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December 2015
A PLACE TO STAND
A PLACE TO STAND EVENT INFORMATION: Thursday, December 3, 2015 7:30pm sharp @ Kipps Bay IMAX 570 2nd Ave (@ 32/33rd St), New York City $15 tickets available: tinyurl.com/APTSevent A Place to Stand is a film screening, poetry reading and interactive dance experience highlighting the transformative creativity in spaces of incarceration. Featuring readings from poet-facilitators Kirya Traber and Najee Omar, who work within juvenile detention settings through Voices UnBroken, and a collective dance experience from Dances for Solidarity. Hosted by poet Caits Meissner, sharing…
Find out more »The Society of Fellows in the Humanities Presents “Teaching Contemporary Civilization in Prison”
Public Humanities Initiative Teaching Contemporary Civilization in Prison Thursday, December 3, 2015 12:15pm The Heyman Center, Common Room, Second Floor Sponsors Heyman Center for the Humanities Society of Fellows in the Humanities Joshua Dubler is Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Rochester and served as a post-doctoral fellow with the Society of Fellows in the Humanities from 2008-2011. Joshua earned his PhD in Religion from Princeton University. His dissertation was an ethnographic study of the chapel at Graterford…
Find out more »The Immigration Act of 1965: Book Launch and Conversation
Thursday, December 3, 2015 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. Columbia Law School Jerome Greene Hall, Case Lounge, 7th Fl 435 W 116th St, New York, NY 10027 The Center for the Study of Law and Culture invites you to attend “The Immigration Act of 1965,” a conversation celebrating therecent publication of “The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act: Legislating a New America.” The conversation will take place on December 3 at 4:00 p.m. in Case Lounge. Columbia Law School Visiting Professor Rose Villazor (LL.M., ’06)…
Find out more »Public Humanities Initiative Justice-in-Education Initiative Workshop: Teaching in Prison
TORONTO, ONTARIO: MARCH 8, 2013 – at Toronto Jail in Toronto, Ontario, March 8, 2013. (Tyler Anderson/National Post) (For Toronto story by Megan O’Toole) //NATIONAL POST STAFF PHOTO Public Humanities Initiative Justice-in-Education Initiative Workshop: Teaching in Prison Thursday, December 10, 2015 12:15PM The Heyman Center, Common Room This teaching workshop brings together faculty, graduate students, administrators and community members interested in teaching in prison and in prison education programs. Speakers discuss the classes and programs they lead and share their…
Find out more »Summit on Youth Education at Rikers Island
The Center for Justice and Create Forward are hosting a Summit on Youth Education at Rikers Island (and Horizons and Crossroads) The morning will include two panels and the afternoon will convene working meetings around several areas including social justice pedagogy, reentry support, orienting new educators and more. Livestreaming and Archived Video: https://livestream.com/CenterforJusticeatCU/SummitonYouthEdatRikers To Register https://summitonyoutheducationatrikers.eventbrite.com About the Summit When: Friday, December 4, 2015 from 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM (EST) Where: Columbia University School of Social Work –…
Find out more »The Confined Arts 3rd Edition
With a new narrative and a brilliant group of artist, The Confined Arts will be reinvigorating the platform once again. The 3rd Edition of The Confined Arts will be a 40-day exhibition with an opening weekend consisting of visual art, live poetry, motivational speaking, panel discussions, a screening, workshops and more. Creative voices will highlight a freshly recharged format at a much more refined location, while maintaining the powerful visual and performance pieces that have made this platform a unique medium to bring…
Find out more »Public Humanities Initiative Justice Poetry featuring the BreakBeat Poets
Justice-in-Education Initiative Wednesday, December 9, 2015 6:15 p.m. The Schapiro Center, Davis Auditorium An evening of justice poetry featuring the editors and contributor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop. Poets read from their new and published works related to issues of justice and discuss the events and experiences that inspired them. Angel Nafis is a Cave Canem Fellow. Her work has appeared in The Rattling Wall, Union Station Magazine, MUZZLE Magazine, Mosaic Magazine…
Find out more »Justice-in-Education Initiative Workshop: Teaching in Prison
This teaching workshop brings together faculty, graduate students, administrators and community members interested in teaching in prison and in prison education programs. Speakers discuss the classes and programs they lead and share their experiences engaging in prison education. A question and answer period will follow their presentations. Speakers Susan Castagnetto: Coordinator for Intercollegiate Women’s Studies of The Claremont Colleges and a Lecturer in Philosophy at Scripps College. Mary Shanley: Professor of Political Science at Vassar College Todd Young: Alumni Coordinator, Hudson…
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Azadeh Zohrabi on the True Cost of Incarceration on Families
Azadeh Zohrabi on the True Cost of Incarceration on Families Wednesday, January 20, 2015 12:30 p.m. — 1:30 p.m. Vera Institute of Justice 233 Broadway, 12th Floor Join us for the next Neil A. Weiner Research Speaker Series event with Azadeh Zohrabi of the Ella Baker Center. She will present on findings from their recent report, Who Pays? The True Cost of Incarceration on Families, which proves that the costs of locking up millions of people are much deeper than we…
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Mass Incarceration and the Underground Economy
The Columbia Population Research Center is pleased to invite you to its Fragile Families Working Group seminar on “Mass Incarceration and the Underground Economy” presented by Amanda Geller, Clinical Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of M.A. Program in Applied Quantitative Research, New York University Bryan Sykes, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine Thursday, February 4th, 2016 12:00pm– 1:00pm Columbia School of Social Work, Room 1109 1255 Amsterdam Avenue (between 121st and 122nd streets)…
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