On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City

Lecture Series Speaker

Alice Goffman

On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City

Thursday, February 19, 2015
12:00-1:30
Margaret Brent Room
Stamp Student Union

Forty years in, the War on Crime and Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Goffman spent six years living in one such neighborhood in Philadelphia; Goffman will discuss her in-depth ethnographic book On the Run which recounts young men and women coming of age as they attend court dates and parole meetings, survive interrogations and beatings, and dip and dodge the police.

Alice Goffman is an urban ethnographer who grew up in Philadelphia. She attended graduate school at Princeton and now teaches in the sociology department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

This event is presented by The Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity in collaboration with Maryland Population Research Center (MPRC).

This event is open to the public but registration is required. Please RSVP here: http://www.crge.umd.edu/rsvp.html

In addition, interested graduate students have the opportunity to meet with Dr. Alice Goffman prior to her presentation from 11:00-12:00 in the Margaret Brent Room at Stamp.

This will be an excellent opportunity for students who are using ethnography and have similar research interests to have more informal time with Dr. Goffman. If you are interested in attending the meeting, please email Laura A. Logie at lauraalogie@hotmail.com