Programme

8.30–9.15 

Registration and coffee, 8th floor

9:15–9:30

Welcoming words: Room 822

9:30–11:00

Keynote 1: Room 822

Jennifer (Eisenhauer) Richardson: Writing and Creating while on the Schizophrenic Spectrum: An Autotheoretical Encounter with a Pedagogical Dilemma

11:00–11:30 Coffee

11:30–13:00

Keynote 2: Room 822

Kaisa Leka: “You know, you could also look normal if you’d just wear pants!”​

13:00–14:00 Lunch

14:00–15:15

Session 1a: Room 822

Panel session: Veronica Hicks, Lauren Stichter, Amanda Newman–Godfery: Voices in Art Education: A Movement Embracing Abilities and Identities of Disability

14:00–15:15

Session 1b, Poster sessions: Gallery Atski

Riikka Papunen: Performing with the Other

Sarah Swanson: Fostering Resiliency Through Art Education for Children with Severe Physical Disabilities

Kate Gugliotta: Oh, The Places You’ll Go! Public Art and Accessibility for All

Christina Lukac: Strategies and Adaptations in an Arts Program for Adults with Atypical Communication

15:15–16:00

Session 2

Coffee / Performance: Gallery Atski

Andy Best-Dunkley, Sanna Kuusisto, Annika Sarvela, Petri Sämpi: Dance of the Cosmos: a multimedia dance performance by differently-abled young people

16:00–17:30

Keynote 3: Room 822

Amanda Cachia: Disability Aesthetics: A Pedagogy for Teaching A Revisionist Art History 

17:45–19:00

Session 3, Movie night: Room 822 (with snacks)

Olivia Dreisinger: Disabled!

8.30–9.15

Registration and coffee, 5th floor, NODE Gallery

9:15–9:30

Welcome and schedule update: Room 5022

9:30–11:00

Session 4a: Room 5022

Kelly Gross: Representation, Re-presentation, and Representing through Graphic Novels

Lauren Stichter, Amanda Newman-Godfrey & Kate Gugliotta:Building a Mindset For Access(ability) and Art(ability): A Case Study in Art Teacher Education

Soula Marinoudi: Precarious teachers, disabled students: The perception of inclusive education in the Greek context

Session 4b: Room 5006

Mira Kallio-Tavin: Artistic agency, cultural participation and disability

Ligia Helena Ferreira Zamaro and Sidnei Martins: Sesc Sao Paulo: cultural citizenship exercises through accessibility

Maija Koivisto: Changes in the Finnish Deaf Performance Arts Since the 1950s

Session 4c: Room 5009

Hanna Lee: The Implications of a STEAM-based Art Curriculum on Students with EBD

Kathleen Boyle: How does technology in the classroom impact students with disabilities?

Rosangella Leote & Oliveira Hosana Celeste:  Assistive interfaces for arts: From diffusion to inclusion

11:00–11:30 Coffee​

11:30–13:00

Session 5a: Room 5022

Karen Rosenburg: Accessing the Arts Through Animal Therapy: How Animal Therapy can Assist in Successful Inclusionary Practices

Maria Sdrolia, Polyxeni Kaimara, Andreas Giannakoulopoulos and Ioannis Deliyannis: Digital Arts in Special Education: A potential bridge for Inclusion?

Chi-Jen Lee: The effect of using the home book of life story in mental illnesses

Session 5b: Room 5006

Sari Salovaara: The curvy path of a disabled artist

Päivi Lilja & Sami Helle: Lifelong learners or eternal students? – Different roles in the field of art, disability and education

Joana Monbaron & Alexander Ivanov: Disability, ableism, and the art world: reflections on the project “Tracings Out of Thin Air”

Session 5c: Room 5054

Andy Best-Dunkley: Social Empowerment through Dance and Media Performance

Rikke Gürgens Gjærum & Tine Skjold: A look at NUK ++. Research on circumpolar inclusive youth arts festival

Liisa Jaakonaho: Dancing, thinking and writing with intellectual disability: entangled relations and ethical tensions

13:00–14:00 Lunch

14:00–15:30

Session 6a: Room 5022

Anne Tarvainen: “Deaf Girl Singing Someone Like You”– Vocal Somaesthetic Perspective to Singing and Vocal Norms

Nina Stuhldrehe: When King Loot met King Ludd and King Crip joined the Rebecca Riots - Disability Studies and Neurodiversity Pride in times of artistic knowledge production and the “Bologna process” at art universities

Alexandra Allen: Developing an Arts Based Research Approach to Critical Disability Studies

Session 6b: Room 5006

Anne Chick: Multi-sensory desks: An inclusively designed and curated exhibition focusing on visually impaired visitors

Eeva Rantamo: Guided tours on arts and culture in simple language – The development of methods in a German-Finnish co-operation  

Jeremy L. Johnson & Lisa Johnson: Please Touch the Art

Session 6c: Room 5009

Kurukhetra Dip: Equity and Equality in Access to Higher Education: The Experiences of Students with Disabilities in an Indian University

Ashley Johnson & Molly Kelly:  Inclusive curricular design & development for the college classroom

Charles Peck & Carlyn Mueller: Finding Safety in Unexpected Places:  Teaching “(Dis)ability, Education and the Arts” Online

15:30–16:00​ Coffee

16:00–17:30

Session 7a: Room 5022

Nanna Kathrine Edvardsen: Dimensions of participation in integrated theatre

Erin Davenport: Rainclamation: How installation art can reclaim space, transform collective suffering into poetic resistance, and educate through accessible aesthetics

Therese Ignacio Bjørnaas: Catholic anthropology and Cognitive disability: Rational capacities as the definition of what it means to be human in the image of God

Session 7b: Room 5006

John Derby: Nonsuicidal Self­Injury Themes in Art

Molly Kelly: Towards a model of truly inclusive schooling: A case study of one American university inclusive teacher preparation program

Ashley Johnson: Overview of Inclusive College Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities in the United States

Session 7c: Room 5009

Kelsey M. Jones: Deficit-Thinking, Race, and Dis/ablement: ADSE Perspective on the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Olivia Dreisinger: Gimp Sue Gets the Girl: Disability in Twilight Fanfiction

Mikko Koivisto: Post-Horrorcore Rap Approaches to Disability, Violence, and Psychotherapy 

17:30–19:00 Conclusions: Room 5022