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The Disability History Association is now an Affiliated Society with the American Historical Association. The DHA is sponsoring or co-sponsoring four sessions at the AHA meeting in San Diego, CA, January 7-10, 2010. Thursday, Jan. 7, 3-5 p.m. Rethinking American Disability Movement History Chair: Penny Richards "American Ideologies of Disease, Disability, and Charity: Clashing Late-Twentieth-Century Perspectives," Paul K. Longmore "Sweet Land of Disability: the 1977 Occupation of the HEW Offices and the American Stage" Victoria Lewis "Disability, Solidarity, and the Black Power of 504" Susan Schweik Friday, Jan. 8, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Disability in a Global Perspective Chair: Michael Davidson "Constructing Legal Definitions of Physical Difference and Disability in Fifteenth-Century Mamluk Cairo and Damascus" Kristina Richardson "Does God Hear Silent Prayers? Deafness in Ottoman Syria" Sara Scalenghe "Using Disability to Rethink the Nature of Identity in Modern America" Jeffrey A. Brune Friday, Jan. 8, 2:30-4:30 p.m. Constructing a National Body: Disability, Race, and Gender in the United States Chair: Steven Noll "Intellect, Feeblemindedness,and Civic Fitness" Anna Stubblefield "Diagnosing Defectives: Eugenic Fieldwork in the United States, 1910-24" Sara A. Vogt "'Salvaging Human Wastage for the Great Industrial Army': Race, Rehabilitation, and the Federal Board for Vocational Education, 1917-24" Paul R. D. Lawrie Comment: Michael A. Rembis Saturday, Jan, 9, 2:30-4:30 p.m. Reclaiming the Disabled Subjects in Historical Research and Representation Chair: Alice R. Wexler "Interpreting and Archiving Mad People's History" Geoffrey Reaume "Materialism and the 'Disabled Subject' in Disability History" Rachel Gorman "Mother Made her Mad: 'Mother-Blaming' and the Pathologization of Female Juvenile Delinquents in the Twentieth-Century United States" Michael A. Rembis Comment: Susan Burch
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