“The Speculative Archive of Prison Abolition”

The Department of History’s African American Postdoctoral Program will host a guest lecture titled “The Speculative Archive of Prison Abolition.” Historian Dan Berger will give this presentation Monday, April 2, from 11:25 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in Mather House, Room 100.

About the talk

Prison is a place of both punishment and knowledge production. It is, in other words, an archive. Berger, an associate professor at the University of Washington, will explore the archive of imprisonment, focusing especially on the creative projects that currently and formerly incarcerated people have created. Drawing especially on an emerging digital project of prisoner activism in the 1970s and 1980s, Berger will show how prisoners have turned their conditions of confinement into a space to imagine freedom. Learn more at history.case.edu/news-events/.