Dartmouth Events

All of the Dartmouth & Upper Valley communites are invited to "Locked Up, Locked Out”, on Tuesday, February 17th. Jointly hosted by Dartmouth's Physicians for Human Rights chapter and Nathan Smith Society, this event aims to discuss mass incarceration, racial discrimination within the US justice system and some of the challenges of lowering recidivism rates.
 Along with a keynote address by Professor Joy James from Williams College, the line-up of events will includes dinner, an art gallery, a documentary screening of Broken on All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration, & New Visions for Criminal Justice in the U.S., and an exciting panel discussion on the challenges of reintegration for former inmates as well as local efforts at reform. Dinner (Tastes of Africa) will be served!
 Please RSVP:  http://scan.me/hvpg2v4    (Link also includes further information about speakers and panelists.) Please DO NOT RSVP for dinner head count until double/triple checking your schedules, so we can avoid unnecessary expense.    Attendance without dinner is fine!
 When and where?  
Tuesday, February 17th, 5:00PM
Collis Common Ground, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH
 Schedule of events:
5:00-5:30: Opening of Art Gallery and food serving
5:30-6:40: Screening of "Broken on All Sides"
6:40-7:20: Keynote address by Joy James
7:20-8:20: Reintegration Panel and closing remarks
Sponsored by the Nathan Smith Society, Geisel Physicians for Human Rights, the President’s Office, the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center, the Departments of Government and Sociology, The African & African American Program, the Dartmouth Chapter of the NAACP and the Office of Pluralism & Leadership

Additional details about the event and the participants:
About the Documentary, Broken on all Sides:
http://brokenonallsides.com/about.php
About the Keynote speaker:
Joy James is a professor of Humanities and professor of political science at Williams College. James is author of: Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics; Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals; Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender and Race in U.S. Culture. James is completing a book on the prosecution of 20th-century interracial rape cases, tentatively titled “Memory, Shame & Rage.” She has contributed articles and book chapters to journals and anthologies addressing feminist and critical race theory, democracy, and social justice.James is a senior research fellow at the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, where she is co-curator of digital repositories for the Warfield Center and the Harriet Tubman Literary Circle, an educational nonprofit organization. She is the recipient of grants, fellowships or awards from: the Fletcher Foundation; the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities; the Rockefeller Foundation; the Bellagio Fellowship; the Aaron Diamond Foundation/Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; the Ford Foundation; and the Gustavus Myers Human Rights Award."
About the Panelists:
Manish Mishra, MD: Dr. Mishra's current research interests include characterizing the effects on mental health services for care surrounding addiction and prison medicine.
Martha McLafferty and Lynn Jacobs: Mrs. McLafferty and Mrs. Jacobs serve as director and assistant director of the Hartford Restorative Justice Center: http://hartfordjusticecenter.org/about/
Sean Moore: Mr. Moore is a prison activist with extensive experience working with and mentoring incarcerated persons who are in recovery.