[Peace] Sat Oct 12, 7pm speaker talking about Norway's prisons as an alternative to U.S. prisons

[Karen Medina]

Dear Peace,

On October 12th, there will be a speaker talking about Norway's criminal
justice system (and their education system) as alternatives to the United
States' systems.



I thought you might be interested.



Event: “Norwegian Prisons: Lessons in Humanity / Rebekah Buchanan”

Where: IMC / 202 S. Broadway, Urbana

When: Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 7pm

Cost: free. This event will also be a fundraiser for the Champaign County
Bailout Coalition.



I am attaching 2 things: 1) a flyer for the event 2) a description of the
bailout coalition



About the speaker: Rebekah Buchanan is an Associate Professor of English an
Director of English Education at Western Illinois University. She was a
2018-2019 Fulbright Roving Scholar to Norway where she spent a year
conducting workshops on United States history, culture, and politics to
students and teachers in upper secondary schools (videregående skoles)
throughout Norway. // Her research focuses on feminism, activism, and
literacy practices in youth culture, specifically through zines and music.
She has written extensively on popular culture in the classroom, youth's
out of school literacy practices, music-based pedagogy, punk, including her
book, Writing a Riot: Riot Grrrl Zines and Feminist Rhetorics (Peter Lang,
2018). She also is creating writing programs for dissertators. Currently,
she is working on projects around teaching in Norway, Norwegian prison
education, and reading and activism in the Harry Potter series.



October 12th event

https://www.facebook.com/events/2387614024854789/



Other events:

or the Graduate School of Library and Information Science talk on Libraries
in Norway on Monday, October 14, 2019 at 11:30am.


https://ischool.illinois.edu/news-events/news/2019/10/buchanan-lecture-libraries-norway


https://ischool.illinois.edu/news-events/events/2019/10/14/prison-school-and-public-libraries-norway



Excitedly,
Karen Medina
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