Justice Studies Association- Conference Schedule

JSA CONFERENCE /SCHEDULE

ELEVENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE

2010 JSA PROGRAM SCHEDULE
June 2-5, 2010: Knoxville, TN
Reducing Social Harms:
Seeking 'Just Living' in Our Communities and Our Selves
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Wed June 2
3-5pm Registration (Baker Center)
8-10pm Hospitality Suite Open

Thu June 3
7:00-9:00am Breakfast
8am-4pm Registration
8:30am Welcome by Program Chairs/Introduction by JSA President

9:15-10:30 Session 1- Blame, Harm, and Responsibility
(Facilitator: John F. Wozniak, Western Illinois University)

Judith W. Kay (University of Puget Sound): “Would’a Could’a, Should’a—Giving Up Blame in a Blaming World”
T.Y. Okosun (Northeastern Illinois University): “When Too Much is Not Enough: Abundance and the Rage to Harm”
Mary Florence Sullivan (Bryn Mawr College): “Just Living in Tacna, Peru”
William V. Taylor, Lois Presser (University of Tennessee-Knoxville): “Why We Harm: An Auto-Ethnography of Hunting”

10:30am Break

10:45-12:00 Session 2- Deviance, Stigma, and Stereotypes
(Facilitator: Judith W. Kay, University of Puget Sound)

Damian Bramlett (San Jose State University): “On Atheism, Power, and Deviance in American Society”
Keith D. Parker (University of Georgia), Komanduri S. Murty (Fort Valley State University), Ernest Brothers (University of Tennessee-Knoxville): “Just Living: Race Differences in Adolescent Drug Use”
Ashwin G. Vyas, Komanduri S. Murty (Fort Valley State University): “The Concept of Drug Use in a Just Society”

12:00pm Lunch

1:15-2:30 Keynote Address, Lyle Wildes:
"Why Prisons Don’t Work and How They Can"
Lyle Wildes likes to say he spent 20 years growing up, 20 years messing up, 20 years locked up and now he’s free to help others wake up. While serving time in federal prison for drug charges, Lyle was asked to be co-facilitator for a Positive Attitude Development course that another inmate had developed. Wildes went on to teach that class to over 2,500 inmates, and now teaches seminars throughout the Midwest to social organizations, churches, high schools, and other venues. Lyle works with restorative justice and re-entry programs for Men as Peacemakers and CORE (Community Offender Re-entry Program), and co-facilitates groups for batterers at the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project in Duluth, MN. He is the author (with Joe Kelly) of The Positive Attitude Development Workbook. His website is www.pda.org.

2:30pm Break

2:45-4:00 Session 3- Student Life as “Just Living”
(Facilitator: Kenneth Litwin, University of Michigan-Flint)

Criminal Justice Club (University of Michigan-Flint): “Taking it to the Streets: Student Involvement in Local Communities”
Roger Guy (University of North Carolina-Pembroke): “Against the Grain: Reflections from Students on Restorative Justice Courses”
Students for Social Justice (University of Tennessee-Knoxville): “Creating a Journal for ‘Social Justice’”
Sociology Graduate Student Association (University of Tennessee-Knoxville): “Beginning at Home: Actualizing Social Justice in Group Dynamics”

4:00-4:30 Shaker Breakout (Thoughts on the Day: Facilitated by Emily Gaarder)

5:00-6:00 Yoga (all levels welcome; wear comfortable clothing)
6:00pm Dinner (on your own: see Knoxville Area Guide)
8:30pm The Great Great Pines: Folk/Americana music
10:00pm Hospitality Suite Open

Fri June 4
7:00-7:55am Yoga
7:00-9:00am Breakfast
8am-4pm Registration
8:00am JSA Board Meeting

9:15-10:30 Session 4- Justice Beyond Borders: Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Identity
(Facilitator: Harry Dahms, University of Tennessee- Knoxville)

Ottis Murray (University of North Carolina at Pembroke): “Social Justice, Identity and Racial Politics: The Ongoing Struggle to be Indian”
Asafa Jalata (University of Tennessee-Knoxville): “Creating Knowledge and Promoting Justice for the Oromo in Exile”
Mark Correia, William Armaline, Amy Wyld-Tracy, Damian Bramlett (San Jose State University): “Perceptions of (Police) State Authority Across Race, Class, and Immigration Status in The East Bay”
Kent Bausman, Peter J. Green, Geriann Brandt, Jessica Shreve (Maryville University): “Suppressing Prejudice? Re-examining the Race/Gender Dynamic and its Influence on Proper Sentencing of Perceiving Offenders”

10:30am Break

10:45-12:00 Session 5- Extreme Abuse
(Facilitator: Hal Pepinsky, retired professor)

Kathleen A. Sullivan, LMSW, is a survivor-advocate and founder of the North American Freedom Foundation (http://naffoundation.org). The author of two books, Unshackled (2003) and Unmasking Monsters (2010), Kathleen is an Expressive Arts psychotherapist. Her recovery website for adult survivors of grief, trauma, and human evil is at: http://healingjourney.us.com.
deJoly LaBrier is a survivor of extreme abuse and author of two books, Diary of a Survivor in Art and Poetry (1997) and All Together Now: A Multiple's Story of Hope & Healing (2009). She is a strong advocate for children and community involvement. Her website is: http://insidedejoly.com.

12:00pm Lunch

1:15-2:45 Session 6- Just Living: Reflections on Teaching, Activism, and Everyday Life
(Facilitator: Emily Gaarder, University of Minnesota-Duluth)

Alana Van Gundy (Miami University): “The Hero Behind the Badge: Reflections on the Life of a Police Wife”
Sara Ellen Kitchen (Chestnut Hill College): “Restoring the Student and the Professor: Modeling Restorative Justice”
Leslie M. Brody (Purchase College, SUNY): “To Help or Not to Help? How Observers Respond to Social Injustice”
Patricia Campion (St. Leo University): “Walk a Mile in Someone Else’s Shoes: Teaching Diversity and Social Justice in Introduction to Sociology”
Peter Sanzen, Kathryn Sullivan, Adrianne Rickson (Hudson Valley Community College): “Restoring Community to a Community in Transition”

2:45pm Break

3:00-4:15 Session 7- The Ins and Outs of Inside Out

The Inside Out Prison Exchange program is a national model where college students and those who are incarcerated come together to take a college course. This panel will provide a nuts and bolts introduction to this pedagogical model, including how to begin the process of teaching such a class in a prison or jail, as well as the rewards such an experience offers to teachers and students alike. The experiences of inside students and outside students will also be discussed.
Jo-Ann Della Giustina (Bridgewater State College)
Susan Krumholz (University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth)
Amanda Donovan & Sara Ostrander (Students from the Inside Out Program)

4:15pm Break

4:30pm Sin By Silence: Film Screening
5:30pm Norm Chomsky Award Lecture: Brenda Clubine served 26 years in prison for defending herself against her abusive husband. While in prison, she formed a group (Convicted Women Against Abuse) in the California Institution for Women. This inmate-led support group mobilized popular support through letter writing campaigns, media coverage, and Senate hearings, leading a nationwide effort to change laws for battered women. She is currently on a speaking tour to promote the documentary film about Convicted Women Against Abuse, titled Sin By Silence. Brenda continues her advocacy in a variety of ways: working with survivors, speaking out against domestic violence, and educating the public about how to become involved. Brenda's website is: www.brendaclubine.com.

6:30pm Noam Chomsky Award Dinner

8:30pm JSA Talent Show (Share a song, poem, story, joke, juggling act, magic trick, dance move or other talent!)

10:00pm Hospitality Suite Open

Sat June 5
7:00-7:55am Yoga
7:00-9:00am Breakfast
8:00-8:50am JSA Members Meeting (and preliminary planning for 2011 conference)
8-11:00am Registration

9:00-10:15 Activist Café (featuring local activist groups)

10:15-11:00 Social Activist Award (Honoree: Suzanne Pharr)
Suzanne Pharr founded the Women’s Project in Arkansas in 1981, was a co-founder of Southerners on New Ground in 1984, and was the director of the Highlander Center 1999-2004. She is an organizer and political strategist who has spent her adult life working to build a broad-based social and economic justice movement. Suzanne is the author of Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism, and In the Time of the Right: Reflections on Liberation. Suzanne describes herself as a “political handywoman”, working across issues with activists of diverse races, genders, sexual identities, classes, ages, abilities, and cultures to develop strategies for justice and equality. Her website is: www.suzannepharr.org

11:00am Break

11:15-12:30 Session 8- Family, Community, and Justice
(Facilitator: T.Y. Okosun, Northeastern Illinois University)
Beth Easterling (University of Tennessee-Knoxville): “Restorative Justice: Spillover of Social Justice for Families of Offenders”
Sandra J. Jones (Rowan University): “Reducing the Social Harms of the Death Penalty: Integrating Activism with Research”
Joe Allen (Chaminade University): “On Bad Terms: Probationers, Communities, & Felony Supervision”
Emily Gaarder, Denise Hesselton (University of Minnesota-Duluth): “Restorative Justice ‘In a Different Voice’: Family & Community Circles for Young Female Offenders”

12:30pm Lunch

1:45-3:00 Session 9- Civility, Peacemaking, & Conflict Transformation
(Facilitator: Dan Okada, Sacramento State University)

Casey Welch (Flagler College): “The Devolution and Evolution of Justice-seeking Rituals: Analytical Conflict Transformation and Structured Informal Controls”
T.Y.Okosun (Northeastern Illinois University):”Before Critical Disaster Strikes: Hyper Transformative Negotiation in View of Social Transformation”
Heather Kelley, Catherine A. Jenks, John Randolph Fuller (University of West Georgia): “Working in the Prison: Enhancing Civility to Reduce Social Harm”
John F. Wozniak (Western Illinois University): “Prisons as a Peaceful Community: Confronting Suffering in the Society of Captives”

3:00pm Break

3:15pm Shaker Breakout Farewell (Facilitated by Carmel Price)

4:00pm Planning/Discussion of 2011 Conference (all welcome!)

JSA Conference 2005

2010 Twelfth
ANNUAL
JSA CONFERENCE

Reducing
Social Harms: Seeking 'Just Living' in Our Communities and Our Selves

June 2 - 5 , 2010
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee

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