April 13-14, 2007
Conference: RESISTING THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Binghamton University Campus
Mountain View Appalachian Building
Speakers: Dylan Rodriguez, David Brotherton
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April 17: Charles Venator Santiago, Ithaca College, Public lecture: “United States Territorial Imperialism and the Use of the State of Exception”
Binghamon University, Fernand Braudel Center, 330A Academic A Building, 3-5pm.
Friday, March 2, 2007 @ 2:00 pm
Southern Tier Social Justice Project Public Discussion
“The ABC´s of Re-Entry After Incarceration”
Broome County Public Library
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Saturday May 6, 2006: Community Forum: Racism in the Judicial System. MacArthur Elementary School Cafeteria, 1123 Vestal Avenue, Binghamton NY [map]. Sponsored by Binghamton Justice Project, Broome County YMCA, School of Education and Human Development, Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies, Harpur College Dean's Office. Contact: Professor Gladys Jim+-nez gjimenez@binghamton.edu, phone: 607 777-2798/4864/4868. Download Announcement Flyer (pdf); Download Program (pdf) ; Download Info Pamphlet
May 5, Noon: Carlos Aguirre, University of Oregon: "Authoritarian Democracy: State and Political Prisoners in Twentieth-Century Peru," public lecture sponsored by the Harpur College Dean's Workshop on Prisons and Social Transformation. Fernand Braudel Center, Academic A 330. Cosponsor Fernand Braudel Center.
May 4, 4:30-6pm: Sasha Abramsky, speaking on his book Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George W. Bush to The White House, Fernand Braudel Center, Academic A 330 (Binghamton University).
March 27, Tuesday Noon talk: Dylan Rodriguez, author of Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the Formation of the U.S. Prison Regime (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2006), speaking on From Pelican Bay to Abu Ghraib: the +G+global+G- American prison and the +G+local+G- common sense of punishment and social death," sponsored by the Harpur College Dean's Workshop on Prisons and Social Transformations.
March 1st, 4:30 pm Kelvin Santiago, Binghamton University, " 'Bloody Legislations' and the Work of Race Making in the Spanish Atlantic: Differentiated Spaces of General(ized) Confinement in Spain and Puerto Rico, 1750-1840," Fernand Braudel Center, AA330. The paper to be discussed is attached here: Download file
February 24, Noon: John Eason, University of Chicago: ""Development by Arrest:? Building a Theoretical Framework for Prison Growth in Rural America," Fernand Braudel Center, AA330.
February 10th, Noon: Peter Linebaugh, public lecture: "Magna Carta: Commoning, Constitution, and Crime." in the Fernand Braudel Center, AA330. Organized by the Dean's Workshop on Prisons and Social Transformations, Harpur College, Binghamton University; co-sponsors Africana Department, Fernand Braudel Center, History Department, Sociology Department.
Dec 2, 2005, Noon: Max Kenner, Director, and Daniel Karpowitz, Director of Policy and Academics, Bard Prison Initiative: "The Bard Prison Initiative: Lessons From 5 Years of College within a Maximum Security Prison," Fernand Braudel Center, Academic A 330.
Nov. 17, 6pm, West Lounge (Old Union, Binghamton University): Rosa Clemente, co-host of WBAI's "Where We Live" and a Malcolm X Grassroots Movement activist, speaking on "Community Organizing Against the Prison Industrial Complex and Police State." Sponsored by the OCCM, Binghamton Justice Project, Latin American Student Union, Black Student Union, Thurgood Marhsall Pre-Law Society, Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity, Malik Fraternity, and Harpur College Dean's Workshop on Prisons and Social Transformation.
11/16/05, Sinan Gulhan, 4:30 pm, "The 1872 International Prison Congress and the Prison Reform Movement," Fernand Braudel Center, Academic A 330.
11/9/05, Zeynep Gonen, "Penalty and Social Control in the late Ottoman Empire," 4:30 pm, Fernand Braudel Center, Academic A 330
October 26, 2005: , Mecke Nagel, +G+African Women and Criminal In/Justice,+G- 5 pm, Fernand Braudel Center, Academic A 330