Here the Diaries End: Intellectual Disability and the Ends of Life Writing
Time: March 27, 2018, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Location: Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, Room 114 Bird Library
Susan Schweik (University of California, Berkeley)
Accounts of published representations of people with Down Syndrome, authored by people with Down Syndrome, usually start, wrongly, in the 1990s. However, scholars and activists at Syracuse University knew better: Douglas Biklen, Chris Kleiwer and Burton Blatt all wrote about the diaries of Paul Scott (published, with heavy editorial framing, in 1965). Schweik draws on Blatt’s A Basic Kit to Confront the Human Disposal Authority to re-read the final section of Scott’s diaries as protest literature and prison writing.
Computer Assisted Real-Time Translation (CART) will be provided at this public lecture.
This event is part of the Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professorship in the Humanities series with its theme for 2018: Bodies of Evidence: Documenting/Representing Injustice, Confinement and Incarceration.
Additional Supporters:
- School of Education
- David B. Falk College of Sport & Human Dynamics
- Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
- Center on Human Policy, Legacy Fund for Disability Studies and Human Policy
- Disability Cultural Center
- Department of English & Textual Studies
- Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition
- Cultural Foundations of Education (CFE)
- Department of Sociology
- Department of History
- Department of Women’s & Gender Studies
- SU Bookstore
- SU Libraries & Special Collections Research Center
Beth Ferri / Michael Gill, Inclusive Education & Disability Studies / Disability Studies, School of Education