| Abram Engerman | 1979 | | | View |
| 1979-10-15 Abram Engerman is welcomed to the podium as a Professor of Social Strategies at Antioch University, Baltimore, a communication consultant, and a sensitivity trainer. Drawing from his experience of incarceration in Russian prison camps and studies of institutional analysis, he calls critical attention to the value associated with the words that are used in institutional contexts and management systems. The floor is opened up for questions from the incarcerated audience members to Engleman. https://vimeo.com/user152026666/engerman?share=copy 1:51:20 |
| Johnathan Kozol | 1979 | | | View |
| 1979-10-22 The moderator introduces the speaker Johnathan Kozol, an author of several books including The night is dark and I am far from home. Kozol gives a presentation entitled “Mass Education for Individual Destruction.” The microphone opens up to the incarcerated audience members for reflections and questions. |
| Bruce Franklin | 1979 | | | View |
| 1979-10-29 The moderator introduces Dr. Franklin, a pioneering author of prison literature and professor of English at Rutgers. Franklin discusses criminality and the role of prison literature in American society, highlighting a boom in the genre with the release of The Autobiography of Malcolm X in 1965. |
| Thomas Cripps | 1979 | | | View |
| 1979-11-12 The guest speaker is Thomas Cripps who is Professor of History at Morgan State University and author of Slow Fade to Black and Black Film as Genre. He traces the evolution of filmmaking alongside the racial dynamics in the United States and discusses the ongoing film project being done with Morgan State University about Black history in Baltimore. A lively discussion erupts when the incarcerated audience members begin to ask questions. Having received a handful of rigorous and contentious questions from the audience members, Cripps ends his time by giving up the microphone with his hands raised, repeating “what’s a minority, it depends on the year. |
| Malcolm Braly | 1979 | | | View |
| 1979-11-19 The moderator introduces Braly as an ex-convict who is a writer-in-residence at the University of Maryland and author of On the Yard. Braly speaks on his experiences leading up to his conviction, time spent writing in jal, and life after his release prior to watching the movie adaptation of his book.The microphone opens up to the incarcerated audience members for reflections and questions. https://vimeo.com/user152026666/braly?share=copy 1:06:12 |
| Jane Morgan Franklin | 1979 | | | View |
| 1979-11-5 The moderator introduces the speaker Franklin, a movie critic and reviewer, author, and founding member of People for Prisoners’ Art in New Jersey. Franklin gives a presentation entitled “The Camera as Con: Images of Prisoners in the Movies.”
The microphone opens up to the incarcerated audience members for reflections and questions. |
| Nijole Benokraitis | 1979 | | | View |
| 1979-12-10 The audience members posed questions and comments to the guest speaker Professor Nijole Benokratis about the victimization of women during sexual encounters, the socialization processes that occur within families, and the power dynamics between gender roles. https://vimeo.com/user152026666/benokraitis?share=copy 55:02 |
| Alfie Brown | 1979 | | | View |
| 1979-12-17 Alfie Brown is introduced as the Associate Director of the Urban Arts Project for the Urban Services Agency in Baltimore City, the moderator for the weekly program The Critic’s Place on Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting, and a career actress. She presents an introduction to the conceptualization of women which is explored through the image of the white American woman incarcerated in the 1950s, depicted in the film I Want to Live. The floor is opened up to the incarnated audience members for questions and comments through the end of the video footage. |
| Eddie Conway Movie Panel | 1980 | | | View |
| 1980-1-14 The panel includes Floyd Payne, Brenda Vogel, Leon Alcott, James Ray Bay, Robert Robertson, and Eddie Conway. The panel discusses the movie Fugitive From a Chain Gang and the book I Am a Fugitive From A Georgia Chain Gang!. The microphone opens up to the incarcerated audience members for reflections and questions. https://vimeo.com/user152026666/conway?share=copy 1:15:20 |
| Askia Muhammad | 1980 | | | View |
| 1980-1-21 Muhammad is introduced as a journalist, editor, and correspondent to the National Scene News Bureau and the founder of the Black Journalism Review. His presentation is entitled “Cultural Imprisonment: the Effects of Foreign Policy.” He goes on to discuss the genocidal conflicts in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia and the weaponization of United States foreign policy. |
| Nathan Heard | 1980 | | | View |
| 1980-1-28 The video opens to reflections presented by the incarcerated audience members in response to Heard’s discussion. https://vimeo.com/user152026666/heard?share=copy 38:07 |
| Charlie Cobb | 1980 | | | View |
| 1980-1-7 The moderator introduces the guest speaker Charlie Cobb as an international journalist and correspondent, formerly with Nation Public Radio. He speaks on the topics of regional conflict and the way the world is divided between the development and underdevelopment of the so-called Global North and South. Cobb’s speech is supplemented with graphic photographs of the Rhodesian and Angolan conflicts. As he flips through the slides of photographs, audience members begin to inquire about their contexts. The conversation raises a range of critical questions, some of which speak to the involvement of the United States in these conflicts. |
| Ted Robert Gurr | 1980 | | | View |
| 1980-10-20 The moderator introduces Gurr as a professor of political science at Northwestern, an expert on political violence in the United States, and author on the topics of crime and punishment in Western society. Gurr presents on relative deprivation in a talk entitled “Discontent: Its social sources and political consequences.” The microphone opens up to the incarcerated audience members for reflections and questions. |
| Bob Cheeks | 1980 | | | View |
| 1980-10-27 The moderator introduces Bob Cheeks, a political activist in Baltimore City, Director of the Baltimore Welfare Rights Association, and Chairperson of the People’s Campaign for Rent Control. Cheeks orates a speech on the systemic imprisonment of Black men in Maryland in a presentation entitled “Penitentiary Reverberations.” |
| Spiladis, Engleman, Heard | 1980 | | | View |
| 1980-10-6 The moderator prompts audience members to think about a question for the upcoming final presentation to conclude a year of humanities talks. Program 50 is named “Legacy and Consequence of Hegemony.” Three speakers returned based on audience reflections, including Abhram Engleman, professor of Social Strategies at Antioch College, Elias Spiladis, a professor and Baltimore mental health worker, and Nathan Seheard, author and former offender. Respectively, the guest speakers participate in a trialogue on “Legacy and Consequence of Hegemony” through the topics of technological hegemony, mental health consequences of cultural hegemony, and existing within and beyond hegemonization. The floor opens up to the incarcerated audience members to pose questions, comments, and discuss with the guest speakers. |
| David Rothman | 1980 | | | View |
| 1980-2-11 The moderator introduces the speaker Dr. Rothman, a professor of history, works at the Center for Policy Research, and is the co-director of the project on community alternatives for the mentally disabled. Dr. Rothman discusses the history of US prisons and prisoners’ rights. The microphone opens up to the incarcerated audience members for reflections and questions. |
| Michael Hogan | 1980 | | | View |
| 1980-2-18 The moderator introduces the speaker Michael Hogan, an author, editor, and teacher who spent nine years in prison. Hogan discusses the movie Straight Time. The microphone opens up to the incarcerated audience members for reflections and questions. https://vimeo.com/user152026666/hogan?share=copy 58:06 |
| Abram Engerman | 1980 | | | View |
| 1980-2-25 The video opens to a Q and A session held in response to the Abram Engerman’s presentation on eligibility and distinctions. |
| Jesse McDade | 1980 | | | View |
| 1980-3-17 The moderator introduces McDade, a host of the University Forum, professor of philosophy at Morgan State University, author, and social activist. McDade gives a presentation entitled “The Prison Trinity: Myth, Macho, and Magic.” The microphone opens up to the incarcerated audience members for reflections and questions. |
| Bonnie Rowan | 1980 | | | View |
| 1980-3-24 Rowan uses Charlie Chaplin’s The Tramp to discuss rhetoric, filmmaking in the 20th century, and comedy as a tool to approach hard topics. The microphone opens up to the incarcerated audience members for reflections and questions. https://vimeo.com/user152026666/rowan?share=copy 55:15 |
| John Toland | 1980 | | | View |
| 1980-3-31 The moderator introduces the speaker as Dr. Toland, a professor of sociology who teaches criminology at Towson State University and a coordinator of a law enforcement and corrections programs. Dr. Toland discusses criminology and the role of prisons.
The microphone opens up to the incarcerated audience members for reflections and questions. |
| Will Chambliss | 1980 | | | View |
| 1980-4-14 The moderator introduces Heard (11: 25), sociologist from the University of Delaware and author of One the Take: From Petty Crooks to Presidents. Chambliss discusses the power of organized crime in the United States. The microphone opens up to the incarcerated audience members for reflections and questions. |
| Philip Slater | 1980 | | | View |
| 1980-4-21 The moderator introduces the speaker Philip Slater, an author, actor, playright, and a former professor at Harvard and Brandeis universities. Slater discusses organization and governance in a presentation entitled “The celling of self and others.” The microphone opens up to the incarcerated audience members for reflections and questions. |
| Bob Johnson | 1980 | | | View |
| 1980-5-26 The moderator reflects on the successes and reception in different locations of the program. She then introduces Robert Johnson, an associate professor of Justice at American University and the author of Culture of Confinement and Control. Johnson discusses capital punishment, the environment of death row, and the ethics of crime and punishment.
The microphone opens up to the incarcerated audience members for reflections and questions. |
| Bruce Franklin | 1980 | | | View |
| 1980-6-9 The video opens to a group of incarcerated men being called to gather behind the speaker’s podium to acknowledge their contribution to the existence of the program itself. The floor is opened up to audience members to hear responses about the copy of Blood in My Eye that was distributed within the prison and the viewing of Black August.
The moderator introduces Dr. Bruce Franklin (1 hour and 40 minutes into the video) as the author of The Victim as Criminal and Artist and a professor of English and American Literature at Rutgers University. The topic of his speech is “Convicts as American Political Leaders: From Malcolm X, Killed 1965, to George Jackson, Killed 1971.” Informed by the two aforementioned historical figures, he articulates how fascism operates within the American Empire. The microphone opens up to audience reflections and questions. |
| Amiri Baraka | 1980 | | | View |
| 1980-9-1 This video features response to the presentation given by Aimiri Baraka. The incarcerated audience members step up the microphone to discuss the prison industrial complex with Baraka. https://vimeo.com/user152026666/baraka?share=copy 31:53 |
| Otto Begas | 1980 | | | View |
| 1980-9-15 The moderator introduces the speaker Otto Begas, a professor of philosophy at Morgan State and author. Begas discusses freedom of choice in a presentation entitled “To be or not to be free: Whose choice is it?” The microphone opens up to the incarcerated audience members for reflections and questions. |
| Bill O’ Connor | 1980 | | | View |
| 1980-9-22 The moderator introduces Bill O’Connor as a professor of sociology and urban affairs at the Community College of Baltimore, poet, and political activist. Connor presents on the topic entitled “Tacit Approval: An invitation to Holocaust.” The microphone opens up to the incarcerated audience members for reflections and questions. Key words: power, wealth, experts, Holocaust https://youtu.be/Sn32HtxaLyU 2:37:38 |
| Constance Goldman | 1980 | | | View |
| 1980-9-29 The moderator introduces Goldman, a correspondent for National Public Radio, journalist, producer, and media specialist. After a showing of Convicts 4, based on the book by John Resko, Goldman reflects with the audience on the movie. https://vimeo.com/user152026666/goldman?share=copy 1:16:35 |
