SAA: Carceral Shakespeare Roundtable
Building from the conversations that started in the 2021 SAA workshop “Teaching Shakespeare in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” this roundtable aims to interrogate urgent questions of pedagogy and praxis that emerge when encountering Shakespeare in prison.
Short 10-minute flash-point papers from a range of vantage points (including teachers, librarians, program administrators, and theater practitioners) will take up timely issues in Shakespeare-oriented prison programs.
Questions the roundtable might address include:What are the most important considerations today for people reading, teaching, studying, directing, or performing Shakespeare in carceral settings? What expectations, both about Shakespeare and about incarcerated people, are imposed on these encounters? How are these expectations met, upended, or subverted? How does reading, performing, and studying Shakespeare reinforce existing inequities or other harms? What risks are entailed in introducing Shakespeare in prison?
Teaching Shakespeare in a Women's Prison
Truly Free: Mass Incarceration, Prison Education , and Carceral Justice
Sponsored by the Center for Humanities in an Urban Environment
Florida International University
A Teach-in
March 28-30, 2023
Foraged: Kitchen Garden Herbaria Opening Reception
Please join us for the opening reception of Artist in Residence Madge Evers's exhibit of original work "Foraged: Kitchen Garden Herbaria". This collection explores multispecies collaborations through a series of cyanotype and mushroom spore prints.
Grounded Knowledge: Terroir
This 90-minute workshop invites participants to ask: how do we preserve terroir amid our changing climate conditions? Jointly led by the Center’s Artist in Residence, Andrea Caluori & evolutionary-ecologist, Dr. Elsa Petit (Stockbridge School of Agriculture, UMass), the workshop offers short readings, a hands-on cheese-making demonstration, and conversation about the traditions and practices that create terroir. Workshop enrollment is limited and pre-registration is required.
Mapping Terroir: Memory & Myth
Mapping Terroir: Memory & Myth, an artist exhibit by Andrea Caluori, explores connections across the Center’s rare book collection of early modern agricultural and husbandry manuals and contemporary cultures of farming today. The exhibit explores how myth and historical memory shape relationships between humans, animals, and plants, and thereby foster ideas of earthly terroir.
"Taming the Shrew: The Politics of Submission in Women’s Prison Education" Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
“Taming the Shrew: The Politics of Submission in Women’s Prison Education” explores the acts of punishment in Taming of the Shrew. This essay considers how Taming portrays tactics for subduing women, particularly when read alongside women who are living out such tactics inside prisons.
Image: 2 the taming of the shrew by penelope waits
SAA: Teaching Shakespeare in the Age of Mass Incarceration
This seminar examines the deployment of Shakespeare in prison classrooms and programs to envision best practices for premodern pedagogy in a space of incarceration. Participants might: investigate the motivations and ambitions of bringing Shakespeare into prison; consider shifts in investments and approaches across men’s and women’s facilities; identify how political and institutional (educational and correctional) demands and limitations shape how and why we teach Shakespeare in prisons.
Grounded Knowledge: Preservation
A virtual workshop with local orchardist Matt Kaminsky of Gnarly Pippins & Dr. Marissa Nicosia, Cooking in the Archives.
This 90 minute workshop offers light readings, historical recipes, and a lively conversation about the preservation of trees and their fruits. Participants will work with apples, venture into orchards past and present, and explore the archives that link the Renaissance world and our own.
