Conference Presentations

Conference Presentations     

  • Presented “Transnational Territory of Solidarity” with Efrat Gold, Hemachandran Kara & Nicole Schott as part of the panel “Imagining and Enacting Transnational Disability Studies” on May 25th, 2022, at the Centre for Global Disability Studies, University of Toronto, Scarborough.

     

  • Presented “Interdependence and Care in Prison” with Jamie Utphall and D’Arcee C. Neal as part of the panel “Cripping Chronology” in the 2022 Conference: Disability at The Intersection Of History, Culture, Religion, Gender, and Health at Marquette University on March 4, 2022.

     

  • Presented “Informal Infrastructures of Care in the World: Disability Praxis and Archiving” with Davy knittle, Declan Gould, Laura Westengard, Jess Waggoner, Libbie Rifkin, Kirsten Lee, Hyoseol Ha, and Sarah Orsak as part of the panel “Disability, Race, and the Politics of Care” in the MLA 2022 Convention (virtual), in Washington DC on Jan 8, 2022.

     

  • Presented a paper workshop entitled “Madness Inside a Revolution” at Society for Disability Studies Conference (virtual), on April 18, 2021

     

  • Presented a paper workshop entitled, “Digital Archive/Informal Infrastructures of Care in the World” with Efrat Gold, Hemachandran Karah, Mary Jean Hande at Society for Disability Studies Conference (virtual) on April 17, 2021

     

  • Presented “Madness, Response-ability Against Crude Power” at Disability Summit, University of Maryland, President’s Commission on Disability Issues as part of the panel, “Activism around the Globe”, (virtual) on April 14, 2021

     

  • Presented “Whose Disability (Studies)? Defetishizing Disablement of the Iranian Survivors of the Iran-Iraq War by (Re)Telling their Resilient Narratives of Survival” as part of the panel, “Disability, Catastrophe, and Society in Historical Context” (virtual) at the Ohio Academy of History on March 26, 2021

     

  • Presented “Transnational Disabling Regime” at Digital Dialogue Two | Disability, Sexuality and Human Rights as part of the Society of Fellows Digital Dialogues series (virtual) at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, on October 21, 2020

    Presented “Disability and State Violence” at the Society of Fellows Cross-Disciplinary Workshop for Graduate Students on Disability and State Violence (virtual) at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, on October 20, 2020

     

  • Presented “Disability and State Violence” at the Society of Fellows Cross-Disciplinary Workshop for Graduate Students on Disability and State Violence (virtual) at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, on October 11, 2020

  • Presented “Applying the Transnational Model of Disability to the Case of Acid Attacks” at Society for Disability Studies’ Annual Conference at Ohio State University, (virtual) Columbus, Ohio on April 4-7, 2020
  • Presented “Disabled Upon Arrival to a Colonized Future: Defetishizing Disablement through Resisting Disabling States — a Materiel Critique” with Preeti Singh, Yanar Hashlamon, Kelsey Paige Busby in a Discussion entitled, at Society for Disability Studies’ Annual Conference at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio on April 7-9, 2019
  • Presented “Fetishization of Disability by Disability Studies” at the 2019 Critical Disability Studies Students Association Annual Conference at York University’s Keele campus in Toronto on April 28, 2019
  • Presented “Second Generation of Witnesses, Past-to-present Ideology of Harm, and Intergenerational Trauma in Iranian Diaspora” at the “Denial: The Final Stage of Genocide: First International Conference of the Center for Holocaust, Genocide & Human Rights Studies,” at University of North Carolina in Charlotte’s Center City Campus on April 13-14, 2019 Facilitated the “Disability and Im/Mobility” panel in the Migration Studies Symposium to be held on March 1st, 2019 at the Ohio State University
  • Presented “A Step toward a Conceptualization of Transnational Disability Model: Engaging the Dialectics of Geopolitics, “Third World,” and Imperialism” in the Disability Consciousness, Imaginaries, and Struggles: Transnational Narratives of Becoming and Remaining Disabledpanelat the National Women’s Studies Association Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, Nov 10,2018
  • Presented “Whose Disability? Rethinking Disability and Disablement in the Iranian and Kurdish Women War Survivors” in the Gender, disability, and SexualityPanel at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, Nov 8,2018
  • Presented “A Marxist Analysis of War As A Disability-Production Mechanism: Imperialism, Nationalism, and Processes of Disablement in the Iranian and Kurdish War Survivors” in Historical-Materialism: The Great Transition: Setting the Stage for a Post-Capitalist Society@ Université du Québec à Montréal, Québec, Canada, 18th May2018
  • Presented “Processes and Relations of Disablement After the Iran-Iraq War in Iran and Iraqi Kurdistan” in Kurdish Politics Conference @ the Department of Sociology of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, April 8, 2018
  • Presented “War and Disablement of Bodies” in the Composing Disability: Crip Politics and the Crisis of Culture Conference in the War, Empire, and Conflict Panel @ the George Washington University, Washington DC, March 23, 2018
  • Presented “Marxist Reading of Disability: Fetishization of Disability in the Global Context, Exporting Democracy and War” with Mary Jean Hande, Liza Kim Jackson and Dr. Rachel Gorman in the Disability and Collectivity panel @ Historical-Materialism Toronto 2016, May 14th, York University, Toronto.
  • Presented “Fetishization of Disability in global contexts: Exporting Democracy and War” @ 2016Critical Disability Studies Student Association Conference, April 9 2016, York University, Toronto.
  • Presented “The Dialectic Between Disability and Race Constitution” @ CESA 2015 Conference: Sovereignties and Colonialisms: Resisting Racism, Extraction and Dispossession on April 30 – May 3, 2015, York University, Toronto.
  • Presented “Bodies in Motion and Motions in Bodies; Dialectic of Race, Space, Disability and Knowledge” co-authored with Hodan Ahmed Mohamed and Berivan Sarikaya @ Critical Ethnic Studies Association 2015Conference:Sovereignties and Colonialisms: Resisting Racism, Extraction and Dispossession, April 30 – May 3,2015, York University, Toronto.
  • Presented ‘Able-nationalism in the Western world’ in Queer Investments in Capital and Globalizations @ at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA on March 6-8,2014.
  • Presented ‘Able-nationalism and disability in The Canadian context through a borderless narrative aiming to deconstruct Canadian immigration and citizenship boarders’ in Inclusion Day 2014: EVERY_BODY: Rethinking the Bodies that Belong @ York University, Toronto, Canada onJanuary 23, 2014
  • Presented ‘Abnormal in Many Ways’ @ CriticalJuncture: Exploring the intersections of race, gender and disabilityFriday, March 15-Saturday, March 16, 2014, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.
  • Presented ‘Able-nationalism and Psych Apparatus’ @ National Association for Ethnic Studies, 42ndAnnual Conference “Research As Ceremony: Decolonizing Ethnic Studies” Mills College, the conference occurs from April 3-5,2014, in Oakland, California, USA.
  • Presented “Securing the Nation: Adapting Diagnostic Labels and Labor for Citizenship and Immigration” @ Annual Conference of Women’s and Gender Studies Et Recherches Féministes (WGSRF) St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada on Sunday May 25 to Tuesday May 27, 2014.
  • Presented “My Subjective/Queer/Immigrant/Disabled/Marginalized Narrative” @ The State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, USA, Ethnography Conference on Friday, April 18th, 2014.
  • Presented “Disability in Intersection with Immigration” at the Critical Juncture Conference: Exploring the Intersection of Race, Gender and Disability held on March 22-23, 2013, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA @ http://criticaljunctureconference.wordpress.com/
  • Presented ‘Power In and Beyond Psychiatric Institutions: An Anti-racist Anti-Colonial Approach’ @ The Ninth Annual Critical Disability Studies Graduate Student Conference at York University, Toronto, Canada in April 2013
  • Presented ‘Immigration Inadmissibility in an Intersection with Disability’ @ Reclaiming Our Bodies and Minds Conference, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada on March 15-17,2013

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