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January 2015
2015 Spring Conference Policy-to-Practice: Transformative Governance Strategies to Enhance Public Mental Health
New York City is seeing a range of ambitious efforts to tackle important criminal justice and other issues through mental health solutions. This conference brings local, national, and international leaders together to illustrate different approaches to more transformative public mental health governance, and invites participants to consider and give feedback as to how such approaches might take root in New York City. REGISTER HERE View Detailed Panel Description
Find out more »Dr. Carla Shedd presents “Tracking the Carceral Continuum: The Case of Urban Youth”
Dr. Shedd will present preliminary findings from her study of several NYC juvenile delinquency courtrooms that use standardized court observation instruments, ethnography, interviews, and court file data to capture myriad social factors that impact young people’s legal outcomes. This work addresses several limitations in the extant literature by moving beyond micro-level analyses of juvenile justice system contact to better understand the larger nexus of state-based interventions in the lives of urban youth. Carla Shedd is assistant professor of sociology and African American…
Find out more »February 2015
We Can’t Breathe
Friday, February 6, 2015, 12pm Low Library Rotunda Columbia University Kathy Boudin, The Center for Justice at Columbia Vishaan Chakrabarti, Columbia GSAPP Mario Gooden, Columbia GSAPP Kimberley Johnson, Barnard Urban Studies Laura Kurgan, Columbia GSAPP Reinhold Martin, Columbia GSAPP V. Mitch McEwen, University of Michigan Dread Scott, artist Stacey Sutton, Columbia GSAPP Kendall Thomas, Columbia Law School Mabel Wilson, Columbia GSAPP Organized in response to the failure to indict the killers of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and countless other innocent and unarmed citizens—and the massive swelling of anger, grief, and…
Find out more »Workshop: Special Education, School Pushout, & Restorative Justice
Students with disabilities comprise 12% of the NYC public school population, yet they receive 30% of suspensions city-wide. Come discuss strategies for ending the #School2Prison Pipeline in Special Ed and building the movement for #RestorativeJustice with all students. Saturday, February 7th 1:00 to 3:00 pm @ Teachers College Room TBA 525 W. 120th Street, NYC 1 | A | B | C | D to 125th St. All are welcome & Please RSVP at bit.ly/15s18nr Bring a snack to share! For more information about building community and resisting the school-to-prison pipeline, visit www.TeachersUnite.net
Find out more »Race, Rights & the Future of Democracy in America: The Paul Robeson Lecture with guest speaker Sherilynn Iffil
Thursday, February 12, 2015 – 6:00PM – 8:00PM, Jerome Greene 106 The Center for the Study of Law and Culture presents The Paul Robeson Lecture with guest speaker Sherilynn Iffil Race, Rights & the Future of Democracy in America Reception to follow The Robeson Lecture is a highlight of the programming year for the Center for the Study of Law and Culture. The lecture was established to remember the actor, singer and activist Paul Robeson, who graduated from Columbia Law…
Find out more »The Justice Working Group
The Justice Working Group is pleased to invite you to The Power of Peers: A Strengths-Based Leadership and Social Capital Development Project Susan Sturm, Columbia Law School Out But Still Doing Time: Effects of Employment Screenings on Job Applicants with Criminal Records Valerie Purdie-Vaughns & Michael J. Naft, Columbia University Psychology Department Friday, February 20th, 2015 12:00pm – 1:00pm Columbia School of Social Work Rm 1109, **Please RSVP by Wednesday, February 18th to Kimberly Spencer Suarez, [email protected]. Light lunch will…
Find out more »“BROKEN WINDOWS, BROKEN SCHOOLS: A PANEL ON EDUCATION AND JUSTICE”
Many times schools are looked at as a solution to an unequal society. This panel brings together a range of experts on the connections between schools and communities to highlight what policies and practices be undertaken to make both more just. Panelists: ZAKIYAH ANSARI – Advocacy Director, Alliance for Quality Education R. L’HEUREUX LEWIS-MCCOY – Sociology & Black Studies, City College of New York/CUNY CARLA SHEDD – Sociology & African-American Studies, Columbia University JOSÉ LUIS VILSON – NYC Public School…
Find out more »Justice Poetry: Readings and Discussion with Claudia Rankine, Dawn Lundy Martin, and Messiah
An evening of justice poetry featuring Claudia Rankine, Dawn Lundy Martin, and Messiah Ramkissoon. Poets read from their new and published works related to issues of justice and discuss the events and experiences that inspired them. Monica Miller, Associate Professor of English at Barnard College, opens the event, and a moderated discussion, led by Columbia School of the Arts professor and poet Timothy Donnelly, and questions from the audience follow the readings. Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections…
Find out more »#SpreadMassLove Wrap Party
We declared February Spread Mass LOVE month. Join us to celebrate and wrap up the month. Location and Time Columbia Law School 435 West 116 Street, Rm JG 101 7:15 – 9pm Join Piper Anderson and Marlon Peterson co-creators of SpreadMassLOVE.com for an evening of art and dialogue about the role of LOVE in the movement to end mass incarceration. Featuring: Readings by Mass Love Contributors Interview with Piper and Marlon Audience Dialogue Performances #SpreadMassLove is a dialogue, a movement,…
Find out more »“The Cooler Bandits” Film Screening and Discussion
The Center for Justice at Columbia and the Heyman Center for the Humanities present a film screening and discussion of the documentary film “The Cooler Bandits.” Over twenty years ago, four men from the North Hill neighborhood of Akron, Ohio committed a series of restaurant robberies. During the robberies the men locked the restaurant employees in the walk-in coolers, gaining them the moniker “the Cooler Bandits.” Although no one was physically injured, the group received collective prison sentences of up to…
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