The Washington State University Common Reading Program hosts a lecture by John Lupinacci at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 17, in Todd 116. The event is free and open to the public.
This interactive presentation will introduce the relationship between schools, youth identities, and prisons in United States. Dr. Lupinacci will provide an introductory overview of the school-to-prison pipeline as part of what many researchers are referring to as the North American “prison industrial complex.”
The session will accompany this overview of youth in prisons by posing questions for audience participants to discuss. Often such presentations can leave us feeling powerless; however, this session will culminate by providing audience participants with opportunities to connect with regional and national efforts to reform and/or abolish the systemic incarceration of youth through the school-to-prison pipeline.
Dr. Lupinacci is an assistant professor in the College of Education. He teaches pre-service teachers and graduate students in the Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education (CSSTE) program. He received the American Education Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award in 2011 for his book “EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse, Democratic, and Sustainable Communities.”
WSU’s Common Reading program hosts lectures, film screenings, and other events that explore the topics approached in each year’s chosen common reading book. Bryan Stevenson, acclaimed public interest lawyer and author of this year’s selection “Just Mercy,” will give the annual Common Reading Invited Lecture on Dec. 1 in Beasley Coliseum. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Read more about the program, the book, and events at: https://CommonReading.wsu.edu.
