Doctoral Programme Annual Lecture (PhD Psychosocial Studies, PhD Sociology and PhD Gender and Sexuality)
When:
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Venue:
Online
In this talk, Professor Pickens will think through ideological access, specifically how public discussions of Blackness and Disability could be better shaped. Professor Pickens will explain several interpretive strategies that create spaces for Black disabled folks.
The lecture will be followed by Q&A led by the doctoral students in the Department of Psychosocial Studies.
Professor Therí A. Pickens is Professor of English, and Chair, Africana (formerly African American Studies), Bates College, USA. Professor Pickens is Editor, Special Issue of College Language Association Journal, ‘Blackness and Disability: This. Is. The. Remix. or I Thought I Told You That We Won't Stop’ (2021); Author, Black Madness :: Mad Blackness (Duke 2019); Editor, Arab American Aesthetics (Routledge 2018); Editor, Special Issue of African American Review on Blackness and Disability (2017) and Author, New Body Politics (Routledge 2014). You can find her public scholarship in Ms. Magazine, The Root, and Medium (@tpickens). She is also on Twitter (@TAPPhD) and at www.tpickens.org.
Contact name:
Psychosocial Department Admin Team