History Lab: Asian Diaspora in Baltimore Student Presentations
Come learn about the innovative research of students involved in the community-engaged History Lab course, “Asian Diaspora in Baltimore.”
Come learn about the innovative research of students involved in the community-engaged History Lab course, “Asian Diaspora in Baltimore.”
This conversation will feature two experts on Peru and politics in the region, responding to the unfolding crisis and situating it in broader context. The speakers are Prof. Alberto Vergara, Universidad del Pacífico (Lima, Peru), and Prof. Aníbal Pérez-Liñan, University of Notre Dame, moderated by Angelina Cotler, LACLxS.
Dan Berger, professor at University of Washington—Bothell, is co-curator of the Washington Prison History Project, a multimedia archive about prison activism in Washington state. In this conversation with Prof. NDB Connolly, Berger will explain the origins of this archival project and describe how it provides a public accounting of the human magnitude of mass incarceration in the Northwest region as part of understanding its effects across the nation. The project emphasizes currently and formerly incarcerated people, who are rarely considered as political actors or constituencies.