The event tackles the space of the university as a space of confinement across Latin America and Palestine, with particular attention to the ways in which these spaces mirror the violence occurring in urban settings, in addition to discussing the ways in which activists, students and academics attempt to transform these space of confinement and navigate them.
📅 16 September 2026 | 13:00–15:00 (GMT-5)
📍 Auditorio Paulo Freire, National Pedagogical University, Bogotá, Colombia
🗣️ Spanish & English
The seminar is part of the USF-funded Seminar Series Urban geographies of carcerality: from Latin America to the Middle East, which addresses the connections between geographies of carcerality in Latin America and the Middle East, two regions witnessing ever-increasing levels of urban violence, surveillance, and incarceration.