Centre for Community, Gender and Social Justice seminar: 'University and Prison: The UBAXXII Program and the Experience of the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature in Argentina'

The Centre for Community, Gender and Social Justice is hosting a seminar in the Boardroom at 1 pm at the Institute of Criminology. Everyone is invited to attend. Please feel free to bring your own lunch.

The speaker is Juan Pablo Parchuc from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Juan is visiting Cambridge next week and we are delighted to be able to hear him speak about his work on human rights, social inclusion and prison education. Juan will speak for about 30 minutes and there will then be time for questions and discussion.

Abstract

For more than thirty years, the UBAXXII Program has taught undergraduate courses and organized research and extracurricular activities in establishments of the Argentine Federal Penitentiary Service. The Faculty of Philosophy and Literature takes part of this program, as well as other institutional spaces in prison, teaching undergraduate courses, organizing writing, human rights and gender workshops, and carrying out research and educational and community projects, oriented towards the defence of human rights and social inclusion of prisoners and former prisoners. This presentation briefly revises the history and describes the main guidelines and proposals of this intervention, focusing on its transformative potential both for individuals and society.