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Nicole Fleetwood Colloquium

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October 18, 2017
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Scott Laboratory, Room N0050 | University Hall 386B

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Add to Calendar 2017-10-18 15:30:00 2017-10-18 17:00:00 Nicole Fleetwood Colloquium Nicole Fleetwood is a professor of Rutgers University's American Studies department and the former director of the university's Institute for Research on Women. She specializes in subjects such as visual culture, media studies, black cultural studies, gender theory, ethnography and culture and technology studies. She is the author of Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness (University of Chicago Press, 2011), and has written several articles that have appeared in places such as African American Review, American Quarterly, and Public Culture. Professor Fleetwood will be visiting the OSU campus to give her lecture, titled "Prison Abolitionism, Feminist Pedagogies, and the Politics of Prison Art." She will be talking about the topics of art and mass incarceration as discussed in her forthcoming book, Marking Time: Prison Art and Public Culture, which presents a range of art made in U.S. prisons, in collaboration with nonprofit groups and non-incarcerated artists, and as socially engaged public art works that address mass incarceration. Invested in a feminist abolitionist framework, she considers some of the gender dynamics, tensions, debates, and practices that emerge in artistic collaborations between incarcerated and non-incarcerated people.        This lecture will be held on Wednesday, October 18th at 3:30pm in Scott Laboratory N0050. There will be a graduate workshop with our guest on the following Thursday, October 19th at 11:30am in University Hall 386B. Graduate students from all disciplines are welcome. Please RSVP by Monday, October 16th, with Elysse Jones in the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies (jones.6187@osu.edu). Space is limited. Please join us for the event and in welcoming Professor Fleetwood to campus! This event is sponsored by the Humanities and Arts Discovery Theme Project on Transnational Black Citizenship, the Department of African American and African Studies, and the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Scott Laboratory, Room N0050 | University Hall 386B Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies wgss@osu.edu America/New_York public
October 19, 2017
11:30AM - 1:30PM
Scott Laboratory, Room N0050 | University Hall 386B

Date Range
Add to Calendar 2017-10-19 11:30:00 2017-10-19 13:30:00 Nicole Fleetwood Colloquium Nicole Fleetwood is a professor of Rutgers University's American Studies department and the former director of the university's Institute for Research on Women. She specializes in subjects such as visual culture, media studies, black cultural studies, gender theory, ethnography and culture and technology studies. She is the author of Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness (University of Chicago Press, 2011), and has written several articles that have appeared in places such as African American Review, American Quarterly, and Public Culture. Professor Fleetwood will be visiting the OSU campus to give her lecture, titled "Prison Abolitionism, Feminist Pedagogies, and the Politics of Prison Art." She will be talking about the topics of art and mass incarceration as discussed in her forthcoming book, Marking Time: Prison Art and Public Culture, which presents a range of art made in U.S. prisons, in collaboration with nonprofit groups and non-incarcerated artists, and as socially engaged public art works that address mass incarceration. Invested in a feminist abolitionist framework, she considers some of the gender dynamics, tensions, debates, and practices that emerge in artistic collaborations between incarcerated and non-incarcerated people.        This lecture will be held on Wednesday, October 18th at 3:30pm in Scott Laboratory N0050. There will be a graduate workshop with our guest on the following Thursday, October 19th at 11:30am in University Hall 386B. Graduate students from all disciplines are welcome. Please RSVP by Monday, October 16th, with Elysse Jones in the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies (jones.6187@osu.edu). Space is limited. Please join us for the event and in welcoming Professor Fleetwood to campus! This event is sponsored by the Humanities and Arts Discovery Theme Project on Transnational Black Citizenship, the Department of African American and African Studies, and the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Scott Laboratory, Room N0050 | University Hall 386B Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies wgss@osu.edu America/New_York public

Nicole Fleetwood is a professor of Rutgers University's American Studies department and the former director of the university's Institute for Research on Women. She specializes in subjects such as visual culture, media studies, black cultural studies, gender theory, ethnography and culture and technology studies. She is the author of Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness (University of Chicago Press, 2011), and has written several articles that have appeared in places such as African American Review, American Quarterly, and Public Culture.

Professor Fleetwood will be visiting the OSU campus to give her lecture, titled "Prison Abolitionism, Feminist Pedagogies, and the Politics of Prison Art." She will be talking about the topics of art and mass incarceration as discussed in her forthcoming book, Marking Time: Prison Art and Public Culture, which presents a range of art made in U.S. prisons, in collaboration with nonprofit groups and non-incarcerated artists, and as socially engaged public art works that address mass incarceration. Invested in a feminist abolitionist framework, she considers some of the gender dynamics, tensions, debates, and practices that emerge in artistic collaborations between incarcerated and non-incarcerated people.

 

A table set with unique and colorful dinnerware and place mats with names on each.

 

Words "Prison is a Feminist Issue" made with pictures of prisons and incarcerated women.
Picture credit: Art and Resistance Through Education (ARTE)

  

This lecture will be held on Wednesday, October 18th at 3:30pm in Scott Laboratory N0050. There will be a graduate workshop with our guest on the following Thursday, October 19th at 11:30am in University Hall 386B. Graduate students from all disciplines are welcome. Please RSVP by Monday, October 16th, with Elysse Jones in the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies (jones.6187@osu.edu). Space is limited.

Please join us for the event and in welcoming Professor Fleetwood to campus!

This event is sponsored by the Humanities and Arts Discovery Theme Project on Transnational Black Citizenship, the Department of African American and African Studies, and the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies.