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PEN America’s “Prison Justice and Writing Program”
We [PEN America] are writing to cordially invite you to subscribe and listen to Works of Justice (WOJ), a multimedia series produced by PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing Program that spotlights key figures, writers, and artists who are critically reshaping the conversation on incarceration, advocacy, and justice in the United States. Past features include Derecka Purnell on unlearning…
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University of California Washington Programs to Host “Abolitions Conference”
The Abolitions Conference will be held at the University of California Washington Center in DC, from May 6 to 8, 2023. The abolitionist movement began with calls to abolish chattel slavery in the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, philosophers called for the abolition of the wage system. In the twentieth century, abolitionists called for the…
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Square One Project – “Reimagine Justice in Oklahoma” Event
Join the Square One Project for the first-ever public Roundtable on Values and Justice: Examing Racial Disparities and Reimagining Justice in Oklahoma. This free and public event, taking place in Langston, Oklahoma on January 31st and Tulsa, Oklahoma on February 1st and 2nd, will include a keynote panel, an arts performance, and a sustained dialogue focused on reimagining…
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OU Carceral Studies Consortium Hosts Dr. Sabina Vaught and Coauthors – “The School-Prison Trust” Book Talk
The Carceral Studies Consortium is hosting a Zoom event on Wednesday, January 25th @ 4pm with Dr. Sabina Vaught, Dr. Bryan Brayboy, and Dr. Jeremiah Chin, authors of “The School-Prison Trust”: “The School–Prison Trust describes interrelated histories, ongoing ideologies, and contemporary expressions of what the authors call the “school–prison trust”: a conquest strategy encompassing the boarding school and juvenile prison…
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Collaborative Opportunity from the University of Notre Dame
Integrating Virtue Together is an opportunity for faculty from across institutions and disciplines to join a community of practice to integrate moral virtues into a course they will teach in the academic year 2023-2024. Through this initiative, we will work with faculty to build 2-3 virtues into a course syllabus, integrating experiences, reflections and frameworks…
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Supporting LGBTQ Youth Certificate Program
The Supporting the Well-Being of System-Involved LGBTQ Youth Certificate Program is designed to help juvenile justice, child welfare, and other system partners improve outcomes for at-risk LGBTQ youth. The program focuses on the challenges faced by LGBTQ youth in child-serving systems (including juvenile justice, child welfare, education, and behavioral health) as well as strengths and…
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Resent Research at the University of Oklahoma
Email carceralstudies@ou.edu to see your work featured! Aparicio E.M., Shpiegel S., Grinnell-Davis C., and King B. 2019. ““My body is strong and amazing”: Embodied experiences of pregnancy and birth among young women in foster care”. Children and Youth Services Review. 98: 199-205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.01.007 Aparicio, Elizabeth M., Svetlana Shpiegel, Claudette Grinnell-Davis, and Bryn King. 2019. “‘My Body Is Strong…
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DreamRadically podcast, Dr. Sabina Vaught
DreamRadically Podcast by the Foundation for Liberating Minds brings community leaders, activists, educators, artists, students, and more to imagine a society full of justice and peace. This podcast brings voices who are on the ground doing the work for structural change in our communities and provides lessons for all of us to embark on the…
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OU Professor Karlos K. Hill Partners with Vox Media on Documentary: “Why all Americans should honor Juneteenth”
Carceral Studies Consortium board member and chair of the University of Oklahoma African and African-American Studies department Karlos K. Hill recently partnered with Vox Media to release a documentary entitled “Why all Americans should honor Juneteenth.” Read on to view the video and link the Vox page for the project. Read on for excerpts, or…
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‘Reimagining a Jail for Oklahoma City’ Dream Course to be Offered Fall 2020
‘Reimagining a Jail for Oklahoma City’ (ARCH4970/5970) will be offered as a dream course during the Fall 2020 semester at GCA. Taught by architecture professor Marjorie Callahan AIA, LEEP AP, the course will explore topics such as ways to reduce cycles of intergenerational incarceration, the specific design challenges related to women’s incarceration in Oklahoma, and more. ‘Reimagining a…
