UTSA Public Policy lecture series presents scholar, author and ethnographer Alice Goffman April 29

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By Michelle Skidmore
Senior Communications Specialist, College of Public Policy

(April 29, 2015) - The UTSA College of Public Policy will host a lecture by urban ethnographer, sociologist and assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Alice Goffman at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 29 in the Buena Vista Theater (BVB 1.326) on the UTSA Downtown Campus.

The lecture, “On the Run – Fugitive Life in an American City,” is presented free and open to the public as part of the college’s Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series.

Goffman is an urban ethnographer who grew up in Philadelphia, attended graduate school at Princeton and now teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her lecture will draw upon her six years of fieldwork in Philadelphia, which she details in her best-selling book “On the Run.” The book details the lives of young men growing up as suspects and fugitives in the area’s segregated Black neighborhoods torn apart by the war on crime and unprecedented levels of targeted imprisonment.

The UTSA College of Public Policy Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series features scholars and policy analysts on a variety of major issues that affect the community, the nation and the world. Lectures are free and open to the public, and free parking is available in Lot D-3 beneath IH-35.

Light refreshments will be served in the Buena Vista Street Building Meeting Assembly Room (1.338) immediately following the lecture. A representative from the UTSA Bookstore will onsite from 5:00 – 7:30 p.m. to sell copies of “On the Run.” The book store will sell paperback copies for $16.00 plus tax.

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For more information, contact Michelle Skidmore at michelle.skidmore@utsa.edu or 210-458-3213

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