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“Are You Slow?”: Seven Years with San Francisco's Hit Doctors

Aug 06 2026
Author Sarah Brothers on the importance and challenges of "hit doctors."
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Futures Beyond Control

Aug 06 2026
Author Jia-Lin Liu speaks about the already determined futures for many children in China.
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Q&A with Carly Thomsen, author of Reproductive Justice, Queerly

Aug 03 2026
An interview between Public Seminar writer Gil Bittner and author Carly Thomsen about Thomsen's new book, Reproductive Justice, Queerly.
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Former Prisons and the Power of Place

Jul 29 2026
Author Michael Welch discusses the Bastille Effect, or the unique ways that former prisons and detention centers are transformed, both physically and culturally.
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For Immigrant Families, Carework is Resistance

Jul 29 2026
Author Sarah Bruhn on how immigrant women’s carework is as critical as public protest to contesting the hardships imposed by immigration enforcement practices.
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The Cultural History of Prisons

Jun 23 2026
Author Michael Welch on how he discovered the "pull of punishment," by which visitors are drawn into the cultural history of prisons, unfolding at former prisons.
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Societies Contoured Along Penal Power

May 22 2026
Author Michael Welch presents an excerpt from his new book about the enduring meaning of containment and surveillance in post-conflict societies.
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Q&A with Benjamin R. Weiss, author of "The Price of Justice"

May 21 2026
Author Benjamin R. Weiss on whether civil lawsuits are actually effective for victims of sexual violence.
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How Prisons Manage Gender Boundaries—and How That’s Changed Over Time

May 20 2026
Author Joss T. Greene traces how changing prison systems have shaped the treatment of transgender prisoners across decades.
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Meeting Microbes Halfway: A Conversation with the Authors of a New "Gastronomica" Special Section

Apr 15 2026
Two special sections of "Gastronomica" place the spotlight on microbes to explicitly draw our attention to this invisible layer of life in foods and food systems.
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