The lecture is in English. Slots must be reserved in advance. Entry fee: 40 yuan. The fee will be refunded as a coupon for the store’s café (valid until August 18).
Abstract:
Prisons are part of a country’s system of governance, and prisons in different societies enforce and maintain order in various ways. As both a researcher of prisons and an organizer of prison theater programs herself, Zhang Xiaoye has 7 years of experience with the Chinese prison system and its inner workings. What kind of order does a prison enforce? How do inmates understand this order? Why do they comply and even partake in sustaining the penal order? Based on her ethnographic work, Zhang will discuss these questions and others in comparative context.
SPEAKER: ZHANG XIAOYE, assistant professor of criminal justice at East China University of Political Science and Law.
Bio: Zhang Xiaoye received her master’s degree in Applied Theater Studies from the University of London and her Ph.D. in Criminology from the City University of Hong Kong. She researches prisons and corrections systems, and her work has been published in periodicals such as The Prison Journal, The International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, and The Asian Journal of Criminology.
