Below find videotaped panel discussions and public events organized by the Carceral State Project and/or featuring DCC researchers. Also visit the Documenting Criminalization and Confinement YouTube channel. (Note: the Carceral State Project’s inaugural six-part symposium series during 2018-2019, featuring community activists and impacted persons, is on the separate symposium series page).
“Living on Loss of Privileges: What We Learned in Prison” (Oct. 22, 2020)
Panel discussion about the web series Living on Loss of Privileges: What We Learned in Prison (view series here). This event includes the premiere of the final episode of the series, featuring host and co-creator Pat Bates, followed by a panel discussion among the production team moderated by historian Heather Ann Thompson. LOP Production Team: Patrick Bates — Producer and Series Host; Ashley Lucas — Producer; Cozine Welch — Producer; Ali Friedman — Associate Producer; Sriram Papolu — Director, Cinematographer, and Editor; Adam Kouraimi — Production Assistant.
“Seeking Justice for Cynthia Scott: Writing the History of Police Violence in Detroit” (Sept. 29, 2020)
“Seeking Justice for Cynthia Scott”–a panel discussion sponsored by the Detroit Writing Room and featuring three members of DCC’s Policing and Social Justice HistoryLab. The panel was based on the DCC’s July 2020 investigative report What Happened to Cynthia Scott? A Brutal Murder, Blatant Coverup, and Cries for Justice. Panelists included Professor of History Matt Lassiter, the director of the Policing and Social Justice HistoryLab; U-M graduate student Nicole Navarro, the lead investigator for the DCC project to excavate the hidden history of police killings in Detroit; Hannah Thoms, undergraduate contributor to the Detroit Under Fire website; and U-M Professor of History and AfroAmerican Studies Angela Dillard (moderator).
“Policing and Protest 2020” panel discussion, sponsored by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Michigan and recorded July 28, 2020. Featuring three of the faculty leaders of the Documenting Criminalization and Confinement project along with two other members of the U-M Department of History. Panelists: • Melissa Burch, Anthropology • Matthew Countryman, Afroamerican and African History, American Culture, History • Matthew Lassiter, History • William D. Lopez, Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health. Moderator: • Mrinalini Sinha, History
