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September 2015
Restorative Justice on the Rise Presents a Public Forum w/ Maya Schenwar, Editor-In-Chief of Truthout and Author, Locked Down, Locked Out
Join us as we launch the Fall season of Restorative Justice on The Rise! We are honored and so pleased to invite you to this public forum focused on systems transformation, story-sharing, solutions, and truth-speaking to current problems and solutions both. We are creative-commons foundationed, and welcome your active participation in this special atmosphere that strives to include the greater circle present. If you have a question or comment you may either submit it here or ask it during our…
Find out more »T32 Seminar by Dr. Emily Wang: Can We Achieve Health Equity Without Addressing the Criminal Justice System?
Dr. Wang’s research focuses on promoting health equity for vulnerable populations, especially individuals with a history of incarceration, through both prison and community based intervention. She is the Co-Founder of the Transitions Clinic Network. Dr. Wang is the principal investigator on a number of NIH and institute-funded research projects, including a NHLBI-funded project to improve cardiovascular outcomes in patients with a history of incarceration. She was awarded the Junior Researcher Award from the National Academic and Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health…
Find out more »“Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice”, a Conversation with Carla Shedd, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Columbia University
DATE & TIME: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015 6:00PM TO 8:00PM “UNEQUAL CITY” Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice CARLA SHEDD Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies Columbia University Carla Shedd is Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Columbia University. Shedd received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University and her A.B. in Economics and African American Studies from Smith College. Her research and teaching interests focus on: crime and criminal justice; race and ethnicity; law and society;…
Find out more »The Heyman Center Presents Lunchtime Lecture with Bernard Stiegler on Becoming a Philosopher in Prison
TUESDAY, 29 SEPTEMBER 2015 12:15-1:30pm The Heyman Center for the Humanities, Common Room Columbia University Bernard Stiegler is a French philosopher and activist. As a leading thinker of our time, Professor Stiegler has published a number of extremely important works of social philosophy and cultural history, concerning technics, economy, aesthetics, between other subjects. He has taught at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris and directs today the Institut de Recheche et Inovation in the Centre George Pompidou, the most important contemporary…
Find out more »IRAAS Conversations Lecture with Keith Boykin
“Reconstruction: In Pursuit of Family History from 40 Acres and A Mule to Black Lives Matter” A recording of this Livestreamed event is available via the following link: http://livestream.com/accounts/5576628/events/4372458 Keith Boykin is a New York Times best-selling author and TV commentator. Educated at Dartmouth and Harvard, Keith attended law school with President Barack Obama and served in the White House as a special assistant to President Bill Clinton. He is a veteran of six political campaigns, including two presidential campaigns, and he was named…
Find out more »October 2015
“Thinking, Fast and Slow? Some Field Experiments to Reduce Crime and Dropout in Chicago”, A Seminar by Professor Sara Heller, Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania
The Columbia Population Research Center is pleased to invite you to “Thinking, Fast and Slow? Some Field Experiments to Reduce Crime and Dropout in Chicago” seminar by Sara Heller Assistant Professor of Criminology University of Pennsylvania Thursday, October 8th, 2015 12:00 – 1:00 PM Columbia School of Social Work 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, Room 1109 (between 121st and 122nd streets) Videoconference: Mailman School of Public health Department of Sociomedical Sciences 722 West 168th Street, Room 555 **Please RSVP by Tuesday, October 6th. https://cupop.formstack.com/forms/rsvp. Lunch will be provided for those…
Find out more »The Vera Institute of Justice Presents, “Beyond Innocence: Toward a Framework for Serving All Survivors of Crime”
“Beyond Innocence: Toward a Framework for Serving All Survivors of Crime” Thursday, October 8, 2015, 5:00 p.m. — 7:00 p.m. John Jay College of Criminal Justice New Building, 2nd Floor, West End Student Dining Hall 524 West 59th Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues) Join us for a conversation exploring the challenges and barriers created by our national insistence that in order to deserve help, victims should be “innocent,” some intangible yet narrow notion of purity that our culture uses to…
Find out more »The Criminal Justice T32 Fellowship Presents “Hepatitis C, HIV, and Substance Use Disorder: Economic Evaluations of Screening and Linkage to Care”
Join the Criminal Justice T32 Fellowship for the seminar “Hepatitis C, HIV, and Substance Use Disorder: Economic Evaluations of Screening and Linkage to Care” Bruce R. Schackman, PhD Professor of Healthcare Policy and Research Weill Cornell Medical College Thursday, October 8, 2015 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Columbia School of Social Work, Room 404 1255 Amsterdam Avenue Dr. Schackman focuses on economic evaluation of health interventions conducted alongside clinical trials and cohort studies, cost-effectiveness, and comparative effectiveness simulation modeling, and implementation science research—particularly relating to treatment…
Find out more »Film Screening: Natural Life, a film by Tirtza Even
Film Screening of Natural Life, a film by Tirtza Even Tuesday, October 13th, 2015, 6:30PM Barnard College, Columbia University Julius Held Lecture Hall, Third Floor, Barnard Hall Natural Life (naturallifefilm.org) is a documentary highlighting the stories of five individuals who are sentenced to life without parole for crimes they committed as a youth. The film portrays the ripple effect that the life without parole sentence has on the incarcerated youth and their families, the victim and the community at large. This…
Find out more »A Justice Working Group Seminar: “Do We Empathize Equally?”, by Devon Wade, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, Columbia University
In collaboration with The Columbia Population Research Center, The Center for Justice at Columbia is pleased to invite you to: “Do We Empathize Equally? A Closer Look at Empathic Patterns Associated with Vulnerable Youth” Justice Working Group seminar by Devon Wade Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology Columbia University Friday, October 16th, 2015 12:00 – 2:00 PM Columbia School of Social Work 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, Room 1109 (between 121st and 122nd streets) **Please RSVP to [email protected] by Wednesday, October 14th, as lunch will be provided. Abstract: This paper seeks to empirically…
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