shaw lecture

CANCELED/POSTPONED: Of Victims and Villains: The Targeting of Muslim Women

Submitted by heidiab on Fri, 02/28/2020 - 8:59am

CANCELED/POSTPONED as of 3/12/2020

Exploring her identity as an immigrant Muslim woman on the front lines of civil rights and liberties in Michigan, Rana Elmir will examine the well-organized Islamophobia industry and the relentless attacks on Muslim women who face unique challenges borne of both a presumption of guilt, as well as the additional presumption of victimhood.

Vivian R. Shaw Lecture by Piper Kerman: "Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison"

Submitted by heidiab on Mon, 05/02/2016 - 4:16pm

Based on the 13 months she spent in the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut on money laundering charges, Kerman’s memoir, Orange is the New Black, explores the experience of incarceration and the intersection of her life with the lives of the women she met while in prison: their friendships and families, mental illnesses and substance abuse issues, cliques and codes of behavior. The book also raises provocative questions about the state of criminal justice in America, and how incarceration affects the individual and communities throughout the nation.