Center for Justice at Columbia University, Upcoming Center for Justice Events, December 2-16, 2015

Upcoming Center for Justice Events: December 2 - December 16, 2015  A Society of Fellows in the Humanities Event: Teaching Contemporary Civilization in Prison Thu, Dec 3, 2015 @ 12:15PM Common Room, Second Floor The Heyman Center Columbia University, Morningside Campus New York, NY Joshua Dubler is Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Rochester and a former postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University from 2008-2011. His book Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison (FSG, 2013) is based on his PhD dissertation (Princeton University)—an ethnographic study of the chapel at the Pennsylvania State Correctional Facility at Graterford.  His forthcoming book entitled Break Every Yoke: Religion, Power, and the End of Mass Incarceration, looks to marshal religious resources toward prison abolition.  As a postdoctoral fellow, he taught Columbia’s Core course Contemporary Civilization in Graterford Prison, and his talk will reflect on that teaching experience. Sponsors Society of Fellows in the Humanities Heyman Center for the Humanities The Immigration Act of 1965: Book Launch and Conversation               December 3, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Columbia Law School Jerome Greene Hall Case Lounge, 7th Fl 435 W 116th St New York, NY 10027 The Center for the Study of Law and Culture invites you to attend "The Immigration Act of 1965," a conversation celebrating therecent publication of "The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act: Legislating a New America."  The conversation will take place on December 3 at 4:00 p.m. in Case Lounge.     Columbia Law School Visiting Professor Rose Villazor (LL.M., '06) edited the first book devoted to the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments, along with Professor Gabriel J. Chin of U.C. Davis School of Law. The text places current-day immigration debates in context and provides historically informed policy suggestions. Panelists will explore the connections between the Immigration Act and the "civil rights revolution" of the 1960s and the  ways we talk and think about "race" law and politics. The Confined Arts: Art Exhibition and Conference Dec. 4 - Dec. 6, 2015 The Heyman Center Common Room, Second Floor Justice-in-Education Initiative This 3rd edition of The Confined Arts (TCA) will be a 40-day art exhibition launched at an opening weekend consisting of art, poetry, motivational speaking, panel discussions, a promotional screening, hands-on workshops, and more. TCA is a platform to illustrate and showcase the talents of currently and formerly incarcerated creative voices. We are creative voices that speak through our visual art, performing art, poetry, and music. We speak as creative voices in order to abolish the inhuman narratives and socially degrading stigmas that are used to describe our past experiences and limit our futures. We’ve set out to establish new empathic narratives about who we are. The TCA platform is also open to those artists who work in or around jails and prisons, or are in other ways linked to the issue of mass incarceration. TCA is also home to artists who have been affected by mass incarceration due to the imprisonment of a friend or family member. This event is free and open to the public. Photo ID needed for entry. Sponsors Heyman Center Public Humanities Initiative The Center for Justice at Columbia University Public Humanities Initiative:  Justice Poetry featuring the BreakBeat Poets Wed, Dec 9, 2015 @ 6:15PM The Schapiro Center, Davis Auditorium An evening of justice poetry featuring the editors and contributor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop. Poets read from their new and published works related to issues of justice and discuss the events and experiences that inspired them. Poets featured will be Angel Nafis, Kevin Coval, Nate Marshall. Sponsors Heyman Center Public Humanities Initiative The Center for Justice at Columbia University What Does it Mean to be Young, Black and Female in America?: A Few Perspectives from Youth Wed, Dec 9, 2015 6-8 p.m. Teachers College, Columbia University Room: Horace Mann 150 Facilitators Jessica Penn, Senior Aichatou Nimaga, Senior Lanasia McMillan, Junior Janell Jones, Junior Fatoumata Sankare, Senior China Camacho, History Teacher Team Leader Ingrid Chung, Assistant Principal The Urban Assembly School for Applied Math & Science Join us for the next Racial Literacy Round table of the 2015-2016 academic year. For the third year in a row, all round table topics are dedicated to the lives of young people. Topics will explore how race intersects with language, life, and literacy practices, as well as the in- and out-of-school experiences of school-age youth, some of whom are court-involved and in foster care. The Center for Justice © 2015 Columbia University