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October 2014
Race in the Age of Digital Media: A Lecture by Ta-Nehisi Coates
“It’s very difficult to know that it doesn’t matter what morals you instill in your children,” she said. “That there are certain people who will never see the value and know who they are.” And yet African Americans raised in such circumstances understand that in so many ways they are not that far removed from the block. Many of them are just a generation away, and they still have cousins, brothers, and uncles struggling. Their country cannot see this complexity,…
Find out more »GENDER & JUSTICE: SARAH HALEY ON “PUNISHING THE BLACK FEMALE BODY: GENDER AND IMPRISONMENT IN THE JIM CROW SOUTH”
The Columbia Institute of Women, Gender and Sexuality present Gender & Justice, a series of events that focus on the idea of justice relating to men, women and current legal issues. Presented with the Columbia University Law School. We are excited to welcome Sarah Haley, Assitant Professor of Gender Studies at UCLA, to present her talk “Punishing The Black Female Body: Gender and Imprisonment in the Jim Crow South” on October 16, 2014 at 4pm in 754 Schermerhorn Extension.
Find out more »Post-Racial Mythologies, Post Ferguson Realities
Post-Racial Mythologies, Post Ferguson Realities Event Date: Thursday, October 16, 2014 – 6:00pm – 8:00pm Location: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture – 515 Malcolm X Boulevard New York, NY 10037-1801 (917) 275-6975 Unfortunately, the August 9, 2014, the police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, was not an isolated incident. Nor will the issues it raises be resolved anytime soon, if the problems of policing and police practices continue as they are today. Join faculty, students, and affiliates of the…
Find out more »Dan Hoyle’s “Each and Every Thing”
“Each and Every Thing” is the newest solo show from award-winning actor/playwright Dan Hoyle about how we experience the world in the digital age. From a showdown with a violent person in small-town Nebraska, to a childhood listening to anti-conformist rants in San Francisco; from the hard-scrabble corner boys of Chicago to the intellectual temple of Calcutta’s famed coffeehouse; from a Digital Detox retreat in remote Northern California to an intimate confession in Manhattan, join Dan in his search for…
Find out more »Education is Transformation!
Education is Transformation! Listening to the Voices of Justice-Involved Students Changing lives, developing leaders, building communities Half-Day Symposium Where: Columbia Law School, Case Lounge, 435 W. 116th Street, New York, NY 10027 Date: Friday, October 17, 2014 Time: 12pm-4pm RSVP HERE Education is one of the most powerful ways that justice-involved youth and adults can shift the script and take back our lives. In an era of mass incarceration, lack of educational access is a key factor in our nation’s…
Find out more »Judging Science: The Historian, the Courts, & Discerning Responsibility for Environmental Pollution
Over the past twenty years a vast public negotiation has taken place over the causes of, and responsibility for, disease. For the most part this discussion has flown under the radar of doctors, historians and public health professionals. To the extent they have participated, professionals and scholars have been called in as “experts,” as witnesses, to be either listened to, or rejected, by juries and judges. This talk will look at a number of cases over the course of the…
Find out more »What I Want My Words to Do You Screening and Discussion
What I Want My Words to Do You A part of the What is Justice? Film Series Join us for a screening of What I Want My Words To Do You, a film that brings us into the minds and hearts of the women incarcerated in New York’s Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Eve Ensler, Donna Hilton and Keila Pulinario. A project from the Center for Justice at Columbia University and the…
Find out more »Is Health a Human Right? The European Perspective
Is Health a Human Right? The European Perspective In this talk, Panayotis Yatagantzidis will present tentative definitions of the concept of human rights as delineated in different schools of thought and will define a constitutional cartography of the right to health in nations-members of the European Union. From within that perspective, he will examine the international protection provided by the Treaty of the EU and the European Declaration of Human Rights and will analyze the existing international legal discourse. Yatagantzidis will locate…
Find out more »Raise The Age
New York is one of just two states in the country that automatically treats 16- and 17-year olds as adults in the criminal justice system. In recent years, advocates and legislators — including the state’s chief judge — have pushed to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 18. Now, in the midst of a national scandal over the treatment of adolescents at the Rikers Island Jail, we convene the experts for a discussion of the movement to Raise the…
Find out more »November 2014
In Plain Sight- Towards Engendering the Fight for Racial Justice in the 21st Century
Please join the African American Policy Forum and the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies for IN PLAIN SIGHT Towards Engendering the Fight for Racial Justice in the 21st Century WHY ARE WOMEN OF COLOR: KILLED BY STATE VIOLENCE, but their names, faces and stories unknown? EXPERIENCING PRIVATE VIOLENCE, but silenced by community politics? OVER-REPRESENTED IN THE PRISON SYSTEM, but considered outside the fight against the New Jim Crow? MORE DEEPLY IMPACTED BY THE RECESSION, but not represented in…
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