CTLE Affiliated Events

Cultural Politics of Prison Towns: A Conversation

Thursday, October 5
3:30-5:00 p.m.
204 Maxwell Hall

No registration necessary.

This panel explores contours, logics, politics and nature of collaborative ethnographic and activist research in ‘prison towns.’ It examines how prisons—often situated ‘nearby’ but largely made invisible—reflect and shape the political, economic and cultural lives of the people that live in ‘prison towns,’ including the ability to build and maintain relationships across prison walls. The panelists will also explore the economic, political and social conditions that would make decarceration a desirable—and viable—political project.

  • Catherine Besteman (Colby College)
  • Kristin Doughty (University of Rochester & Rochester Education Justice Initiative)
  • Josh Dubler (University of Rochester & Rochester Education Justice Initiative)
  • Precious Bedell (Rochester Education Justice Initiative)
  • Moderated by Gretchen Purser (Syracuse University)

Presented by the Anthropology Department. Cosponsored by the Balkan Studies Collective, the Meredith Professorship Funds, the Sociology Department, and the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration.

Please contact Lilly Nelson with questions or for accommodations: linelson@syr.edu | 315.443.2200

Peace in (Language) Education presented by Larisa Kasumagić-Kafedžić

An Interactive Workshop on Why and How Peace Belongs in Any Classroom

Friday, October 13
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Virtual via Zoom

Register here by October 12.

Larisa Kasumagić-Kafedžić is a 2003-04 Cornell University Hubert Humphrey Fellow Alumni and was a 2022/23 Fulbright Visiting Scholar Fellow at Cornell University. She teaches at the University of Sarajevo’s Department of English Language and Literature in the Faculty of Philosophy. Her research interests are in the fields of intercultural education, peace pedagogy, language education, teacher development, reflective pedagogies and action research in language teaching classrooms. She is the founder and a president of the Peace Education Hub which was established at the University of Sarajevo in early 2020.

Reverberations: War Memories

Thursday, October 26
3:30-5:00 p.m.
204 Maxwell Hall

No registration necessary.

The Anthropology Department will host Saida Hodžić, an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University, Velibor Božović, a professional photographer based in Montreal, Emina Zoletić, a PhD student at the University of Warsaw, and Bosnian refugees Emrah and Rešid Salkić, a son and father creating a documentary film while living in Syracuse.

The panel will discuss the transmission of wartime memories across geographies and generations, focusing on the Bosnian war and the subsequent Bosnian diaspora.

Please contact Lilly Nelson with questions or for accommodations: linelson@syr.edu | 315.443.2200