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Washington, DC 20016-8038
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Conference Program
Friday, April 4
- 6:30 a.m.
- Breakfast at Embassy Suites for hotel guests begins
- 7:45 8:45 a.m.
- Shuttle service to campus for Embassy Suites hotel guests on loop
Following Sessions at Mary Graydon Center, 51勛圖窪蹋
- 8:30 9:00 a.m.
- Coffee bar with light breakfast and Check-in
- 9:00 9:30 a.m.
- Opening Remarks
- 9:45 11:30 a.m.
- Plenary Panel I : Abolitionist Frameworks
Orisanmi Burton (American U)
Priya Kandaswamy (San Diego State U)
Silky Shah (Detention Watch Network)
Ol繳f廕嘐mi T獺穩w簷 (Georgetown U) - 11:45 a.m. 12:30 p.m.
- Lunch (provided)
Book exhibit with vendor BOL, DCs first worker-owned bookstore. - 12:45 2:30 p.m.
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Concurrent Sessions:
Move to McKinley Building, 2nd Floor
- 2:30 2:45 p.m.
- Coffee/Tea Bar
- 2:45 4:45 p.m.
- Film Screening and Post-Film Talk:
Ghosts of Adelanto & the Rise of Abolish ICE
Producers Setsu Shigematsu (in-person) and Cinthya Martinez (virtual)
(conference participants and speakers are automatically registered) - 5:00 6:00 p.m.
- Pre-Keynote Reception
- 6:00 8:00 p.m.
- Keynote Address: Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore
(conference participants and speakers are automatically registered) - 8:15 9:15 p.m.
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Shuttle service from campus to Embassy Suites for hotel guests on loop
Saturday, April 5
- 6:30 a.m.
- Breakfast at Embassy Suites for hotel guests begins
- 8:15 9:15 a.m.
- Shuttle service to campus for Embassy Suites hotel guests on loop
All Sessions at Mary Graydon Center, 51勛圖窪蹋
- 9:00 9:30 a.m.
- Breakfast and Check-in (Mary Graydon Center at AU)
- 9:30 - 9:45
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Day Two Opening/Updates
- 9:45 11:30 a.m.
- Plenary Panel II: Abolitionist Praxis
Tanay Harris (Bloom Collective)
Laura McTighe (Women With A Vision)
Jasmine R. Jackson (National Black Food & Justice Alliance)
Connie Wun (AAPI Women Lead)
Chair: Jane Palmer (American U) - 11:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m.
- Lunch (provided)
With lunchtime exhibition of Shattering Justice & Re-Making the Muslim Threat, a physical and digital exhibition, developed by Muslim Counterpublics Lab, that meticulously documents key events, policies, and laws implemented in the United States following the 9/11 attacks and the launch of the War on Terror. View digital version - 12:45 - 2:30 p.m.
- Concurrent Sessions:
- 2:30 p.m.
- Coffee / Tea Bar
- 3:00 4:30 p.m.
- Plenary III: Abolitionist FuturesA Moderated Conversation
Sarah Haley (Scholars for Social Justice, Columbia U)
Dylan Rodriguez (UC Riverside)
Naomi Paik (U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) - Moderator: Sara Clarke Kaplan (American U)
- 4:30 5:15 p.m.
- Abolition in a Time of Crisis: Open Dialogue
In this current political moment, gatherings like these can be opportunities for much-needed coalitional organizing. In that spirit: how do the radical histories, organizing traditions, analytical tools, and future vision(s) of abolition inform and equip us for the work to be done right now?
Facilitator: Sara Clarke Kaplan - 5:15 5:30 p.m.
- Closing Remarks
- 5:45 6:45 p.m.
- Shuttle service from campus to Embassy Suites for hotel guests on loop
Concurrent Sessions I
Challenging Carceral Logics of Gender & Sexuality
Chair/Discussant: Sara Clarke Kaplan (American U)
Presenters:
- Jane Palmer (American U), "The Political is Personal: Antidotes to the Carceral Logics of Everyday Life"
- Austin Lukondi (New York U), "'Free Them All' Means Everyone: Towards Abolishing Registries of Sexual Violence"
- Maya Pendleton (upEND) and Alan Detlaff (U of Houston), Reproductive Justice, Family Policing, and Abolition
Grounded Struggles I: Confronting Carceral Geographies
Chair/Discussant: Malini Ranganathan (American U)
Presenters:
- David C. Turner III, Mariah Tso & Joana Chavez (UC Los Angeles) Archiving, Mapping, and Documenting the Fiscal and Human Cost of Incarceration with the Million Dollar Hoods Project
- Kavya Padmanabhan (Rice U) "Globalizing Penal Abolition in Western Contexts: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and England and Wales"
- Maha Hilal (Muslim Counterpublic Lab; American U) "Incarcerated Muslims in War on Terror: Towards an Inclusive Abolitionist Politic"
- Manissa Maharawal (American U) "The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project: Counter Mapping for Housing Justice"
Abolition & The State
Chair/Discussant: Kirstie Dorr (American U)
Presenters:
- Jarrett Martin Drake (U at Buffalo) Towards an Abolitionist Approach for Studying the State
- Lydia Pelot-Hobbs (U of Kentucky) Abolition and the Question of the State
- Josh Lown & Mutual Aid Eastie/Apoyo Mutuo (Northeastern U; Mutual Aid Eastie/Apoyo Mutuo) "Addressing the challenges of embodying abolition-oriented praxis in mutual aid organizations: The case of Mutual Aid Eastie/Apoyo Mutuo
- Netfa Freeman (Black Alliance for Peace DC)
Concurrent Sessions II
The Biopolitics of Incarceration
Chair/Discussant: Tracy Weitz (American U)
Presenters:
- Gabrielle Corona (Princeton U) Plasma, Public Health, and Prisoners in Late Twentieth Century Louisiana"
- Carolyn Sufrin (John Hopkins U) Punished with Pregnancy: Biopolitics of Abortion Foreclosure in Carceral Institutions
- Mali Collins (American U) The Carceral Hospital: Debt, Birth, and Imagining a New World of Health
- Sara Clarke Kaplan (American U)
Grounded Struggles II: Freedom is a Place
Chair/Discussant: Kenjus Watson (American U)
Presenters:
- Bethany Murray, Pharren Miller, Shantell Missouri (UC Los Angeles) "(Abolitionist) Care, Not Cops: Redefining Safety in Schools through Community-Led Campaigns
- Garrett Graddy-Lovelace (American U) "Towards Abolitionist Agrarian Geographies: of Kentucky, of Palestine"
- John West (U of Illinois, Chicago) Are we still doing this schooling thing?: Abolitionist Pedagogies and Black Educational Fugitive Space
Unraveling the Global Politics of Policing
Chair/Discussant: Orisanmi Burton (American U)
Presenters:
- Brendan Hornbostel (George Washington U) Policing Is Capital in Washington, D.C.: An Abolitionist Counter-History of the Metropolitan Police Department
- Zoltan Gluck (American U) & Wangui Kimari (American U Nairobi) Postcolonial Abolition: The Failure of Police Reform and the Case for Abolition in Kenya (and Beyond)
- Oliver Robinson (Pan-African Community Action)
- Frank Godinez (UC Los Angeles) "Police, Nonprofits and the Carceral Web: A Study of Police Nonprofits in Los Angeles City"
- Christina Cano (Yale U) "From Weelaunee to Falasteen: The Role of the Nonprofit Police Foundation in Carceral Expansion