Events
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The Photo-Diasporas project seeks to broaden our understanding of forced cross-border migration due to the Colombian armed conflict, the longest in the Americas. It does so through the eyes and voices of 15 Colombian men and women who were forced to leave the country and start a new life in the United States, one of the largest receiving countries for Colombian migrants. The project is based on the use of photo-voice, an action-research method that uses photographic and narrative composition as a form of community research and expression. For more information, click here. |
The UMass Amherst Feinberg Family
Distinguished Lecture Series: Confronting Empire
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Fall 2022
Keynote: U.S. Policy in the Global South Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Vincent Bevins, and Amy Goodman (moderator) September 19, 7pm, Zoom The Imperialist Roots of the U.S.A. Manu Karuka October 3, 6pm, UMass Amherst Student Union Ballroom and Zoom U.S. Empire in Asia and the Pacific: Repression and Resistance Nerissa S. Balce, Brian Hioe, Moon-Ho Jung, and Sigrid Schmalzer (moderator) November 1, 7pm, Zoom The Human Toll of America’s Air Wars Inaugural Ellsberg Lecture by Azmat Khan November 15, 7pm, UMass Amherst Student Union Ballroom and Zoom Vietnam Era Antiwar Movement: Successes, Failures, and Legacies W.D. Ehrhart, Carolyn Eisenberg, Daniel Ellsberg, Ngo Vinh Long, and Judith Ehrlich (moderator) December 1, 7pm, Zoom Teaching Empire Brian Brown and Alison Russell Ongoing, UMass Amherst Herter Hall |
Spring 2023
None of Us Is Free Unless All Are Free: Anti-Imperialism and the Black Radical Tradition 2023 James Baldwin Lecture by Bill Fletcher Jr. February 23, 6pm, UMass Amherst Bowker Auditorium and Zoom Feminists Against Empire: Resistance to U.S. Sanctions and Embargoes Liz Oliva Fernández, Alejandra Laprea, and Diana Sierra Becerra (moderator) March 7, 7pm, Zoom Resisting Imperial Memory: Confronting the History of U.S. Aggression in Iraq Dave Inder Comar, Kali Rubaii, Nazli Tarzi, and Ross Caputi (moderator) March 23, 4pm, Zoom The Poetry of War and Resistance Carolyn Forché, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dunya Mikhail, Ocean Vuong, and Ru Freeman (moderator) April 3, 7pm, Zoom |
Past Events |
The Time Is (Never) Right for Reparations
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Tasseli McKay
Bernie Dallas Room, UMass Amherst - September 30, 2022 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. America’s long history of unreconstructed racial atrocity demands a peculiar relationship to time. For more than three centuries, debates over reparations to Black Americans have raged in courts and legislatures and across the social sciences, humanities, and the law. Nowhere are the oddities of American time on richer display than in the temporal vitiation of reparations proposals, framed as either far ahead of their time or far too late to be relevant.
The time for reparations, it seems, will never be right. But what if the time is now? |
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Conference on New Directions in Law and Society
The Center for Justice, Law, and Societies, with support from the Law and Science Program of the National Science Foundation and the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, is delighted to host the 2022 Conference on New Directions in Law and Society (October 7-8, 2022), to take place at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the beautiful Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts. We have designed this conference to bring together faculty and graduate students from the diverse community of law and society scholars. We hope to provide a collaborative setting in which to deepen law and society as a field, introduce scholars to the field, and foster ongoing dialogue for future events.
We invite graduate student applicants with a project to workshop (Oct. 7), and paper panel (Oct. 8) applicants who will have a full draft to share by the time of the meeting. We hope that the time for each project or paper will be fruitful for developing towards publication. Graduate students will workshop projects with more senior faculty on the morning of Oct. 7, with professionalization panels on funding and publishing in the afternoon. Paper panels on Oct. 8 will be designed to encourage topical synergies across methodologies, with discussants and panelists sharing insights to help develop the work. On both days, all participants are welcome to join plenary sessions with distinguished law and society scholars from the region.
This event is generously supported by the National Science Foundation.
We invite graduate student applicants with a project to workshop (Oct. 7), and paper panel (Oct. 8) applicants who will have a full draft to share by the time of the meeting. We hope that the time for each project or paper will be fruitful for developing towards publication. Graduate students will workshop projects with more senior faculty on the morning of Oct. 7, with professionalization panels on funding and publishing in the afternoon. Paper panels on Oct. 8 will be designed to encourage topical synergies across methodologies, with discussants and panelists sharing insights to help develop the work. On both days, all participants are welcome to join plenary sessions with distinguished law and society scholars from the region.
This event is generously supported by the National Science Foundation.
Reproductive Justice And the Supreme Court
The End of Roe?: From the Past of Reproductive Rights to the Future of Reproductive Justice
May 17, 2022, 4-5:30pm
Our panelists will engage in a lively conversation around the history, present and future of Roe v. Wade, including the politicization of the Supreme Court, 14th amendment legal issues, impacts on immigrant and BIPOC communities, local activism, and the future of medical abortion amid increasing state restrictions.
Recording Link: https://youtu.be/MhIndLDPcjQ
With Carrie N. Baker, Paul M. Collins, Jr. Marisa Pizii, Tannuja Rozario, Jamie Rowen
May 17, 2022, 4-5:30pm
Our panelists will engage in a lively conversation around the history, present and future of Roe v. Wade, including the politicization of the Supreme Court, 14th amendment legal issues, impacts on immigrant and BIPOC communities, local activism, and the future of medical abortion amid increasing state restrictions.
Recording Link: https://youtu.be/MhIndLDPcjQ
With Carrie N. Baker, Paul M. Collins, Jr. Marisa Pizii, Tannuja Rozario, Jamie Rowen
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On December 8, 2021, a distinguished group of panelists discussed the oral arguments to determine the fate of Roe v. Wade. Speakers focused on the history of the case, its meaning for reproductive justice, and potential social and political challenges as the Supreme Court loses legitimacy.
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On September 14th, 2021, a group of featured speakers discussed the recent developments in Texas abortion law. Each speaker has unique experience in reproductive rights such as the gendered nature of birth control, abortion politics, reproductive justice, and the decriminalization of abortion.
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PRison Education Initiative
Transitional Justice in the USA Speaker Series
Does Criminal PUNISHMENT OF POLICE CONTRIBUTE OR DISTRACT FROM SOCIETAL RECKONINGS OF RACISM?
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In recognition of Native American Heritage Month, the first panel in Part II of our Transitional Justice in the USA Speakers Series took place Wednesday, November 3, 2021, from 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST online via Zoom.
To view the event, click here. |
This panel focused on past and recent truth initiatives on the forced assimilation of Native children through boarding schools and the child welfare system. Indigenous leaders reflected on the experience of the Maine Wabanaki-Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Federal bill to create a national truth commission, and the official investigations launched by the Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland this past summer, upon the revelation of mass graves located at boarding schools. The panel explored how to open the way to transformative justice, overcoming standardized or colonized transitional justice models. The panel convened in recognition of Native American Heritage Month.
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FOR THE FULL LIST OF CO-SPONSORS, AND TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SPEAKERS, VISIT THEIR WEBPAGE.
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Transitional Justice in the USA
Comparative Lessons: What is Transitional Justice and How Has it Worked in Other Countries February 24, 2021 PANEL 2 - HOW DO WE BUILD COLLABORATIVE MODELS FOR A TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE PROCESS?
This panel explores how human rights and academic institutions, and their affiliates, can best support an existing grassroots network of racial justice advocates working on themes related to Transitional Justice in the United States in ways that do not replicate the same predominant power structures these movements seek to dismantle. |
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Covid-19
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Conspiracy Theories
and the COVID-19 Pandemic, June 3, 2020 |
COVID-19: Social Scientists' Views
On The Pandemic's Impact And What Comes Next, June 3, 2020 |
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Capitol Violence
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Capitol Violence, Impeachment, and Our Political Future
Featuring Paul Collins, Youngmin Yi, Brian Sargent, Alasdair Roberts, and Dean Robinson February 11, 2021 |
Capit0l Siege: Making Sense of What Happened,
Jan. 14, 2021 |
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At The Frontlines: Emerging Voices on the Practice and Politics of Criminal Justice Reform,
July 15, 2020 |
The Legacy Of RBG And
The Future Of Feminist Jurisprudence, October 5, 2020 |
