Join the Carceral State Project and GalleryDAAS for a special evening! Start with an exhibit walk-through and reception at GalleryDAAS in Haven Hall (G648) from 4pm to 6pm, then move to UMMA Sterns Auditorium for a talk "Archives of Resistance: Documenting the Carceral Experience in Michigan" by Dr. Heather Ann Thompson, Frank W. Thompson Collegiate Professor of History and African American Studies. Dr. Thompson will be introduced by Professor Christian Davenport, Mary Ann and Charles R. Walgreen, Jr., Professor for the Study of Human Understanding, Professor of Political Science and joined by Carceral State Project researchers sharing insight into their experience with the research, the collaborations, and the individual stories at the heart of the Carceral State Project.

The exhibit will remain open through January and showcases stories of resistance, resilience, and hope, in the face of mass incarceration, police violence, immigrant detention, and systematic racial criminalization.

Archives of Resistance presents art, prisoner correspondence, research publications, and archival documentation produced by component projects of the Carceral State Project’s umbrella research initiative, Documenting Criminalization, Confinement, and Resistance. Featured work is curated from: The Reckoning Project, Immigrant Justice Lab, Black & Pink at SPH, ICE in the Heartland, Critical Carceral Visualities, Policing & Social Justice HistoryLab, and Confronting Conditions of Confinement and Resistance. Artwork made by people in prison through the Carceral State Projects campus partner, Prison Creative Arts Project is also on display.