Bridges Inside Discussion August 2024

Chair(s)

Sam Shpall and Jedidiah Evans

Texts

Tommie Shelby, The Idea of Prison Abolition (2022), Introduction and Chapter 1

Selected prison poetry

This session will introduce participants to the idea of prison abolition and set the foundation for the following discussions. Dr Sam Shpall (Philosophy) will begin the conversation by guiding participants through the central ideas of Shelby’s text. Dr Jedidiah Evans (English) will then introduce participants to a selection of poems by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated writers. The discussion will conclude with an examination of the relationship between Shelby’s ideas and the selected poetry. 

Readings will be sent to participants upon registration.