Brian Kerr

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Annual UMInDS Spring Conference
April 4, 2008 Pendleton Room Michigan Union

Disability and War

1:00 pm Poster Session by UM Students and Faculty

2:00 pm Panel: Disability at War

• Rick Briggs, Brain Injury Association of Michigan “Traumtic Brain Injury — The Signature Wound of the War on Terror”
• Sally Chivers, University of Trent “Disabled Veterans Soldier On: Canadians Coming Home from Afghanistan”
• Nina Berman, Documentary Photographer “Purple Hearts“

3:30 pm Coffee Break and Poster Session Continued

4:00 pm Keynote Address Sharon Snyder and David Mitchell
U Illinois Chicago/ Temple University
“The Social Romance of Reintegration: Returning Veterans Films and the Forging of U.S. Disability Collectives”

Co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature
For information contact Carrie Baker at 734 647-6251 or mcarrie@umich.edu