Reclaiming the Right to Learn: Education and Prison
Monday, Feb 5, at 2 pm
In person (recorded). Recording will be hosted on this page shortly after the live session.
This event will take place in person in Bobst Library, 2nd Floor North Reading Room on Monday, February 5 at 2pm. It is open to all NYU students, faculty, and staff.
Join NYU Libraries for a conversation with staff and students from New York University Prison Education Program (NYU PEP). Founded in 2015, NYU PEP is a college-in-prison program that aims to expand access to higher education within communities impacted by the criminal justice system, to address inequities within our NYU community, and to model how a research university can advance solutions to real world problems.
This conversation will explore issues of education, carceral confinement, and the historical connections to freedom struggles within and beyond the site of the prison. We’ll examine the legacy of organizing done by incarcerated people to gain access to different forms of education, and the link between access to education and larger movements for freedom and civil rights.
We will also discuss the historical and contemporary role of radical librarians working within and against the carceral state, highlighting some of the challenges and opportunities that college-in-prison programs confront such as censorship, technology, and access to resources facing PEP today.
This conversation will be moderated by Symphony Bruce, Critical Pedagogy Librarian at NYU Libraries.