TOPICS: DEMOCRACY LAB: PRISON EDUCATION WORKSHOP in Fall 2025 (HI3910A)

This class is part of the innovative AUP prison education program, which links AUP in a partnership with the La Santé prison in Paris, bringing students into a shared space of learning with people detained at La Santé. The approach of this program is to open up the possibility for mutual learning and reflection across prison walls.

This fall version will mostly be held at AUP with a few classes taking place in an English learning class at La Santé. Interactive exercises in La Santé will foster exchange between AUP students and people studying English during their detention. In the classes at AUP, AUP students will engage with readings, guest lecturers who have experienced incarceration, and participate in discussions about the carceral experience and issues about justice and healing that are posed by incarceration.

This fall Prison Education Workshop takes place in English. There is no language prerequisite, but the class involves an application and interview process. Here is the link to the application:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdsqGaO2TUgzXUhYdydgI_f9UwjY1Nz...