Tag: Erica Kaufman

In conversation with Erica Kaufman — rescheduled

We have had to re-schedule our Q&A with Erica Kaufman to April 2, 2026.

Taking inspiration from Adrienne Rich, Erica will be talking with us about her own insights into the “urgency of language (language made by humans)”; how this relates to pedagogical practices we use to democratize the classroom and empower students to take ownership over their own education; and how these interventions might take different forms, just as poetry engages language differently from other forms of writing.

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Poets (and educators) of the world unite!

Poetry has the capacity to remind us of something we are forbidden to see. A forgotten future: a still uncreated site whose moral architecture is founded not on ownership and dispossession, the subjection of women, outcast and tribe, but on the continuous redefining of freedom — that word now held under house arrest by the rhetoric of the ‘free’ market. This on-going future, written off over and over, is still within view. All over the world its paths are being rediscovered and reinvented.

Adrienne Rich, ‘Legislators of the World’, 1977

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In conversation with Erica Kaufman

Here at the Critical Pedagogies Project, we are very pleased to let you know that this month, on March 26th, we will be hosting Erica Kaufman, the poet, educator, and Director of the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College, US.

Erica was one of the co-editors of the archival collection ‘What we are part of’: Teaching at CUNY, 1968-1974, which we discussed during last term’s meeting. She will join us to continue our conversations on what criticality means in the age of artifical intelligence. As we reflected on Adrienne Rich’s words through a writing loop exercise in December, many of us explored our own histories in education and the disrupted relationships to writing we continue to experience as educators and researchers. We hope to see many more of you at the March 26th meeting to add your reflections, questions, and (re)solutions to the ongoing conversation.

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