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  • Reasonable People
    A Memoir of Autism and Adoption
    by Ralph James Savarese
  • The Lyric Body
    Special Double Issue of the Seneca Review
    Edited by Stephen Kuusisto and Ralph James Savarese
  • Papa, PhD
    Essays on Fatherhood by Men in the Academy
    Edited by Mary Ruth Marotte, Paige Martin Reynolds, and Ralph James Savarese
  • Autism and the Concept of Neurodiversity
    Disabilities Studies Quarterly
    Edited by Emily Thornton Savarese and Ralph James Savarese
NOV
19
2012
Event: AWARES Conference on Autism

On-line, Dialogue with the Experts

http://www.awares.org/conferences/

NOV
27
2012
Event: Sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute and the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University.

Roundtable Conversation with Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, and Ralph James Savarese

Smith Warehouse, 12-1:30.

SEP
19
2012
Event: Sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute and the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University.

What Some Autistics Can Teach Us About Poetry: A Neurocosmopolitan Approach

Perkins Library, Room 217, 4:30.

MAY
31
2013
Event: Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute Annual Conference, Boston.

Keynote Address

Time and place t.b.a.

JUN
27
2013
Event: International Conference on Narrative, Manchester, England.

Panel with Lisa Zunshine

Time and place t.b.a.

May 1st, 2012

Ralph wins Humanities Writ Large Fellowship at Duke University’s Institute for Brain Science

He will join its neurohumanities research group for the academic year 2012-2013.

May 1st, 2012

Ralph wins NEH Summer Stipend for neuropoetics book

April 26th, 2012

DJ graduates from Grinnell High School with Highest Honors

April 23rd, 2012

DJ Wins “Uncommon Student” Award

On Saturday, October 9, 2010, DJ was selected by the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library as one of three winners of the statewide “Uncommon Student” award for his community service project “Plotting Hope: Giving Voice to Non-speaking People.” He received $1000 in cash and a $5000 scholarship for college.

You can read more about the ceremony and the students honored in an article by the Des Moines Register’s Kyle Munson.