2016-2017 Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture
Series
The U.S. in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Overview | Fall Calendar | Spring Preview | K-12 Offerings | Curricular Connections |Transportation and Accessibility | About the Lecture Series | About Kenneth Feinberg | PosterHow is it that the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world? What forces led us here? What alternatives are on the horizon?
The 2016-2017 Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series will explore the ways that state violence, mass incarceration, and mass criminalization have transformed the U.S. economy, culture and society. More than a dozen panels, performances, gallery exhibitions, and lectures by the nation's leading scholars, artists and activists will explore a wide range of topics, from police brutality, immigration detention, and carceral feminism to the consequences of incarceration for women, people of color, and LGBTQ individuals. The series will culminate in the opening of the national traveling exhibition States of Incarceration: A National Dialogue of Local Stories.
This Feinberg Series aims to offer meaningful events that consider the carceral state in historical perspective and that will support and amplify ongoing work by community groups and activists, enriching undergraduate and graduate education at UMass and surrounding educational institutions. Taken together, these powerful events will explore the many ways in which the carceral state impacts our lives and our world in deep and far-reaching ways.
All events are FREE and open to the public.
Link here for Fall 2016-2017 Calendar of Events
Offerings for K-12 Teachers and Students
K-12 Educators! Please join us for an associated professional development series led by award-winning social justice educator Dr. Antonio Nieves Martinez (UMass Amherst). This free series,Teaching in the Age of Mass Incarceration, will support educators across content areas in exploring these issues in their classrooms. PDPs and graduate credit available (additional fees may apply for graduate credit). This series is offered with the Collaborative for Educational Services. More info here.
Additionally, financial support is available for school field trips to series events and exhibits. Contact outreach@history.umass.edu for more information.