{"id":356,"date":"2021-04-03T18:55:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T18:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ada30\/?page_id=356"},"modified":"2021-07-07T20:10:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T20:10:30","slug":"closing-keynote","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ada30\/closing-keynote\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing Keynote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:30% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3924\/files\/2021\/04\/Press-Photo_-Dr.-Pickens-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Ther\u00ed Alyce Pickens. She is wearing dark rimmed glasses, hoop earrings, and bright pink lipstick. She is also wearing a pink sweater and a gold ring on her middle finger. \" class=\"wp-image-348 size-large\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3924\/files\/2021\/04\/Press-Photo_-Dr.-Pickens-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3924\/files\/2021\/04\/Press-Photo_-Dr.-Pickens-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3924\/files\/2021\/04\/Press-Photo_-Dr.-Pickens-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3924\/files\/2021\/04\/Press-Photo_-Dr.-Pickens-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3924\/files\/2021\/04\/Press-Photo_-Dr.-Pickens.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\">\u201cAfter Almost 100 Days of Biden: Race, Disability,&nbsp;and A Head\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">by Dr. Ther\u00ed Alyce Pickens<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong>May 27<sup>th<\/sup>, 11:30 AM PDT<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In this talk, Dr. Pickens thinks through ideological access, specifically how public discussions of Blackness and Disability could be better shaped. She explains several interpretive strategies that create spaces for Black disabled folks. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">This session will be recorded.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tpickens.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr. Ther\u00ed Alyce Pickens<\/a><\/strong> is currently a Full Professor of English. Her research focuses on Arab American and African American literatures and cultures, Disability Studies, philosophy, and literary theory. She has just published her second monograph, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/black-madness-mad-blackness?viewby=author&amp;lastname=Pickens&amp;firstname=Ther%C3%AD&amp;middlename=Alyce&amp;displayName=&amp;sort=newest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Black Madness :: Mad Blackness,<\/em> (Duke University Press in 2019)<\/a> which explores the connection between Blackness and madness. She aims to architect a series of conversations that retool our theory and praxis for and about the Black mad and the mad Black. Her first book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/New-Body-Politics-Narrating-Arab-and-Black-Identity-in-the-Contemporary\/Pickens\/p\/book\/9780415735216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>New Body Politics: Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States<\/em> (Routledge, 2014)<\/a>, which asks: How does a story about embodied experience transform from mere anecdote to social and political critique? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAfter Almost 100 Days of Biden: Race, Disability,&nbsp;and A Head\u201d by Dr. Ther\u00ed Alyce Pickens May 27th, 11:30 AM PDT In this talk, Dr. Pickens thinks through ideological access, specifically how public discussions of Blackness and Disability could be better shaped. She explains several interpretive strategies that create spaces for Black disabled folks. 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