Seminar
Seminar 5: Lupus as an Operating System
Apr 10, 2023
6:00–7:30pm ET
Online
Poet Cyrée Jarelle Johnson explores the way anti-Blackness, trauma, and environmental degradation converge to create bodies that internalize overcorrection, resulting in disablement, debility, and disability. Viewing systemic disabilities through the lens of cyborg studies, Johnson uses their background in library and information science to consider the role overcorrection and planned obsolescence play in contemporary American culture.
Cyrée Jarelle Johnson is a poet from Piscataway, New Jersey. He is the author of SLINGSHOT (Nightboat Books, 2019), winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. Johnson was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and served as the inaugural poet-in-residence at the Brooklyn Public Library. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Apogee, Foglifter, WUSSY, and Atmos among other publications. WATCHNIGHT, his forthcoming book of poetry, considers ancestry as history in the context of the Great Black Migration of the 20th century, familial estrangement, and queer family. He is a 2023 National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing Fellow.
Correction* Seminar Series
A series of twelve seminars, Correction* 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 2023 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 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
The Boris Lurie Art Foundation and the Schaina and Josephina Lurje Memorial Foundation
Bridge Philanthropic Consulting
The Dayton Foundation
The Ford Foundation
Italian Council
The Kettering Fund
Mellon Foundation
The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation
and Pryor Cashman LLP
We also gratefully acknowledge the support of The New School, our academic home.
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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 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 10: Reducing Harm (As Prompt, As Practice)
Feb 12, 2024
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Seminar 11: Many Returns
