registration deadline is April 14 or until program is full. Refund deadline is April 13.
PLEASE INDICATE BELOW ANY DISABILITY-RELATED ACCOMMODATIONS THAT YOU MAY REQUIRE SUCH AS SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS, ALTERNATE FORMAT OF STANDARD PRINTED MATERIALS, ACCESSIBILITY NEEDS OR OTHER ASSISTANCE.
*CONFERENCE FEE INCLUDES ALL PROGRAM MATERIALS, CONFERENCE BREAK REFRESHMENTS, AND DISCOUNTED PARKING. FEES ARE PER PERSON. GROUP DISCOUNTS ARE AVAILABLE.
MAIL OR FAX REGISTRATION TO:
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
250 HUNTINGTON HALL, SYRACUSE, NY 13244-2340
PHONE 315-443-4696, FAX 315-443-5845
QUESTIONS? CALL 315-443-4696 OR VISIT HTTP://SOEWEB.SYR.EDU
Directions to Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel and Conference Center
From East or West, take New York State Thruway (Interstate 90) to Exit 36, Interstate 81 South. Take Interstate 81 South to Exit 18 (Adams/Harrison Streets). Stay in left exit lane and follow signs to Adams Street. Turn left onto Adams Street and proceed up the hill to University Avenue (fourth traffic light). Turn right on University Avenue and the Sheraton will be on the second block to the left. A parking garage is attached to the hotel.
From North or South, take Interstate 81 to Exit 18 (Adams/Harrison Streets), stay in left exit lane and follow signs to Adams Street. Turn left onto Adams Street and proceed up the hill to University Avenue (fourth traffic light). Turn right on University Avenue and the Sheraton will be on the second block to the left.
Suggested Accommodations
Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel and Conference Center, 801 University Avenue, Telephone: 315-475-3000. The hotel is fully accessible. A limited number of special-rate rooms are available. Inquire early, and please identify yourself as a conference participant.