Self-Governing Prison Communities: Radical Alternatives to Punitive Detention
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Online Event
9:00 am – 10:30 am EST/GMT-5
9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna9:00 am – 10:30 am EST/GMT-5
The Consortium for Liberal Arts in Prison, in partnership with OSUN and Incarceration Nations Network, invites individuals at member institutions to the fifth BPI Global Initiatives Virtual Lecture with Sacha Darke on “Self-Governing Prison Communities: Radical Alternatives to Punitive Detention.”
Sacha Darke is Reader in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences of the University of Westminster (London). His main research areas are Brazilian prisons and convict criminology. He is author of Conviviality and Survival: Co-Producing Brazilian Prison Order (Palgrave, 2018) and co-editor of Carceral Communities in Latin America. Troubling Prison Worlds in the 21st Century (Palgrave, 2021).
This lecture series is designed for a global community of practitioners in different higher education contexts in prisons and carceral spaces around the world. In ten virtual monthly sessions, different scholars will introduce attendees to several alternative experiences in prisons. The sessions will be an hour and a half long, and each session will end with Q&A. English-Spanish simultaneous interpretation will be available in all the sessions.
The BPI Global Initiatives Virtual Lecture Series runs until June 2023.
Register to attend via Zoom
For more information, call 845-758-6822,
or visit https://bpi-bard-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xtjz94T1TvOm3pb51N2Sug.
Time: 9:00 am – 10:30 am EST/GMT-5
Location: Online Event