Past Event
Thursday, 16 April 2009, 7 p.m.
Alan Crotzer was sentenced in 1981 to 130 years imprisonment after his conviction for sexual battery, kidnapping, and robbery. In 2006, Mr. Crotzer was freed from prison after post-conviction DNA testing proved his innocence. He had spent nearly 25 years in Florida prisons - more than half his life.
Mr. Crotzer will speak about his conviction, his fight to prove his innocence, and his life after exoneration. He will be joined by David Menschel, the lead attorney on Mr. Crotzer’s case and legal director of the Florida Innocence Project, who will discuss the exoneration process, the use of DNA testing, and the systemic defects that lead to wrongful convictions.
WHERE: Templeton Student Center Council Chamber
COST: Free
CONTACT: Rosie Ayala, Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Ethnic Studies Department, 503.768.7743
Past Event
Thursday, 5 March 2009, 7 p.m.
“The New Orleans Tea Party” is a 74-minute documentary about the rebuilding of civil society in post-Katrina New Orleans.
Filmmakers Marline Otte, Associate Professor of History, Tulane University, New Orleans, and Laszlo Fulop, Assistant Professor in the Film Deptartment at the University of New Orleans, chronicled the achievements of both the local residents and the millions of volunteers streaming to the region. “We believe that exploring the slow and painful renaissance of this singular American city - its ongoing struggle for existence - throws open a window onto the collective consciousness of a nation…”
Professor Otte will present the film and lead a Q&A following the film. The event will take place in BoDine, room 300. For more information, contact Nancy Hugg at 503-768-7378.
Past Event
Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 4 p.m.
John Bowe, author of “Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy,” will be speaking about global migrant labor and the emergence of new forms of labor trafficking and slave labor practices.
John Bowe has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, GQ, The American Prospect, PRI’s This American Life, McSweeney’s, and others
The event will take place in Howard Hall, Room 102.
