JSA CONFERENCE /SCHEDULE
13TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE -
"Unlocking the Prisons of Our Lives"
June 9 - 11, 2011 Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA
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Program Schedule 2011
"Unlocking the Prisons of Our Lives"
Thursday, June 9th
9:15-10:30
Session 1 – Unlocking the Prison of Punishment Ideology
Justine Vianne Lee (New York University): “Panopticon: Theory and Practice”
Kayla Martensen (Northeastern Illinois University): “The Price that U.S. Minority Communities Pay: Mass Incarceration and the Ideologies that Fuel Them”
John Wozniak (Western Illinois University): “Unlocking the Legal System from Vengeance, Harm, and Punitive Justice: Toward a Compassionate Revolution of Peace, Caring, and Unitive Justice”
Ann Marie Rocheleau (Stonehill College) and Brittany Kaminski (Stonehill College):
“Going to Supermax: Unraveling the Process of Going to Prison”
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12 noon
Session 2 – Prison of Dehumanization and Exclusion
Wendy Wright (Rutgers University): “The Ultimate Other: Criminality and Humanity”
Deirdre Caputo-Levine (SUNY Stony Brook): “Keepin’ Up the Yard Face, Inmate Interpersonal Violence and the Carceral Habitus”
Mary Florence Sullivan (Bryn Mawr College) “When the Bell Tolls: Time on Death Row”
Colleen Breslin (Villanova University): “The State of the American Worker is Strong”
Iqra Jamal (Northeastern Illinois University): “Imprisoned in Our Bodies: The Futility of Seeking Perfection”
12:00 noon to 2:00 Lunch and screening of
WE ARE STILL STANDING-STORIES OF WOMEN IN BLACK
Followed by a conversation with Ellie Bernstein, Filmmaker
2:15-3:30
Session 3 – Prisons of Identity: Race, Gender and Ethnicity
Lois Presser, Regina Benedict (University of Tennessee): “Setting Themselves Free: Older Women in Prison”
Jarret S. Lovell (California State University, Fullerton): “Hidden Identities: Identity Work and Gay Rights Movement in a Climate of Political Repression”
Richard Walker (ICDC College, Indiana University of Pennsylvania): “Mass Incarceration: The Perpetuation of Chronic Unemployment and Absentee Parents in African American and Hispanic Families”
Justin Hayes-Smith (Central Michigan University): “Interrogating Whiteness in Criminology & Understanding Consequences of Mass Incarceration”
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-500
Session 4 – Unlocking the Personal Prisons
Michael J. Coyle (California State University, Chico): “Building a Research Plan for Prison Abolition in the U.S.A.”
Scott Browning (Chestnut Hill College): “Unlocking One from the Loneliness of Autism”
Leslie M Brody (Purchase College, SUNY): “Breaking Free from the Performance of Sleep”
Sharmon Monagan (Nova Southeastern University): “Breaking the Chains of Apathy: How Hyper-Material Culture Imprisons Young People in the United States”
Dennis Sullivan “Rambling Through the Fields of Justice in Search of Well-being
for All”
5:15 -5:45 Shaker Breakout
Friday, June 10th
9:15-10:30
Session 5 – Challenging Life Without Parole from Inside and Outside the Prison: Reframing the Death Penalty Abolition Movement
Ben Fleury-Steiner (Newark, Delaware): “The Humanitarian Crisis of Life in Prison”
Sara Kruzan (Central California Women's Facility State Prison, Fresno, California): “Throwing Away Our Youth: Life Without Parole for Juveniles”
Paul Kali Hickman (SCI Graterford, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania): “LWOP: Cruel and Unusual Death by Incarceration”
Sandra Jones (Rowan University): “Barriers to Taking Action Against LWOP in the Anti-Death Penalty Movement”
Amir Varick Amma CUNY, Lehman College): “Surviving a Life Sentence: Challenges from Inside and Outside the Prison”
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12 noon
Session 6 – After the Unlocking: Re-entry Realities and Challenges
Jack McCurdy (Northeastern Illinois University): “Chains of Oppression: Conditions of Prisoners and their Families”
Charles S. Lanier (Hudson Valley Community College): “Breathing life into “the Concept of Social Capital”: The Contributions of People Formerly Imprisoned”
Douglas E. Thompkins, Sr. (John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY): “The Prisoner Reentry Industry”
Michael Hallett (University of North Florida): “Prisoner Reentry as Neoliberal Punishment
12:00 noon-1:30 Activist Café/Lunch
Facilitated by Susan Krumholtz
Activist Award Recipients Lori Pompa and
2:15-3:30
Session 7 - Transformation: Unlocking our Thinking Prisons
Hal Pepinsky and Christopher Mango(Indiana University/ Bloomington): Domains of Crime and Oppression
Emily Gaarder (University of Minnesota-Duluth): “Broadening the Confines of the Discipline: An Argument for Green Criminology”
Avi Brisman (Emory University, City University of New York): “Examining Potential Tensions in Green Criminology: Green Corrections, Rights Regimes, and Individual-Level Eco-Deviancy/Environmental Delinquency”
Eshanda A. James (University of Phoenix): “The Imprisoning Nature of Contemporary Social Media”
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-5:00
Session 8 – Unlocking the “Prisons” of Curriculum and Classroom
Sheryl L. Van Horne (Arcadia University): “Capturing the Prison Experience: Freeing Students from their Preconceived Notions of House Arrest through a Hands on Approach”
Jo-Ann Della Giustina (Bridgewater State University): “Masculinity and Violence: Views of Male Prisoners”
Susan Krumholz (University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth): “Criminal Justice students making sense of Peace”
Joe Allen (Chaminade University): “Prisoners to Paradigms: Unraveling Student Attitudes Toward Social Justice & Prison”
Sara Kitchen (Chestnut Hill College): Unlocking the Criminal Justice Major Mindset: Reflections of Restorative Justice Students
5:00-6:00 Jazz Reception
6:00 Chomsky Award Dinner
Kathy Kelly, Recipient
Saturday, June 11th
9:15-10:30
Session 9 – Unlocking legal alternatives toward justice and restoration
Allen N. Fairfax (Merrimack College): “A Discussion of the Life and Work of Benedict S. Alper”
Garson Hunter (University of Regina): “Regina’s Ban on Panhandling Sweeping the Poor and Homeless off the Streets”
T.Y. Okosun (Northastern Illinois University) and Robert D. Cobb, Jr. (Nova Southeastern University): “Improving Community Policing and Response to Gang Violence:
Unlocking an Alternative Approach to Incarceration”
Douglas E. Thompkins, Sr., Maria Pryor (John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY): “Barriers to Citizenship for the Formerly Incarcerated”
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 noon
Session 10 - The Academic Institution as "Ivory Prison"
Ken Litwin (University of Michigan, Flint): “The “ivory prison’s” collateral consequences”
T.Y.Okosun (Northeastern Illinois University): “Neo-administrative strategies that stifle academic freedom; the nature of the contemporary pursuit of tenure, and the absence of departmental and/or university faculty support”
Komanduri S. Murty (Fort Valley State University) and Ashwin Vyas (Fort Valley State University): “Bullying faculty by administrators”
Hal Pepinsky (Indiana University, retired in Worthington, OH): “Academic survival from a radical retiree”.
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