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The Poetics of Confinement: A Workshop

Time: March 30, 2018, noon - 2 p.m.

Location: Lemke Seminar Room, SCRC, 6th floor, Bird Library

Susan Schweik (University of California, Berkeley)
Stephen Kuusisto (SU - Cultural Foundations of Education)

Drawing on the rich archival resources of the Special Collections Research Center, Susan Schweik and SU writer and professor Stephen Kuusisto lead a workshop featuring poetry that takes up or riffs off of archives of confinement and eugenic ideologies. Engaging work by Cecil Giscombe on the Tribe of Ishmael (who were once displayed by eugenicists as "America's Worst Family"), the Blunt Research Group's highly experimental The Work-Shy, and Molly McCully Brown's The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and the Feebleminded, participants will explore how poets contest various states of confinement and incarceration, and perhaps try their hands themselves.

Space is limited; please RSVP by 3/23/18 to baferri@syr.edu, include any accommodations requests.


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.


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Beth Ferri / Michael Gill, Inclusive Education & Disability Studies / Disability Studies, School of Education