Name: The Living Justice Project
Start: 2025-09-18T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Monday Night Brewing - Social Club (Monday Night Brewing Social Club)

We're Discourse BHAM, a pop-up public lecture series bringing the most interesting academic talks to Birmingham's bars & breweries. It's like a college class, but there's drinking.
Tickets are $15. Seating is limited.
What does it mean to live your values—through conversation, reflection, and shared experience—not just in theory, but in everyday life? This talk explores the Living Justice Project (2020–2022), a global, collaborative ethnography that followed over 50 students, teachers, and practitioners as they explored what it means to live with purpose, integrity, and connection in challenging times.
Through intimate conversations and multimedia “time capsules”—including photos, videos, audio, and written reflections—collaborators responded to daily prompts, creating a rich, real-time archive of lived experience across continents. This Discourse offers both a wide-angle view of the project and a deep dive into how participants used language, memory, and the body to make sense of their pasts, engage the present, and imagine emotionally and morally charged futures. It’s a portrait of justice not as an abstract goal, but as something lived, shared, and constantly unfolding.
Sonya E. Pritzker, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama. Her work, very broadly, focuses on the intersection of language and embodied experience in relation to culturally situated ideologies of race, class, gender, health and selfhood. Integrating theories and methods from linguistic, psychological, and biocultural medical anthropology, her research emphasizes collaborative engagement and interdisciplinary approaches to advance anthropological understanding of human emotion; intimacy; physical and mental health/wellbeing; and embodiment.