HAL GD Working Group Agenda and Participant List for download

Humanities Action Lab
Global Dialogues on Incarceration
Working Group Convening January 5-7, 2015
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Room I202
Agenda
Monday, January 5
8:30-10:30
Orientation for partners
10:40-1:30
Confronting the Current Crisis: Challenges in public discourse and public
engagement around incarceration
10:40-11:40
Glenn Martin, Founder and Chief Risk Taker, JustLeadershipUSA (JLUSA)
Jeffrey Smith, Assistant Professor of Politics and Advocacy, Milano School
of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy, New School for
Public Engagement
Framing: What are some of the biggest challenges in public discourse,
policy, and engagement around incarceration? What interventions can a
public humanities project like ours make in current dialogue and
participation in incarceration issues, locally and inter/nationally? Who are
we seeking to engage most? What other civic engagement strategies can we
learn from, and what can we contribute?
11:40-12:45
Small group discussions with lunch: What goals and principles should
guide the development of a national public memory of incarceration’s past and dialogue on
its future? What tensions and debates should be engaged throughout?
12:45-1:30
Plenary sharing and reflections
Break
2:00-4:45
Confronting the Past: Framing Historical Narratives and Dialogue
2:00-3:00
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director, Schomburg Center for Research in
Black Culture
Heather Ann Thompson, Professor of History, Department of AfroAmerican Studies, The Residential College, and The Department of
History, University of Michigan
Sean Kelley, Senior Vice President and Director of Public Programs,
Eastern State Penitentiary
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Framing: What big questions do histories of incarceration help raise or
clarify in current debates? Which historical moments and collective
memories are critical to current understanding, and why?
3:00-4:00
Small group discussions with coffee: What are the big questions we want to
raise through our project? What are the key historical moments or phases of change we
should include overall, that would help us address those questions? How are these different
in our different localities?
4-4:45 Plenary sharing and reflections
6:00-8:00pm:
Humanities Action Lab Launch Part 1: Mass Incarceration and Public Memory
More information and RSVP
Join a moderated conversation among three historical witnesses to the mass incarceration crisis now working
to shape its future. Shape the national debate through our participatory design process.
Tuesday, January 6
8:45-10:15
Designing for Dialogue: Developing a digital and physical exhibit framework
Designers join partners and advisors to review and refine design “briefs” – outlines of visions, priorities, and
constraints -- for the digital and physical exhibits, as well as discussion of initial ideas for design directions.
10:30-12:20
THATCamp sessions on developing our digital humanities platform
A chance to engage participants in The Humanities and Technology Camp (THATCamp), an “unconference”
held as part of the American Historical Association’s annual conference, on ideas for developing a digital
platform for national dialogue on the past and present and future of incarceration. HAL will offer 2 sessions
inviting participants to brainstorm with project partners and advisors:
10:30-11:20
Developing digital histories of incarceration
11:30-12:20
Developing platforms for dialogue and collaboration around public
memory and engagement in incarceration
Lunch
1:30-4:00
Collaboration, Civic Engagement, and Inclusive Governance
1:30-2:30
Tricia Way, Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program
Chris Dwyer, Senior Vice President, RMC Research
Matt Leighninger, Director, Deliberative Democracy Consortium
Framing: Leaders of collaborative culture- and education-based civic engagement projects
involving incarcerated people and other affected communities will share issues and models.
Scholars of public engagement will frame possibilities and challenges for “inclusive
governance” – civic participation in shaping issues outside of the ballot box -- and
implications for a national public memory project on incarceration.
2:30-3:15
Small group discussions and coffee: What principles of collaboration and
participation should guide a public memory and dialogue on incarceration? How should
currently incarcerated people shape the project – what are the challenges, opportunities, and
potential strategies? Who should be part of the process? What are the possibilities for
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connecting the project with local efforts to change policy? What are potential targets and
metrics for civic participation through the project?
3:15-4:00
Plenary sharing and reflections
Wednesday, January 7
Project partners only
8:30-10:00
Courses and Collaboration: Planning our process
• Courses: idea for how to structure courses; what kinds of research material and
preparation are required before the start of the Fall 2015 semester; what resources could
the Hub provide.
• Community partnerships: review models of collaborative curation/universitycommunity partnerships from GPMP and elsewhere; discuss ideas for working with
community partners to develop each piece of project.
Coffee break
10:15-11:45
Evaluation plan
10:15-10:45
Presentation of draft logic model and evaluation plan: what objectives will
guide our work? What indicators will we seek? How will we measure them in each of our
localities? What support do we need?
10:45-11:45
11:45-12:30
Discussion and refinement of logic model and plan
Open wrap-up discussion/next steps with lunch
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Participants as of 12/16/14
University Partners
Megan Asaka, Acting Assistant Professor - Asian American History, Public History, University of California,
Riverside
Martin Blatt, Professor of the Practice in History, Northeastern University
Victoria Cain, Assistant Professor, History Department, Northeastern University
Julia Foulkes, Associate Professor of History, New School for Public Engagement
Lisa Guenther, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
Jessica Johnson, Outreach Director, History Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies; Director, Cultural Heritage
Research Center, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Molly McGarry, Associate Professor of History, University of California at Riverside
Kevin Murphy, Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota
Jessica Namakkal, Assistant Professor, International Comparative Studies, Duke University
Amy Remensnyder, Associate Professor of History, Brown University
Leah Sarat, Assistant Professor, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizona
State University
Tom Scheinfeldt, Associate Professor of Digital Media and Design and Director of Digital Humanities in the
Digital Media Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Jeffrey Smith, Assistant Professor of Politics and Advocacy, Milano School of International Affairs,
Management, and Urban Policy, New School for Public Engagement
Amy Tyson, Assistant Professor, Department of History, DePaul University
Andy Urban, Assistant Professor of American Studies & History, Rutgers University New Brunswick
Advisors
Dan Berger, Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of
Washington Bothell
Douglas Blackmon, Contributing Correspondent, Washington Post; Director of Public Programs and
Chair of the Miller Center American Forum, University of Virginia
Chris Dwyer, Senior Vice President, RMC Research
Elizabeth Hinton, Assistant Professor, Department History and Department of African and African
American Studies, Harvard University
Julianne Hoffenberg, Director of Operations, Gathering for Justice
William Johnston, Program Office, US Programs’ Justice Fund, Open Society Foundations
Sean Kelley, Senior Vice President and Director of Public Programs, Eastern State Penitentiary
Matt Leighninger, Director, Deliberative Democracy Consortium
Glenn E. Martin, Founder and Chief Risk Taker, JustLeadershipUSA (JLUSA)
Marc Mauer, Director, Sentencing Project
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Max Mishler, Postdoctoral Fellow, The MacNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of
Pennsylvania
Graham Macindoe, Photographer, Part Time Lecturer, The New School
Angelo Pinto, Campaign Manager, Juvenile Justice Project, Correctional Association of New York
Juliet Stumpf, Professor of Law, Lewis and Clark Law School
Heather Ann Thompson, Professor of History, Department of Afro-American Studies, The
Residential College, and The Department of History, University of Michigan
Tricia Way, Associate Director for Research and Advancement, Inside-Out Prison Exchange
Program
Tyrone Werts, co-Founder and Director, End Crime Project
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