May 16, 2013
Series
Time spent in prison has prompted some of the most profound and insightful writing we know, from Don Quixote to Civil Disobedience. Damien Echols—whose nearly twenty years spent in prison as part of the wrongfully-accused "West Memphis Three" was the subject of the documentary West of Memphis—has written a memoir of injustice, compassion, and redemption in Life after Death. He'll be joined in conversation with Shaka Senghor, an MIT Media Lab Director's Fellow, motivational speaker, and youth mentor whose inspirational memoir of his time in and after prison is entitled Writing My Wrongs.
Discover the transformative, restorative power of writing in this frank and wide-ranging conversation. This event is co-presented with the Boston Book Festival. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Prison Book Program. Tickets, which are $12 in advance or $15 at the door, include a drink ticket and light refreshments. Standing-room tickets ($5) are available to MIT students with ID.
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To the Moon to Stay - From the Moon with Love
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MLTalks—Inventive Minds: Marvin Minsky on Education
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MLTalks—The lowdown on the high seas: What we don’t know about the oceans can kill us
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MLTalks—Perspectives on creativity and failure
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MLTalks with Douglas Rushkoff—Team Human: How people, together, can rule the digital future
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MLTalks: A bit about computer crime and digital evidence with Jan Fuller
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MLTalks: Hoops, Tech, and Justice
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MLTalks: Experiential Storytelling with Walt Disney Imagineering
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MLTalks: Explaining the MacArthur Fellowship
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MLTalks: Curious Minds
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MLTalks: Ibram X. Kendi in conversation with Danielle Wood
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MLTalks: How Data Killed Facts Jill Lepore in conversation with Andrew Lippman
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MLTalks: Undocumented students, equal access to higher education, and Freedom University Georgia
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MLTalks: Neal Stephenson
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Quantifying Forgiveness: MLTalks with Julia Angwin and Joi Ito
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MLTalks: Transhumanism: Searching for the Spirit in the Machine
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MLTalks: Lars Jan
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MLTalks: Margarita Mora
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MLTalks: Moral urgency of non-violent movements
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MLTalks: Warren Ellis
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MLTalks: Nichole Pinkard and Deb Roy
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MLTalks: Helene Langevin, MD, and Peter Wayne, PhD
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MLTalks: Building a toolbox for nonviolent resistance
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MLTalks: Intisar Rabb and Manal Omar
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MLTalks: Joi Ito and the Presidential Innovation Fellows
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MLTalks: Diane Peters, Jane Park, Ryan Merkley and Johnathan Nightingale in conversation with Joi Ito
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MLTalks: Helen Margetts
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MLTalks: Sherry Turkle
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MLTalks: Sherry Turkle (captioned)
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MLTalks: Andrew "bunnie" Huang
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MLTalks: Andrew "bunnie" Huang (captioned)
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MLTalks: Gavin Andresen, Cory Fields, and Wladimir van der Laan
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MLTalks: Marco Kaltofen
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MLTalks: Marco Kaltofen (captioned)
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MLTalks: Theo Jansen, Neri Oxman, and Trevor Smith
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MLTalks: Alfredo Corchado
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MLTalks: Alfredo Corchado (captioned)
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MLTalks: Dr. Temple Grandin
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Media Lab Conversations Series: Guts and Genius
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MLTalks: Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin and Cameron Kerry
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MLTalks: Sam Kass
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MLTalks: Joi Ito and the Director's Fellows
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MLTalks: Challenges in the Fight Against Ebola
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MLTalks: Masashi Kawamura
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MLTalks: B. Alan Wallace
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MLTalks: Sarah Parcak
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MLTalks: Katy Croff Bell
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MLTalks: Judith Donath
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MLTalks: Rob Pardo
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MLTalks: George Church
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MLTalks: Peter Grauer, Vladimir Kliatchko, and Shawn Edwards
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MLTalks: Jaron Lanier
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MLTalks: Shaka Senghor and Martha Minow
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MLTalks: Chris Woebken
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MLTalks: Colleen Macklin
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MLTalks: Khalida Brohi
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MLTalks: Jillian York
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MLTalks: Daniel Suarez
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MLTalks: Mark Bauman
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MLTalks: Jack Schulze
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MLTalks: IDEO's David and Tom Kelley
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MLTalks: Beth Noveck
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MLTalks: Damien Echols and Shaka Senghor Now Viewing
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MLTalks: Greg Brandeau and Josh Sarantitis
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MLTalks: Yancey Strickler
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MLTalks: Susan Crawford
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MLTalks: Baratunde Thurston
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Media Lab Conversations Series: JJ Abrams
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Media Lab Conversations Series: Carroll Bogert
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MLTalks: Sugata Mitra
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MLTalks: Howard Rheingold
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MLTalks: Tim O'Reilly
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MLTalks: Reid Hoffman
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MLTalks: Lawrence Lessig
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MLTalks: Tim Brown