UPCOMING APPEARANCES
March 26, 2012 at 4 PM–Lucas will present the 2012 Merle Kling Honors Undergraduate Fellowship Lecture on “Prisoners, Families, and Performance: Community Engagement Through the Arts” at Washington University in Saint Louis, MO
April 19 & 20, 2012—Lucas will perform Doin’ Time: Through the Visiting Glass at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky
PAST APPEARANCES
February 22-24, 2012–Lucas presented a paper entitled “How the Razor Wire Binds Us: Incarcerated Women and Their Families” and ran an advocacy working group which drafter the Prison Family Bill of Rights at the Prisoner’s Family Conference in Albuquerque, NM
December 7, 2011 from 4 to 6 PM–Lucas signed copies of Razor Wire Women at UNC’s Institute for Arts and Humanities in Hyde Hall, as part of the annual holiday reception to celebrate new publications by fellows of the institute.
December 5, 2011 at 5 PM–Lucas was among the UNC faculty members recognized for books published in 2011 which offered significant contributions to the field of African American Studies. Dr. Reginald Hildebrand, interim director of UNC’s Institute for African American Research, lauded Razor Wire Women as an important work of social justice scholarship.
November 17, 2011 at 7 PM–Lawston and Lucas held a book reading and signing event at the Regulator Bookshop in Durham, North Carolina
November 15, 2011 at 2 PM–Lawston and Lucas held a book reading and signing event in the Kenan Theatre in the Center for Dramatic Art at UNC Chapel Hill
November 12, 2011 at 7 PM–Lucas performed Doin’ Time: Through the Visiting Glass as the keynote performance at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference in Atlanta, GA; Lawston will join Lucas in the discussion and book-signing following the performance. (See the poster for Doin’ Time at NWSA: Poster for NWSA 2011)
November 11, 2011 at 4 PM–Lawston and Lucas signed copies of RWW at SUNY Press’s booth in the book exhibition hall at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference at the Sheraton Hotel in Atlanta, GA
November 2, 2011–Lucas spoke about Razor Wire Women on a panel preceding a performance of Self Defense (a play about Aileen Wurnous) at the UNC Greensboro Theatre
October 17, 2011–Lawston and Lucas participated in a book reading event from 3 to 5 PM at the University of California, San Diego, sponsored by the Ethnic Studies Department
October 7, 2011–A Conversation with Ashley Lucas on “Prisoners, Activists, Scholars, Students and Artists: Doing Work In/On Prisons,” hosted by the Residential College and the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan
October 2, 2011–Lucas performed Doin’ Time: Through the Visiting Glass at Trent University: poster for Trent U
September 3o, 2011 —Lucas performed Doin’ Time: Through the Visiting Glass at Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener, Ontario
September 29, 2011—Lucas performed Doin’ Time: Through the Visiting Glass at the University of Toronto: Toronto poster
August 19-21, 2011—Lawston and Lucas co-presented a paper entitled “From Representations to Resistance: How the Razor Wire Binds Us” at the conference for the Society for the Study of Social Problems in Las Vegas, NV
August 20-23, 2011—Lawston and Lucas spoke on a roundtable entitled “Research and Writing for Social Change” at the American Sociological Association conference in Las Vegas, NV
August 11-14, 2011—Ashley Lucas and Sara Warner spoke on a roundtable about Razor Wire Women at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education conference in Chicago, IL
August 11-14, 2011—Lucas performed monologues from and speak about her play Doin’ Time on a panel entitled “Unsettled Remains: Blurring Boundaries in Contemporary Documentary Theater” at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education conference in Chicago, IL
May 16-19, 2011—Lawston and Lucas presented a paper entitled “Las representaciones de Estados Unidos: las mujeres encarceladas” at the VIII Taller Internacional: Mujeres en el Siglo XXI, hosted by the Women’s Studies Department at the University of Havana, Cuba
