Fairfield University Conference FREE & open to the Public Wednesday October 28, 2015 FROM THE COLOR LINE TO THE CARCERAL STATE: POLICING, PRISONS, AND SURVEILLANCE
Fairfield University Conference FREE & open to the Public Wednesday October 28, 2015
FROM THE COLOR LINE TO THE CARCERAL STATE:
POLICING, PRISONS, AND SURVEILLANCE
POLICING, PRISONS, AND SURVEILLANCE
9:30 Weclome—
Dr. Lynn Babbington, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Dr. Yohuru Williams, Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
Dr. Lynn Babbington, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Dr. Yohuru Williams, Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
10:00-10:45 Keynote Address
Heather Thompson, Department of History, University of Michigan
“Why Mass Incarceration Matters: A Retrospective”
Heather Thompson, Department of History, University of Michigan
“Why Mass Incarceration Matters: A Retrospective”
Introduced by Cecelia Bucki, History Department, Fairfield University
11:00-12:15 Panel I: Historical Roots and Borders of the Carceral State
Chair/Commentator, Elizabeth Hohl, History Department, Fairfield University
Pippa Holloway, Department of History, Middle Tennessee State University
“Testimonial Incapacity as a Collateral Consequence of Criminal Conviction in the 19th-Century South”
Chair/Commentator, Elizabeth Hohl, History Department, Fairfield University
Pippa Holloway, Department of History, Middle Tennessee State University
“Testimonial Incapacity as a Collateral Consequence of Criminal Conviction in the 19th-Century South”
Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Department of History, UCLA
“Color Lines, Border Lines, and the Colonial Origins of the Carceral State”
“Color Lines, Border Lines, and the Colonial Origins of the Carceral State”
12:30-1:15 Lunch
1:30-2:45 Keynote Address
Donna Murch, Department of History Rutgers University “Transcending Punishment: Black Liberation, Resistance, and the Criminalization of America’s Most Vulnerable”
Donna Murch, Department of History Rutgers University “Transcending Punishment: Black Liberation, Resistance, and the Criminalization of America’s Most Vulnerable”
Introduced by Kris Sealey, Philosophy Department, Fairfield University
3:00-4:15 Panel II: Constructing the Carceral State in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Chair/Commentator, Jocelyn Boryczka, Politics Department, Fairfield University
Chair/Commentator, Jocelyn Boryczka, Politics Department, Fairfield University
Elizabeth Hinton, Department of Africana Studies, Harvard University
“Planning for Mass Incarceration: Prison Construction in the 1970s”
“Planning for Mass Incarceration: Prison Construction in the 1970s”
Robert T. Chase, Department of History, Stony Brook University, SUNY
“Carceral States and Horizontal State Building: Time, Space, and Place in the Construction of Mass Incarceration”
“Carceral States and Horizontal State Building: Time, Space, and Place in the Construction of Mass Incarceration”
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