story by Andrew Clark According to four local educators, there seems to be one sure-fire way to help lower the number of former inmates returning to prison. The solution? Promoting literacy behind bars. On April 8, Suffolk University and the Boston Athenæum hosted a panel discussion, “Prison Literacy,” at the Athenæum as the fourth installment… Continue reading Literacy Behind Bars
Join us, Thursday, April 8 @ 6:00pm, at the Boston Athenaeum (10 1/2 Beacon Street) for a panel discussion on the importance of “Prison LIteracy.” The panel will feature Jill McDonough, poet; Steven Spitzer, professor of Sociology, Suffolk University; Robert Waxler, professor of English, UMass Dartmouth; moderated by Jack Gantos, author. JILL MCDONOUGH’s first book of… Continue reading Prison Literacy
Thursday, March 11, 2010, the Boston Athenaeum together with the College of Arts and Sciences, Suffolk University present the second event in the 2010 Civic Discourse Series: Literacy and Democracy – Adult Literacy in the Digital Age. The panel features Joanne Appleton Arnarud, Executive Director, First Literacy; Linda Nathan, founding Headmaster of the Boston Arts Academy; and Wick… Continue reading Adult Literacy in the Digital Age
A panel discussion 6:00pm Monday, April 6th, 2009 at C. Walsh Theatre Broadcast Journalists have been praised for breaking important news stories and criticized for breaking political candidates. Is the role of television news in our democracy to present politically neutral information or to provide informed opinion? Charles Kravitz, President of NECN, has had a distinguished career as… Continue reading The Role of Television Journalism in a Democratic Society, Panel on April 6th
Thursday, April 2nd, 6:00 p.m. Suffolk University, C. Walsh Theatre, 55 Temple Street Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property analyzes Nat Turner’s slave rebellion of 1831 and its aftermath in American memory. The film explores the many interpretations of the event, including William Styron’s controversial 1967 Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Confessions of Nat Turner and… Continue reading Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2003), Film Screening & Panel Discussion, on April 2nd
6:00pm Wednesday, March 25, 2009 @ The Boston Athenæum, 10 1/2 Beacon Street For more than two centuries, America’s newspapers have been the public’s primary source of information about our government. As circulation and staffs shrink, there are significant implications for democracy, which is dependent upon an informed public. Bruce D. Butterfield is an assistant professor and… Continue reading The Shrinking World of Print Journalism: A Danger to Democracy? March 25th
Panel Discussion Thursday, February 26th, 6:00 p.m.Boston Athenæum, 10½ Beacon Street Does the Internet help make citizens more engaged in the democratic process? How do online social presence, community formation, and party identification on social media sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, and Digg affect the political process? Have online media sites like The Huffington… Continue reading New Media, Democracy & Technology Panel Discussion, Feb 26th