This roundtable centers on the interplay between the personal and the social, exploring how personal narratives, family histories, and intimate encounters with structural injustices illuminate broader societal problems. The authors’ works span issues of environmental crisis, incarceration, addiction, mental health, and urban violence, yet all ground their social critiques in deeply personal storytelling.

The first 100 people to register and attend the event will receive a free book authored by one of the speakers. The roundtable discussion will be followed by a reception and book signing. Please note - if you are unable to pick up the book at the event, it will be given away to another attendee. 
 

Speakers:

Laurence Ralph, William D. Zabel ’58 Professor of Human Rights; Professor of Anthropology and Public Affairs, Princeton University; Author of  Sito: An American Teenager and the City that Failed Him

Angela Garcia; Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University; Author of The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City’s Anexos

Antonia Hylton, Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, Author of Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Reuben Jonathan Miller, Associate Professor in the Crown Family School and Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation; Associated Faculty, Sociology, University of Chicago; Author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

Moderator:

Lucas Bessire, Professor, Colorado School of Mines; Stanley Kelley, Jr., Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching in the Department of Anthropology, Princeton University; author of Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains