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.