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Misfitting Humanities Symposium Lecture: "Family Misfits in the Frankenstein Ballet"
Apr 4, 2019
04:15 PM - 05:30 PM
Iowa City Public Library, Room A
123 South Linn Street, Iowa City, IA 52240
On April 4-6, the 2019 Obermann Humanities Symposium, Misfitting: Disability Broadly Considered, will bring leading disability scholars from diverse disciplines to discuss the relevance and importance of disability to their respective fields. The symposium will consider the pervasive (though often unnoticed) influence of disability on and in the performing, visual, and literary arts, in philosophy and religion, in political and economic life, and in everyday language, as we explore when and how minds and bodies “misfit.”
Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor Rosemarie Garland-Thomson will be delivering the keynote of the symposium, entitled "Family Misfits in the Frankenstein Ballet." Faculty Symposium co-organizer Douglas Baynton (History) will be introducing the address.
Abstract: The balletic adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel presents a drama of a parent’s refusal to accord full moral personhood to an unexpected and unfamiliar child who enters a family in an unorthodox way.
View the complete schedule, as well as speaker bios and resources at https://misfittingsymposium.com/.
Co-sponsored by the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, the Ida Beam Visiting Professorships Program, the UI Campus Activities Board, and the UI School of Social Work.
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