BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN
URL:https://lectures.london/cambridge-university/aristotles-prison-a-searc
 h-for-humanity-in-tragic-places-professor-alison-liebling-/calender.ics
NAME:Lectures London
X-WR-CALNAME:Lectures London
TIMEZONE-ID:Europe/London
X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:55d0f482-ee49-476a-86b5-f08ade50e2ba
SEQUENCE:0
DTSTAMP:20261013T131516
DTSTART:20261015T170000
DTEND:20261015T190000
SUMMARY:Aristotle's Prison: A Search for Humanity in Tragic Places - Profe
 ssor Alison Liebling 
LOCATION:Cambridge University: Institute of Criminology
DESCRIPTION:In this lecture – the local ‘launch’ celebration – Ali
 son will talk about her new book\, Aristotle’s Prison: A Search for Huma
 nity in Tragic Places. She will describe how doing research in prisons ove
 r a long period of time led her to the two poles of human experience: the 
 desert (which is morally unbearable) and the oasis (where the life force i
 s affirmed). She shows how these qualitatively different poles of human ex
 perience\, starkly visible in prisons\, shape outcomes\, like suicide\, vi
 olence\, survival and moral growth. She shows how staff in outstanding pri
 sons have different dispositions\, practices and intentions from staff in 
 other\, more typical prisons. They operate with clear attention to securit
 y\, order\, and the use of authority\, but hold these values in creative t
 ension with positive underlying assumptions about prisoners\, punishment a
 nd rehabilitation. They know when to use ‘intelligent trust’ and ‘in
 telligent doubt’. Aristotle called this kind of value-balancing ‘pract
 ical wisdom’. Further information and registration here: https: www.crim
 .cam.ac.uk/events
URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/whatson/detail.shtml?uid=9c2b1e0d
 -544f-4f5b-9ffa-d071da35525d
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR