Disability Justice in the Archives
Time: March 29, 2018, 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Location: Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, Room 114 Bird Library
Susan Schweik (University of California, Berkeley)
Examining the history of Carrie Buck (of the infamous 1927 Supreme Court decision, Buck v. Bell), Schweik highlights contested issues related to re/presenting Carrie Buck and her life as a so-called feebleminded woman. From Oliver Wendell Holmes’ notorious decree that “Three generations of imbeciles are enough,” to trans-disability representations in the made-for-TV movie starring Marlee Matlin, a Deaf actor, to recent performances of Buck by transgender actors, Buck has proven a more malleable figure than essentialist understandings might suggest. Beginning with the politics and ethics of remembering Buck, Schweik explores some archives made and curated by people who were subjected to institutionalization in the first half of the twentieth century. How do we read and find these “impermanent records?"
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