Susan schweik biography

Biography: Susan Schweik's last book was The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public.
Susan M. Schweik is Professor of English and co-director of the Disability Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley.
Schweik has been a visionary leader in disability studies at UC Berkeley for more than two decades.

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Susan Schweik

Invited lecture, “Unfixed: How the Women of Glenwood Changed American IQ, and Why We Don’t Know It,” Jeanette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professorship, Humanities Center, Syracuse University, March 21, 2018

Invited talk (as panel leader and respondent), “Contested Ethics, Contesting Institutions: Dialogue on Interdisciplinary Research Practice,” Jeanette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professorship, Humanities Center, Syracuse University, March 23, 2018

Invited lecture, “Here the Diaries End: Intellectual Disability and the Ends of Life Writing,” Jeanette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professorship, Humanities Center, Syracuse University, March 27, 2018

Invited introductory remarks, “Rhizophora” (film showing on Agent Orange and performance in Vietnam), Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, Nov 5, 2017I

Invited speaker, "Like, A Really Smart Person: The Archives of Intelligence and the Work of the Humanities, " FRIAS Conference on Literature, Culture, and the Work of the Humanities, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, July 19, 2017

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Susan Schweik Disability and the Normal Body of the (Native

Susan Schweik Disability and the Normal Body of the (Native) Citizen CITIZEN ABLE it is not surprising that in margaret somers’ influential exploration of Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness, and the Right to Have Rights (2008), the verb “disable” shows up repeatedly in contexts like this: “My goal is to identify the processes and relationships that support or disable democratic citizenship regimes” (2008: xvi). Something always seems to be disabling democratic citizenship. Something always seems to be disabling the right to have rights. Often that something takes the embodied form of a “literal” disabled person. Somers’ use of “disable” is of course simply metaphorical. But I aim to take that word “disabled” seriously, placing disability directly in relation to some of the social, economic, institutional, and normative conditions that “account for varying genealogies of citizenship and rights over time and space” in a U.S. context (Somers 2008: xvi). My topic here is the relation of the disabled body to t

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Disability Studies Trailblazer Susan Schweik in Residence March 19-30

The Syracuse University Humanities Center will host a visit by renowned disability studies scholar Susan Schweik.

Susan Schweik

Known for her innovative work at the intersection of disability studies, literature, feminist theory and civil rights history, Schweik is the 2018 Jeanette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities. The overarching focus of her residency is “Bodies of Evidence: Documenting/Representing Injustice, Confinement and Incarceration.” From March 19-30, she will participate in lectures, discussions and seminars on the Syracuse campus.

All events are free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Humanities Center in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) at 315.443.7192, or visit humcenter.syr.edu.

Schweik is associate dean of arts and humanities and professor of English at the University of California (UC), Berkeley.

“We are honored to welcome Susan Schweik as this spring’s Watson Professor,” says Vivian May, director of the Humanities Center and