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Imagining Freedom: Developing Communities, Coalitions, and Digital Literacies in Prison

Time: Nov. 7, 2024, 12:30 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.

Location: 228 Schine Student Center (with virtual option)

Part of the Syracuse Symposium

Part of the Syracuse Symposium series.

Brandon Erby

Brandon Erby (University of Kentucky)

Although mainstream narratives often depict people in jails and prisons as dangerous, violent, illiterate, and disposable, Erby’s public talk reveals how incarcerated people build communities inside jails and prisons that counter these dominant portrayals.

Register to participate via zoom.


Additional supporters:

  • Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition
  • Project Mend
  • Engaged Humanities Network
  • Humanities New York's Post-Incarceration Humanities Partnership, which is generously supported by the Mellon Foundation