Reminder: Guest Lecture by Kenny Fries on June 5

As part of the lecture series “Disability From The Inside Out: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Behinderung,” American memoirist and poet Kenny Fries is giving a talk on “The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory: Adaptation, Disability, and Difference.”

Kenny Fries is the author of three memoirs and several collections of poems, including Body, Remember: A Memoir, Desert Walking, and In the Gardens of Japan. He received the Creative Arts Fellowship from the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as grants from the DAAD, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and Toronto Arts Council. He is a teacher in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College.

When: Tuesday, June 5, 2018, 11:10-12:40 (3. DS)

Where: TU Dresden, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Wiener Str. 48, 002.

Admission is free; registration is not necessary.

The guest lecture is supported by the Gesellschaft von Freunden und Förderern der TU Dresden.

For more information on the lecture series, see the full program below.