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Beyond Bars: The Hidden Costs of the Criminal Legal System

Nasher Museum of Art 2001 Campus Drive, Durham

Join the Wilson Center for Science and Justice for a discussion of the wide-ranging impacts of the criminal legal system on individuals and communities. Students, attorneys, and advocates will be in conversation with artist Sherrill Roland, in conjunction with the exhibition, Processing Systems: Numbers by Sherrill Roland. A reception to follow. Cosponsored by the Wilson
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How Fashion is Failing Us

Presenter: Mila de Souza, SPL Fellow In the past, fashion has been aligned with fashion shows and trends only, but we are now relating fashion to bigger theoretical questions. Some of these questions include: Are American companies who buy from factories in other countries responsible for the human rights violations committed in those factories? What
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