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April 2014
Behind the Bars of Paradise: HIV and Social Determination Among Incarcerated Populations in the Caribbean – The Incarceration Working Group
The Incarceration Working group is a brown bag seminar series for faculty, researchers and PhD students interested in and conducting research in the areas of incarceration and criminal justice coordinated by the Columbia Population Research Center and the Justice Initiative at Columbia University. Behind the Bars of Paradise: HIV and Social Determination Among Incarcerated Populations in the Caribbean Carlos Rodriquez Diaz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Public Health Monday April 28th, 2014 2:30 – 3:30pm Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia…
Find out more »At the Intersection of Education and Criminal Justice: A Community Dialogue
Join TC faculty, students and staff, along with colleagues from the School of Social Work and the Law School, for a community meeting and dialogue to unpack the social, economic and racial justice issues at the intersections of the education and criminal justice systems and collectively explore opportunities for further engagement of these issues at TC Monday April 28th, 2014 – 4:30 – 6:00pm Teachers College – Grace Dodge Rm 543 Co-Sponsored by: The Teachers College Vice President’s Diversity and…
Find out more »Social Work and Criminal Justice: Community Dialogue
Social Work and Criminal Justice: Community Dialogue Wednesday April 30th, 2014 Columbia University School of Social Work 12:30-2:00pm / Room 805 Please join faculty, administration and students for an informal discussion on how CSSW can collectively support you academically and experientially in the field of Criminal Justice and Social Work. We invite both first and second year students to join us to share your experiences in the field and in the classroom across methods and fields of practice as we work…
Find out more »May 2014
Marijuana & Drug Policy Reform in New York—The LaGuardia Report at 70
The LaGuardia Report at 70 Marijuana & Drug Policy Reform in New York—The LaGuardia Report at 70 A Symposium Hosted by The New York Academy of Medicine and the Drug Policy Alliance Register here Thursday, May 1 Hosack Hall, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue 6:00 PM: Introductions Jo Ivey Boufford, M.D., President, The New York Academy of Medicine Paul Theerman, Ph.D., Associate Director, Center for the History of Medicine, The New York Academy of Medicine 6:15 PM: The John…
Find out more »Ride for Rights Bike-A-Thon
On Saturday May 3rd, 2014 from 10:30am to 3:00pm – the Youth Advisory Board (our semester-long program for youth ages 14 to 18 who have an incarcerated parent) will host their second annual RIDE FOR RIGHTS bike-a-thon to raise awareness about the rights and experiences of children with incarcerated parents. Details are attached. Please come on out with your bike and ride around Prospect Park for a good cause and lots of fun! Please also share this event and encourage people…
Find out more »Devising Freedom Series
Foundry Dialogues continue in May with four events (May 12, 14, 19 & 21) looking at our criminal legal system towards building new and authentic safety for us all. Dynamic visiting practitioners and analysts will join local organizers to discuss the “new Jim Crow” of mass incarceration, the policing of gender, transformative justice practice and how social justice movements get built. This is a rare gathering of people who walk the talk of radical imagining. Don’t miss this! More information on…
Find out more »June 2014
Injustice and Mass Incarceration: A Threat to Public Health
Please join the Mailman School’s Incarceration and Public Health Initiative for Injustice and Mass Incarceration: A Threat to Public Health onJune 3. This talk will be given by Bryan Stevenson, a lawyer who is known nationally for challenging bias against the poor and people of color. At the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative, Stevenson leads a team of litigators who advocate on behalf of people wrongly convicted or charged with violent crimes and others whose trials are marked by racial bias or prosecutorial misconduct. Injustice and Mass…
Find out more »Talks at the Schomburg: Stuck In Segregation
Throughout history, legal and de facto forms of segregation have restricted the ability of black communities to fully access housing, education, and banking. A long-fought battle before the civil rights movement, the complexity of today’s patterns of segregation takes many forms within public policy, income, and racial discrimination. This provocative conversation will explore new ideas, history, and the contemporary construction of segregation. Join panelists Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Atlantic), Patrick Sharkey (New York University), and Richard Rothstein (Economic Policy Institute) and moderator Farai…
Find out more »Surveillance City: The War on Drugs in Urban Neighborhoods
Presented by the Center for New York City Affairs at The New School 2014 Nathan Levin Lecture on Public Policy The War on Drugs has created a powerful surveillance state in America’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods. High-tech techniques criminalize entire blocks and transform informal community networks into liabilities for local residents as police use family relationships to demand information, pursue suspects and threaten incarceration. The presumption of criminality takes a relentless toll. Our 2014 Nathan Levin Lecturer, sociologist Alice Goffman, spent six…
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