Join Benjamin Weber in conversation with High School History Teacher and New Books in African American Studies Host Omari Averette-Phillips and others about ways of teaching human rights and reparations activism in the classroom.

Sunday, Dec. 3 | 8:30-10:30am Rm 270D.

Music City Center — 201 Rep. John Lewis Way S, Nashville, TN, 37203

Meet us in the Music City!

Meet with thousands of social studies educators, administrators, and professionals from across the country to inspire your usage of best practices and rejuvenate with others in the social studies profession.

The 103rd NCSS Annual Conference will address the sub-themes of:

• Inclusive Social Studies: Who Are We?

• Starting at Home: Social Studies is Local—Where Are We?

• Collaboration in Social Studies: Building Partnerships

• Social Studies: Transcending Borders & Seeking Connections

• The Future of Social Studies—What’s Next?

You will leave the conference with strong strategies for delivering instruction that engages students, the best ways to advocate for the most pressing issues of social studies education, and a network of colleagues to support you throughout the year.

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"On Violence: Experimental Study Sequence"
 

Benjamin Weber: American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration
 

Hybrid Event: CHASS INTS 3023 / Zoom
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Join us for a sequence of conversations with authors of key texts addressing violence, empire, liberation, solidarity, abolition, and the problem of “Man”/human. These short (60-75 minute) sessions will be led by students of MCS 201 (Racial-Colonial [State] Violence) at UC Riverside, taught by Prof. Dylan Rodríguez. Online participants will have opportunities to engage with authors during the sessions, to whatever extent time permits. This is an experiment. We hope you will read the authors’ work prior to each study meeting, but as importantly, we aspire to cultivate a sense of intellectual collaboration, curiosity, and activated thought. 
 

Sponsors: UCR's Health Humanities and Disability Justice (HHDJ) Initiative & the Decolonizing Humanism Initiative at the Center for Ideas and Society.

Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration w/ Benjamin Weber

In this episode: A four-hundred-year reckoning with the colonial workings of the carceral state and resistance against it. We talk about how the story of American prisons is inextricably linked to the expansion of US power around the globe as well as the power of prison resistance, from the Seminole Indians to Assata Shakur. Our guest is Benjamin Weber, professor of African American Studies at UC Davis and author of the brand new book American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration. 

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Law & Disorder exposes the cracks in our system, agitates for resistance and collectively builds a new world where all of us thrive — all through an Oakland-based abolitionist lens that centers Black experience, movement-building and art. Hosted by Cat Brooks. Produced by Jesse Strauss.

The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.

This week’s guest is historian Benjamin Weber, author of the new book American Purgatory.

Book on the Rise of Mass Incarceration

A UC Davis professor whose focus is on systemic racism and inequality is taking a hard look at our country’s mass incarceration system, and a history that he says is inextricably linked to the expansion of American power around the globe. Dr. Benjamin Weber joins us about his new book “American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration.”

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