{"id":1226,"date":"2018-05-29T14:21:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2018-05-29T14:23:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:23:15","slug":"reminder-guest-lecture-by-kenny-fries-on-june-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/2018\/05\/29\/reminder-guest-lecture-by-kenny-fries-on-june-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder: Guest Lecture by Kenny Fries on June 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/files\/2018\/05\/220px-Kenny_Fries_2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1231\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/files\/2018\/05\/220px-Kenny_Fries_2017-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/files\/2018\/05\/220px-Kenny_Fries_2017-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/files\/2018\/05\/220px-Kenny_Fries_2017.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As part of the lecture series\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333\">\u201cDisability From The Inside Out: Interdisziplin\u00e4re Perspektiven auf Behinderung,\u201d American memoirist and poet Kenny Fries is giving a talk on &#8220;The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin&#8217;s Theory: Adaptation, Disability, and Difference.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kenny Fries is the author of three memoirs and several collections of poems, including <em>Body, Remember<\/em>:<em>\u00a0A Memoir<\/em>, <em>Desert Walking<\/em>, and <em>In the Gardens of Japan. <\/em>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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>When: Tuesday, June 5, 2018, 11:10-12:40 (3. DS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where: TU Dresden, Institut f\u00fcr Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Wiener Str. 48, 002.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Admission is free; registration is not necessary.<\/p>\n<p>The guest lecture is supported by the Gesellschaft von Freunden und F\u00f6rderern der TU Dresden.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the lecture series, see the full program below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/files\/2018\/04\/disability-studies-poster-summer-2018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1198\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/files\/2018\/04\/disability-studies-poster-summer-2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/files\/2018\/04\/disability-studies-poster-summer-2018.jpg 828w, https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/files\/2018\/04\/disability-studies-poster-summer-2018-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/files\/2018\/04\/disability-studies-poster-summer-2018-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/files\/2018\/04\/disability-studies-poster-summer-2018-724x1024.jpg 724w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the lecture series\u00a0\u201cDisability From The Inside Out: Interdisziplin\u00e4re Perspektiven auf Behinderung,\u201d American memoirist and poet Kenny Fries is giving a talk on &#8220;The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin&#8217;s Theory: Adaptation, Disability, and Difference.&#8221; Kenny Fries is the author of three memoirs and several collections of poems, including Body, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","category-events","category-quick-overview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}