Prison Life in the MENA and Global Prisons
Online-Workshop with students from the Universities Genève, Marburg and Cologne
19 November 2021
https://www.menaprisonforum.org/blog_detail/25/
10:00 – 10:30 : Introduction (Basil, Mina, Stephan)
- Current research on prison-related topics
- Exchange on teaching prison in the MENA
10:30 – 11:00 : Michelle Gromek: “Prisons in (early) Islamic History”
11:00 – 11:30 : Clara Palmisano: “Transformative Justice and the Abolitionist Movement Today: Rethinking International Human Rights Law and Justice”
11:30 – 12:00: Riddhi Gyan Pandey: "Sharing Life Across Prison Boundaries: Proposing an Ethnography of Social Connections of Incarcerated Persons in Indian Prisons"
Lunch Break
13:00 – 13:30 : Lukas Walesch: “The Subman - Sexualised Violence Against Men in the Novel 'The Shell' by Muṣṭafā Ḫalīfa”
13:30 – 14:00 : Chiara Burgard: “The Role of Dr. Shirin al-Abed in Fauda – Do Palestinian Women Need Saving?”
Coffee Break
14:15 – 15: 00 Final Discussion and Conclusive Remarks:
- Academia and activism: What can we do and how can we engage into the topic more actively?
- Possibilities and forms of publishing our research results
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