Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities residency begins
Time: March 20, 2018, 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Location: Dates/Times/Locations vary. See the listings below.
Susan Schweik (University of California, Berkeley)
This year's Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor is Susan Schweik. During her residency (March 19-30), Schweik engages students, faculty, and community members in various discussions and activities under an overarching theme of "Bodies of Evidence: Documenting/Representing Injustice, Confinement, and Incarceration."
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Tuesday, March 20, 4:30-6 p.m.
Welcome Reception for Susan Schweik
Goldstein Alumni & Faculty Center
Wednesday, March 21, 4:30-6 p.m.
Unfixed: How the Women of Glenwood Changed American IQ, and Why We Don't Know It
Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, Room 114 Bird Library
Friday, March 23, Noon-1:30 p.m.
Contested Ethics, Contesting Institutions: Dialogue on Interdisciplinary Research Practice
Peter Graham Scholar Commons, Room 114 Bird Library
Monday, March 26, 10:30-11:30 a.m
Meet the Scholar Coffee Hour
300 Tolley Humanities Building (Sainsbury Library)
Tuesday, March 27, 4-5:30p.m.
Here the Diaries End: Intellectual Disability and the Ends of Life Writing
Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, Room 114 Bird Library
Thursday, March 29, 4:30-6 p.m.
Disability Justice in the Archives
Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, Room 114 Bird Library
Friday, March 30, Noon-2 p.m.
The Poetics of Confinement: A Workshop
Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), Lemke Seminar Room, 6th floor, Bird Library
BIOGRAPHY: Susan Schweik is Professor of English at the University of California Berkeley, where she has worked since 1984. She is the author of The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public (NYU, 2009) and A Gulf So Deeply Cut: American Women Poets and the Second World War (1991) and is completing a book tentatively titled Unfixed: How the Women of Glenwood Changed American IQ, and Why We Don’t Know It. She served as Associate Dean of Arts and Humanities at UCB from 2007-2015 and has just returned to that position. She is a recipient of Berkeley’s Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence and its Distinguished Teaching Award, and the University of California’s Presidential Chair in Undergraduate Education. Schweik has been involved with the development of disability studies at Berkeley for over twenty years. She was co-coordinator of the Ed Roberts Fellowships in Disability Studies post-doctoral program at Berkeley (coordinated by the Institute for Urban and Regional Development). She is co-founder and co-director of Berkeley’s Disability Studies minor and has been very actively involved in the advanced Disability Studies Research Cluster in Berkeley’s Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society.
The 2018 Watson Professor residency is hosted by Beth Ferri (Professor of Inclusive Education and Disability Studies) and Michael Gill (Assistant Professor of Disability Studies) in the School of Education.
The Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professorship in the Humanities is a preeminent lectureship originally established by the Watson family to support on-campus residencies of prominent humanities scholars, writers, and artists.
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