This one-day conference explores one of the most important political, economic, and legal problems in contemporary American society: mass incarceration. Assembled under the broadly defined theme of “Mobility and Confinement,” the conference addresses a wide range of topics of central importance to the issue of incarceration, such as economic mobility and poverty; the detention of migrants and refugees; the regulation of drug trafficking and the war on drugs; and the war on terror.
Presenters at this conference come from various academic disciplines, including History, Sociology, and Law, under the shared goal of provoking an interdisciplinary discussion of the complex issues of incarceration, criminal justice, and human rights.
March 29, 2016 Tuesday
9:15am - 9:30am EST
9:30am - 11:30am EST
Samuel K. Roberts
Associate Professor of History and of Sociomedical Sciences
Columbia University
Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
Assistant Professor
Cornell University
Reuben J. Miller
Assistant Professor of Social Work
University of Michigan
Kristin Turney
Associate Professor of Sociology
University of California, Irvine
11:30am - 12:30pm EST
12:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Hidetaka Hirota
Institute for Advanced Study
Waseda University
Kelly Lytle Hernández
Associate Professor of History
University of California, Los Angeles
Emily Ryo
Assistant Professor of Law and Sociology
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Juliet Stumpf
Professor of Law
Lewis & Clark Law School
2:30pm - 2:45pm EST
2:45pm - 4:45pm EST
Brian Goldstone
Franklin Humanities Institute
Duke University
Donna Murch
Associate Professor of History
Rutgers University
Elizabeth Hinton
Assistant Professor of History and of African and African American Studies
Harvard University
Michael Welch
Professor of Criminal Justice
Rutgers University
4:45pm - 5:00pm EST