Join us for an evening with Sonya E. Pritzker, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alabama, whose work explores the powerful intersections of language, embodiment, and social justice.
January 27, 2026
5:30–7:00 PM
Brick House
Drawing from linguistic, psychological, and biocultural medical anthropology, Dr. Pritzker’s research centers on how race, class, gender, health, and selfhood are lived and felt in the body. Her work emphasizes collaboration and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding emotion, intimacy, wellbeing, and embodied experience.
Dr. Pritzker will discuss her book Living Toward Justice: A Time Capsule, an illustrated and immersive exploration of embodied social justice (ESJ). The book documents three collaborative time capsules created in 2022, when 54 practitioners came together to respond to the question: “What does it look, feel, and sound like to live (toward) justice in your life?”
Through photographs, video and audio recordings, and written reflections, Living Toward Justice offers a vivid snapshot of a community grappling with justice in a complex historical moment. The book also opens an essential dialogue about embodied practices; such as yoga, ecstatic dance, somatic psychotherapy, meditation, martial arts, and more, addressing ongoing concerns around cultural appropriation, representation, diversity, and social analysis within these spaces.
This event is ideal for readers, scholars, practitioners, and anyone interested in social justice, embodiment, and community-based inquiry.
Books will be available for purchase.
Registration is encouraged.
