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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO ,SAN ANTONIO, TX.
Conference site, 2017
St. john's university, New YORK CITY, NY.
CONFERENCE SITE, 2018
IMPORTANT Updates:
2018 AAACS Annual Conference
will be in New York City, USA.
From ‘Hood’ to ‘High Line’:
Of Poetry, Protest, and the People
in Curriculum Studies
Wednesday, April 11-Friday, April 13
… the academy is a speed dating service
where there is no romance, no seduction,
just reduction and a stupefying trance
we need textual intercourse full of pleasure,
instead of this coitus interruptus that leaves us
desiccated, depleted, dry like a dean’s dirge
about branding, and random, never randy,
encounters with potential wealthy benefactors
we need to claim more, declaim more
exclaim more, proclaim more
we need to reclaim
the bold voices of poetry
our poetry needs to startle
our poetry needs to howl
…. who wants cosmetic curriculum
when the cosmos calls, a cacophony
chaos is not wild & random, instead
inimitably orderly & complex
cosmos & chaos dance
an Argentinian tango
moment by moment in the momentous
composing of living wholeness
like a poem is never closed & controlled
curriculum is emergent & startling
we are not sentenced to linear expression
sitting meekly at desks in tight uniforms
curriculum attends to the spaces between
letters & words & lines where poetry grows
with spell-binding delight in wild possibilities
leaning into love with tantalizing hope for the other
Selections from Carl Leggo