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Dying in Prison: Multi-Media Approaches to Documenting Harm and Imagining Alternatives

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Educational/Awareness Art exhibition Documentary

Thu, Oct 1, 2026

4:30 PM – 6:30 PM PDT (GMT-7)

McCormack Screening Room & Orange County & Southeast Asian Archive

611 Humanities Ct, Irvine, CA 92617, United States

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Please join us for a film-screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary "I am Ready, Warden" in the McCormack Screening Room, followed by a panel with the film’s director, acclaimed journalist Keri Blakinger and MacArthur Grant Winner Andrea Armstrong, a law professor renowned for documenting deaths in Louisiana prisons. Following the screening (of the 37-minute film), the panel will take place in the OC&SEAA exhibit space across from Langson Library. Panel attendees will have special access to a fall exhibit highlighting PrisonPandemic, a UCI project to archive incarcerated Californian’s COVID-19 experiences. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with Blakinger and Armstrong about their different approaches to documenting death and dying in prison, as well as to explore the PrisonPandemic exhibit, which includes art, letters, ephemera, and audio recorded selections (including recorded narratives playing through four refurbished prison phones with which the audience will be able to interact) from the PrisonPandemic archive. Light refreshments will be served.

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McCormack Screening Room & Orange County & Southeast Asian Archive

611 Humanities Ct, Irvine, CA 92617, United States

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