Events
Cosponsors
- Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
- Center for Justice
- The Ladies of Hope Ministries
Organizer
- Hidetaka Hirota, Society of Fellows, Columbia University
Notes
- Free and open to the public
- No registration necessary
- First come, first seated
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.
Program
time9:15am - 9:30am EDT
Opening
time9:30am - 11:30am EDT
Imprisonment and Poverty
Chair
Samuel K. Roberts
Associate Professor of History and of Sociomedical Sciences
Columbia University
"Welfare Fraud and the Criminalization of Family Poverty in the 1970s"
Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
Assistant Professor
Cornell University
“'You're in a Room Full of Addicts!'” Prisoner Reentry as a Social Institution and the 'Making up' of the Ex-Offender"
Reuben J. Miller
Assistant Professor of Social Work
University of Michigan
"Maternal Incarceration and Family Functioning in Fragile Families"
Kristin Turney
Associate Professor of Sociology
University of California, Irvine
time11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
Lunch Break
time12:30pm - 2:30pm EDT
Arresting and Detaining Migrants
Chair
Hidetaka Hirota
Institute for Advanced Study
Waseda University
"Caged Birds: Immigration Control and the Rise of Mexican Imprisonment in the United States"
Kelly Lytle Hernández
Associate Professor of History
University of California, Los Angeles
"Developing Legal Cynicism through Immigration Detention"
Emily Ryo
Assistant Professor of Law and Sociology
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
"Detaining Children: Looking for Wrongs in All the Right Places"
Juliet Stumpf
Professor of Law
Lewis & Clark Law School
time2:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
Coffee Break
time2:45pm - 4:45pm EDT
The War on Drugs, The War on Terror
Chair
Brian Goldstone
Franklin Humanities Institute
Duke University
"The Carceral City: Los Angeles, Race and Punishment in the Neoliberal Era"
Donna Murch
Associate Professor of History
Rutgers University
"Preemptive Policies and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: How National Policymakers Fought Urban Crime"
Elizabeth Hinton
Assistant Professor of History and of African and African American Studies
Harvard University
"Renditions to Kafka-land: The Case of Mohamedou Ould Slahi"
Michael Welch
Professor of Criminal Justice
Rutgers University
time4:45pm - 5:00pm EDT
Closing
Participants
- Brian Goldstone Franklin Humanities Institute Duke University
- Julilly Kohler-Hausmann Assistant Professor Cornell University
- Kelly Lytle Hernández Associate Professor of History University of California, Los Angeles
- Elizabeth Hinton Assistant Professor of History and of African and African American Studies Harvard University
- Hidetaka Hirota Institute for Advanced Study Waseda University
- Reuben J. Miller Assistant Professor of Social Work University of Michigan
- Donna Murch Associate Professor of History Rutgers University
- Samuel K. Roberts Associate Professor of History and of Sociomedical Sciences Columbia University
- 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
- Kristin Turney Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine
- Michael Welch Professor of Criminal Justice Rutgers University