Race, Domestic And Sexual Violence: From The Prison Nation To Community Resistance

Event Flyer for February 28 Symposium
February 28, 2013

Race, Domestic And Sexual Violence: From The Prison Nation To Community Resistance

02.28.2013 | 5:00 PM |  105 Boalt Hall
03.01.2013 | 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM |  110 Boalt Hall

Join us on February 28 for a featured guest lecture from Professor Beth E. Richie who will discuss her new book, Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation

Followed by a one-day symposium with scholars and activists reflecting on domestic and sexual violence in light of the prison crisis, racialized structural violence, criminalization of gender & sexuality, and community organizing.


Symposium Program:

8:30 am – Continental Breakfast & Registration

9:00 am – Opening Keynote:

Arrested Justice:  Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation

A response by Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, UCLA School of Law

10:15 am – Coalitions and Contradictions: Gender Violence and Social Movements

Moderator: Jonathan Simon, UC Berkeley
Clarissa Rojas, California State University, Long Beach
Emily Thuma, Western Washington University
Mimi Kim, UC Berkeley

12:00 pm – Lunch break (lunch not provided)

1:00 pm – Political Legacies of Criminalization of Gender Violence: Contemporary Implications

Moderator: Wilda White, UC Berkeley
Soniya Munshi, The City University of New York
Priscilla Ocen, Loyola Law School
Dean Spade, Columbia University
Jennifer Marie Chacón, UC Irvine, School of Law

3:15 pm – Insurgent Strategies? Restorative Justice, Transformative Justice, and Community Accountability

Moderator: Julia C. Oparah (formerly Julia Sudbury), Mills College
Alisa Bierria, UC Berkeley Center for Race & Gender, INCITE!
Sujatha Baliga, National Council on Crime & Delinquency
Mia Mingus, Bay Area Transformative Justice Collaborative (BATJC)


Event co-hosted by the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at Berkeley Law, and the Center for Race & Gender.