The Library will be hosting a Symposium this Fall 2022. The Symposium is titled Prison State. It will explore the regional and pervasive impact of prison incarceration and the current debate around prison abolition. Specifically, we would like to engage in the conversation of prison abolition, reform, youth incarnation, cumulative trauma, rights of formerly incarcerated citizens, etc.
The inspiration for the theme is the Library's Special Collections' prison incarceration collection and the Library Gallery exhibit being hosted, called Prison Nation, simultaneously in Fall 2022.
Nine presentations are scheduled throughout the semester in the Gallery or virtually. All presentations will be streamed live.
1. Dr. Kate Drabinski, UMBC Professor: 9/30
2. Glennor Shirley, Retired Prison Librarian: 10/10
3. Kevin Muhitch, UMBC Alum: 10/19
4. Elaine MacDougall, Current graduate student: 10/26
6. Lawrence Grandpre, Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle: 11/2
7. Dr. Michael Casiano, UMBC Professor: 11/9
8. Betsy Fox, MD Department of Juvenile Services: 11/16
9. Nathaniel R. Balis, The Annie E. Casey Foundation: 12/2
Steven Dashiell (LLC '20) was featured on the NPR show Code Switch on Wednesday, September 28th. Code Switch is a show and podcast that looks at issues of race, ethnicity, and culture in a historical, pop cultural, and critical way.
Steven was brought into the episode "Rolling the dice in Dungeons & Dragons", which is on the topic of the very popular role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. Steven speaks about his research on the game, and how the table encourages different and notable types of discourse.
(If you want to jump to the part featuring Steven, he starts around the 24:30 mark of the recording.)
(Photo of Sonia Eaddy by Charles Cohen)
As statewide primaries continue through the summer, many Americans are beginning to think about which candidates they will support in the 2022 general election.
This decision-making process is fraught with difficulties, especially for inexperienced voters.
Voters must navigate angry, emotion-laden conversations about politics when trying to sort out whom to vote for. Americans are more likely than ever to view politics in moral terms, meaning their political conversations sometimes feel like epic battles between good and evil.
But political conversations are also shaped by, obviously, what Americans know - and, less obviously, what they think they know - about politics.
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