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
9:30 Weclome—
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”
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”
Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Department of History, UCLA
“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”
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
Elizabeth Hinton, Department of Africana Studies, Harvard University
“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”

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