The Q&A and I: Agency and Self-Expression in the Survey Era

What is agency? To what extent does it manifest as the expression of internal will or as a response to external circumstances? This salon—part talk, part conversation—will explore these questions through two disciplinary contexts that are not often considered together: sociology and poetry, or more specifically, the sociological survey and lyric poetry. While we might think of the lyric as a pre-eminent space of authentic self-expression that issues from something “inside” an individual, and the survey as a technology that constructs selves through questions that impose a set of “outside” constraints on what individuals express, this salon will consider thinkers and poems from the early-mid 20th century that trouble this binary.

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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Hegeman 204A

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