February 2008 training

LAW AND ORAL HISTORY WORKSHOPS FOR POTENTIAL INTERNS AND VOLUNTEERS
February 2008

Sunday, February 3, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Legal overview - Steps in a capital punishment case in Texas
Walter C. Long

Sunday, February 10 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Oral history overview: Methods, ethics, & equipment
Mark Westmoreland & Antony Cherian, Co-directors, Seed Documentary Co-operative

Walter C. Long is an attorney who has represented or assisted in the representation of death row inmates for over a decade; his presentation will review capital punishment trials, state and federal appeals and habeas corpus proceedings, and relevant international law. Mark Westmoreland and Antony Cherian are documentary filmmakers whose “Truth I Ever Told” – based on oral histories in a Black farming community in rural Washington County, Texas -- won the American Folklore Society’s 2002 Zora Neale Hurston Prize. Westmoreland is also a doctoral candidate in Anthropology, and Cherian a doctoral student in the School of Information, both at the University of Texas at Austin.

Both workshops will take place at the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, 100 East 27th Street, Austin, directly north of the UT Austin main campus.

Enrollment is limited to current and prospective interns and volunteers with the Texas After Violence Project. For more information please call 916.1600 or 877.916.TAVP or write to Virginia Raymond at virginia@texasafterviolence.org