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March 2018
BEYOND THE BARS 2018
Beyond the Bars: Closing Jails and Prisons March 1-4, 2018 The 8th annual Beyond the Bars Conference of the Center for Justice at Columbia University seeks to contribute to the growing movement to close jails and prisons as a part of the larger struggle to end mass incarceration. In particular, we will focus on elevating the efforts led by grassroots organizers that include formerly incarcerated and directly impacted people. Prison and jail closings have been taking place unevenly throughout the…
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After Attica: Criminal Justice and Mass Incarceration
DESCRIPTION History doesn’t always speak so directly to the present, but Heather Ann Thompson’s Pulitzer-winning account of the 1971 Attica Uprisings is in direct conversation with more recent coverage by the New York Times, also recognized by Pulitzer for investigative reporting in 2017. Our panelists will examine the social and historical forces at work in the American penal system and explain the investigative work behind their findings. Heather Ann Thompson, author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising…
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Justice Working Group Talk: Dark Inquiry, creators of Bail Bloc
Spring Justice Working Group Series: Mark Hansen and Michael Krisch, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University Date: Thursday, March 22nd, 2018 Time: 4-6pm Location: Jerome Greene Annex (see directions below) Please join us for our second talk in the Spring Justice Working Group series, featuring Dark Inquiry, the creators of Bail Bloc (www.bailbloc.thenewinquiry.com). Bail Bloc is more than a distributed currency mining app that raises money to post bail, it's an example of what Dark Inquiry calls "Rhetorical Software"; software…
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Ghost Hunting: A film by Raed Andoni
FILM | Ghost Hunting Tuesday, March 27, 2018 6:00 PM 8:00 PM Lenfest Center for the Arts615 West 129th Street, New York, NY, 10027United States (map) Google Calendar ICS Ghost Hunting. A film by Raed Andoni. Screening and Q&A with the director and Professor James Schamus. Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room, Lenfest Center for the Arts, Columbia University Director Raed Andoni places a newspaper advertisement in Ramallah. He is looking for former inmates of the Moskobiya interrogation centre in Jerusalem. In his…
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Introduction to Peacemaking Circles with Kay Pranis
Introduction to Peacemaking Circles with Kay PranisMarch 29th and 30th 9:30am - 4:30pm - Both days are required Teachers College About Peacemaking Circles The Peacemaking Circle training is an opportunity for anyone interested in conflict resolution, community building or restorative justice to increase their skills and knowledge for having difficult conversations. The peacemaking circle is a dialogue process useful for increasing understanding among different perspectives and for creating effective solutions to long-standing issues of conflict or disconnection. The circle strives…
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Lecture: The Roma in Europe: Between State Law and Human Rights
We are very excited to announce that this Thursday, April 5 the Social Relations Lab at the Center for Justice in partnership with the Roma Peoples Project at Columbia University will have a special guest: anthropologist Ana Ivasiuc who lives in Germany and is the recipient of the 2017 Herder-Council for European Studies fellowship. This is a follow-up of a panel in Chicago last week together with our Director, Professor Geraldine Downey. Ana Ivasiuc will talk about the way that…
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We are Witnesses: Screening and Panel event
The American criminal justice system consists of 2.2 million people behind bars, plus tens of millions of family members, corrections and police officers, parolees, victims of crime, judges, prosecutors and defenders. In We Are Witnesses, we hear their stories. This event will feature a screening of 4 of the short films in the We are Witnesses series, followed by a panel discussion and reception.
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HEAR & NOW: An Interactive Oral History Exhibit
HEAR & NOW is a multimedia pop-up presenting the fieldwork of scholars who are also activists, researchers who are also storytellers, oral historians who are also community members. The exhibit will include work by *Valerie Fendt, oral historian and volunteer with the Prison Education Program at Columbia University, on Comparative Classrooms: Teaching to Transgress How do we value education, who benefits from it, and what are the impacts of Columbia classes inside of state correctional facilities? *Inspired by radical educators, like bell…
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FROM INFERNO TO METAMORPHOSIS: BUILDING A MOVEMENT TO END MASS PUNISHMENT
A talk by James Forman, Jr. (Yale University School of Law) April 12, 2018 6:00 pm Columbia Law School, room 103 Professor Forman is the author of Locking up our own: Crime and Punishment in Black America and a leading critic in mass incarceration. Presented by the Center for American Studies with support from the Jack Miller Center
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