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April 2015
Criminal Justice: The State Of Our Prisons and Jails In NYS Part II
Part of the National Action Network Annual National Convention. Attendance is free but guests must register at www.nationalactionnetwork.net Panelist Bios: Dr. Divine Pryor is currently the Executive Director of the Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions located at 510 Gates Ave in the heart of Bedford Stuyvesant Brooklyn. The Center offers an alternative voice in the analysis of criminal and social justice issues, by including the combined lived and academic experience and expertise of people who have first hand knowledge of the social,…
Find out more »Film Screening and Panel Discussion: Selma
Registration is now closed for the screening. There may still be spots on the waitlist. You can check via this link. Presented by the Office of University Life and co-sponsored by the Center for Justice Selma invites us to consider important questions about race, justice, organizing and advocacy. Though the film depicts events of a half-century ago, questions about how societies address injustice and wrestle with social change remain pressing today – both in the world at large and…
Find out more »New York Reentry Roundtable
Kindly RSVP to Gabriel Torres-Rivera at [email protected] or call 212.614.5306
Find out more »Rethinking Research Methods: A Talk by Bernard Harcourt
Presented by the Vera Institute of Justice as a part of the Research Speaker Series. Professor Bernard Harcourt will explore the status of research methods in criminal justice, investigate the relationship between research and public policy, and discuss future directions. Bernard E. Harcourt studies and writes about punishment and political economy. He is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia University, the Director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, and directeur d’études at the École…
Find out more »Book Talk: Rightlessness in an Age of Rights
Professor Ayten Gündoğdu, assistant professor of political science at Barnard, will present on her new book Rightlessness in an Age of Rights, which offers new readings of Hannah Arendt’s political theory in order to examine the challenging human rights issues arising in thecontext of immigration detention, deportation, refugee encampment, and struggles for regularization. For more information, click here. A Q&A session will follow the presentation. Pizza and refreshments will be served. Sponsored by Columbia University’s Institute for Human Rights
Find out more »Intimate Partner Violence: A Challenge for Community Supervision
Co-hosted by the Prisoner Reentry Institute and the NYC Department of Probation, the event will feature keynote speaker Dr. Louisa Gilbert, LMSW, of Columbia University’s School of Social Work, and will be moderated by NYC Probation Commissioner Ana Bermúdez. Dr. Gilbert will present IPV data from WINGS, a computerized brief intervention that addresses intimate partner violence among clients under community supervision. The event will include a panel discussion moderated by Ms. Bermúdez, featuring Probation Branch Chief Brenda Davis, Virginia Lasoki of the…
Find out more »Justice Working Group
The Justice Working Group is a collaborative effort of the Columbia Population Research Center (CPRC) and the Center for Justice to assemble faculty, research scientists and fellows, graduate students and community partners in order to share and discuss work in the field of criminal justice. We welcome participants from various disciplines and institutions. Incarceration and Household Labor Supply Morgan Williams, CUNY Graduate Center Examining “Ban the Box”: Comments on Impact, Implications and Future Directions Ronald Day, Fortune Society & John…
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UNLOCKING FEMALE INCARCERATION: A Panel Discussion
Wednesday, April 22nd 6:30-8:00pm Columbia University Schapiro Studio 605 West 115th Street, Lower Level Panelists: Anne Patterson, LMSW Director, Justice Involved Services STEPS to End Family Violence Raquel Almazan Playwright, La Paloma Prisoner Brigette Harris Formerly Incarcerated Individual Chitra Aiyar Executive Director Sadie Nash Leadership Project Moderated by Caits Meissner Poet, Storyteller & Arts Educator Join social justice scholars and advocates to learn about and discuss the real issues that face women in the prison system, such as: inadequate access to health care, violent abuse that…
Find out more »Phillip Lopate and Kiese Laymon In Conversation: Notes of a Native Son
Columbia University School of the Arts Office of Community Outreach and Education presents Phillip Lopate and Kiese Laymon In Conversation: Notes of a Native Son, as a part of the Year of James Baldwin Spring 2015 Conversation Series. RSVP HERE Published in 1955, James Baldwin’s uncompromising debut collection of essays Notes of a Native Sonannounced him as a major force in the genre of the American essay. The volume remains a resonant analysis of subjects at once literary and political. Tackling…
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