LLILAS Benson and the Texas Prison Education Initiative welcome María José Rubin and Sabrina Charaf of the Prison Extension Program, School of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. This panel is presented in conjunction with "Pido la Palabra: A Texas Prison Literature Project for Social Justice and the Literary Imagination," which is funded by a grant from the the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This panel presentation, delivered in English, is presented in conjunction with "Pido la Palabra: A Texas Prison Literature Project for Social Justice and the Literary Imagination," a funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

About the Presenters

María José Rubin and Sabrina Charaf are coordinators and educators at the Prison Extension Program—Programa de Extensión en Cárceles, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. They are members of the Prison Writing National Meeting organization committee. In this capacity, they develop academic research on prison writing and education as members of university research groups. They have published papers on these topics, and are co-authors of Escribir en la cárcel. Prácticas y experiencias de lectura y escritura en contextos de encierro, a book on reading and writing practices in prison. As part of the Prison Extension Program activities, they work at a project called “La Segunda,” meant for providing educational guidance to former incarcerated students.

Free and open to the public. Lunch will be served. For more information, contact Paloma Díaz.