Seminar
Seminar 10: Reducing Harm (As Prompt, As Practice)
Feb 12, 2024
3:00–4:30pm ET
Online
Taking harm reduction as an expansive and diverse set of practices and principles, this seminar brings together theorists and practitioners to address harm reduction’s role in minimizing the risk of lethal or dangerous drug use and sexual activity, imagining abolition, and unmaking the correctional logics inherent in systems of criminalization, carcerality, and racism. Launching the final semester of the Correction* Seminar Series, this conversation unpacks practices of harm reduction that challenge structures of power and how they can prompt collective liberation through the care for our own and each other’s bodies.
The conversation features Imani Mason Jordan, interdisciplinary writer, artist, editor and curator, and is moderated by co-convener Tamara Oyola-Santiago, Director of Wellness and Health Promotion at Student Health Services at The New School. This seminar builds on Correction* Seminar 3: Correcting Mistaken Ideas: Revisiting the People’s Program at Lincoln Hospital with acupuncturist Walter Bosque as part of a series of events on the theme of harm reduction, as practice and policy, convened between The New School’s Vera List Center for Art and Politics and Student Health Services.
A second part to the program hosted on campus by Student Health Services will be announced later this spring.
The twelve-part Correction* Seminar Series is structured as an open curriculum and presented from September 2022 through May 2024. Led by Vera List Center faculty and staff, each monthly seminar in this two-year series explores the perils and potentials of the political, social, and metaphorical implications of “correction.” Bridging theory and practice, Correction* unfolds through three distinct research clusters every semester set to guide our joint investigation into Restitution, the Body, and Carcerality. It is presented as part of the Barbara Jordan Lectures: The State of Democracy series.
The Vera List Center is committed to ensuring that our programs are accessible to and inclusive of all. Please let us know when registering if you need any accommodations.
The Spring 2024 programs of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics are generously supported by members of the Vera List Center Board, other individual donors, and the following institutional donors:
The Boris Lurie Art Foundation and the Schaina and Josephina Lurje Memorial Foundation
The Dayton Foundation
Mellon Foundation
Native Arts and Cultures Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
New York State Council on the Arts
Terra Foundation for American Art
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Seminar Overview
Correction* Seminar Series
Sep 26, 2022–May 6, 2024
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Seminar 1: Ashes to Artifact: Cultural Death, Repair, and Restitution of the Benin Bronzes
Sep 26, 2022
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Seminar 2: Virus Becoming
Nov 7, 2022
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Seminar 3: Correcting Mistaken Ideas: Revisiting the People’s Program at Lincoln Hospital with Walter Bosque
Feb 13, 2023
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Seminar 4: Becoming One: The University Between Labor Struggles and Communities of Care
Feb 27, 2023
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Seminar 5: Lupus as an Operating System
Apr 10, 2023
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Seminar 6: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization: Rematriation and Preservation
May 1, 2023
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Seminar 7: Bring into Order: School(ing) as a War of Correction
Sep 18, 2023
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Seminar 8: “Hader Halal” (With Regard to Presence)
Nov 13, 2023
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Seminar 9: Of Bodies and Sound
Dec 18, 2023
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Seminar 11: Many Returns
Mar 4, 2024
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Seminar 12: Strike That
