Susan Schweik

Professor, Department of English, Associate Dean, Arts and Humanities

"Kicked to the Curb: Ugly Law Then and Now"

Jonathan Simon
Adrian A. Kragen Professor of Law, responding

Friday, November 30, 11:00 - 12:30 pm UC Berkeley School of Law Warren Room, 295 Boalt Hall
In this talk, Professor Susan Schweik will examine the city of Portland's sidewalk ordinance. She will discuss its relation to historical Ugly Laws, its framing of disability rights and homeless rights as antithetical, and an alternative history posed by the concrete utopia of sidewalk poetry.
Susan Schweik is Associate Dean of Arts and Humanities and a recipient of the Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence. She is the author of The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public (NYU, 2010), among many other works. A former Presidential Chair in Undergraduate Education for Disability Studies at U.C. Berkeley, she has been involved with the development of disability studies at Berkeley for fifteen years. She was co-coordinator of the Ed Roberts Fellowships in Disability Studies post-doctoral program at Berkeley. She is a recipient of Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award as well as a name sign from students at Gallaudet, see youtube.com/watch?v=r430KOg_nt8&feature=youtu.be&hd=1. For copies of the paper, please email Sean Hill, at shill@law.berkeley.edu. Sponsor: Law and Humanities Initiative at Berkeley Law.