Ruth Wilson Gilmore, an Associate Professor of Geography and Director of the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California will give a lecture "Gender, Race and the Landscapes of Social Justice: Our Struggle to Understand and Dismantle the Prison Industrial Complex," Tuesday, Jan. 23 at The Evergreen State College's Tacoma campus. Gilmore's lectures are at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. A live interactive video broadcast of the lecture will be available on the Olympia campus at Lecture Hall 1.

The Tacoma campus is located at 1210 6th Avenue.

Gilmore recently completed a book on the political economy of California's significant prison expansion since 1982, and the urban and rural grassroots opposition to the expansion.

The talk is sponsored by the college's 2006-2007 Diversity Series. For more information go to http://www.evergreen.edu/genderandrace/ruthwilsongilmore.html. The lectures are free and open to the public.