Mobility and Confinement: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Incarceration in America

Tuesday, March 29, 2016  9:15am – 5:00pm

Second Floor Common Room

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 issues of central importance to the notion 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.

Participants

• Julilly Kohler-HausmannAssistant ProfessorCornell University
• Kelly Lytle HernándezAssociate Professor of HistoryUniversity of California, Los Angeles
• Elizabeth HintonAssistant Professor of History and of African and African American StudiesHarvard University
• Reuben J. MillerAssistant Professor of Social WorkUniversity of Michigan
• Donna MurchAssociate Professor of HistoryRutgers University
• Emily RyoAssistant Professor of Law and SociologyUniversity of Southern California Gould School of Law
• Juliet StumpfProfessor of LawLewis & Clark Law School
• Kristin TurneyAssociate Professor of SociologyUniversity of California, Irvine
• Michael WelchProfessor of Criminal JusticeRutgers University

Schedule for March 29, 2016