Panelists will discuss their new volume Istanbul: Living with Difference in a Global City (Rutgers University Press, 2018) which asks: What does Istanbul teach us, for better or for worse, about living with the Other? The interdisciplinary group of contributors hail from politics, international studies, area studies, urban studies, sociology, anthropology, and geography. Chapters examine historical and contemporary strategies for living with diversity pursued by, among others, religious majorities/minorities, migrants, environmentalists, and the LGBTQ movement. 

https://cmes.berkeley.edu/istanbul-living-with-difference-in-a-global-city/

A book talk and Q&A with Samantha Gottlieb at Swarthmore College, Kohlberg 115

Alexandra Cox discusses Trapped in a Vice at Old Dominion University, Sociology & Criminal Justice department. DETAILS TBD.

Frances R. Botkin talk/signing at Red Emma's, 6pm
https://redemmas.org/events/1202-frances-botkin-presents--thieving-three-fingered-jack

The fugitive slave known as “Three-Fingered Jack” terrorized colonial Jamaica from 1780 until vanquished by Maroons, self-emancipated Afro-Jamaicans bound by treaty to police the island for runaways and rebels.  A thief and a killer, Jack was also a freedom fighter who sabotaged the colonial machine until his grisly death at its behest. Narratives about his exploits shed light on the problems of black rebellion and solutions administered by the colonial state, creating an occasion to consider counter-narratives about its methods of divide and conquer. For more than two centuries, writers, performers, and storytellers in England, Jamaica, and the United States have “thieved" Three Fingered Jack's riveting tale, defining black agency through and against representations of his resistance.

Malone shines a light on friendship, dating, and sexuality, in both the ideals and the practical experiences of heterosexual students at U. S. evangelical colleges. She examines the struggles they have in balancing their gendered presentations of self, the expectations of their religious campus community, and their desire to find meaningful romantic relationships. 

https://www.mainpointbooks.com/event/dana-malone-single-serious-relationships-gender-and-sexuality-american-evangelical-campuses

A Community Conversation about juvenile justice in the Adirondacks.  With the medium-security adult prison in Ray Brook slated to become a juvenile facility, a conversation with Alexandra Cox, author of Trapped in a Vice:  The Consequences of Confinement for Young People, is urgent and right on time.  It  will be held at Hotel North Woods, in The Cabin Grill, 2520 Main Street in Lake Placid.  Doors at 4pm, event at 4:30pm.

Contact John Brown Lives! for details:  info@johnbrownlives.org

Lecture sponsored by the Department of Sociology.  Location TBA.

Dahlia Schweitzer will sign and discuss GOING VIRAL at UCLA's Powell Library (main rotunda)

http://www.library.ucla.edu/powell

This event will take place at 108 Memorial Hall. DETAILS TBD.

Location: Hall of Languages 107

Angie Y. Chung is an associate professor in the department of sociology at the University at Albany. She will be visiting campus as part of her book tour for her new book, “Saving Face”. Sponsored by Asian/Asian American Studies. Contact: Andrew Stranahan at ajstrana@syr.edu.

http://multicultural.syr.edu/_documents/AAPIHM2018.pdf

This event will be held in conjunction with the Youth Sentencing and Reentry Project and the Juvenile Law Center at Uncle Bobbie's Coffee and Books in Philadelphia.  To register for the event, click here.

Join Alexandra Cox, author of Trapped in a Vice and Prof Kristin Henning for a conversation on the consequences of confinement for teenagers, getting out, and staying out.  

This event is co-sponsored by the Campaign for Youth Justice, Youth First, and the Justice Policy Institute.

Kristin Henning is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. She previously served as a staff attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia and helped to organize a Juvenile Unit designed to meet the multi-disciplinary needs of children in the juvenile justice system.Professor Henning has been active in local, regional and national juvenile justice reform. Professor Henning has also served as an expert consultant to a number of state and federal agencies, including the US Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. She has published a number of law review articles on race and the juvenile justice system, the role of child's counsel and the role of parents in delinquency cases, confidentiality in juvenile proceedings, victims' rights in juvenile court, and parental consent in the Fourth Amendment context. In 2013, Professor Henning was awarded the Robert E. Shepherd, Jr. Award for Excellence in Juvenile Defense by National Juvenile Defender Center. In 2105, she received the Henning-Mlyniec Award for Youth Justice from the DC Lawyers for Youth, was elected to American Law Institute (ALI), and was invited to serve as an Adviser to ALI's Restatement on Children and the Law project. Henning has been a visiting professor at Yale and NYU Law Schools and holds a B.A. from Duke University, a J.D. from Yale University, and an LL.M. from Georgetown University.

Alexandra Cox is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. Prior to getting her Ph.D., she worked at the American Civil LIberties Union's Drug Law Reform project, the Drug Policy Alliance's Office of Legal Affairs and then at the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, a community-based public defender office in New York City. She has continued to practice as a sentencing mitigation specialist, representing primarily young people charged as adults. She has served on the boards of theNew York State Defenders Association, Drama Club (which provides theater programming to incarcerated youth), Reentry Columbia, Literacy for Incarcerated Teens, and Advancing Real Change. She was a Gates Cambridge Scholar a Soros Justice Advocacy fellow.

The Campaign for Youth Justice is a national campaign in the United States dedicated to ending the practice of trying, sentencing, and incarcerating children under age 18 in the adult justice system. Founded in 2005, CFYJ has become a national clearinghouse on the issue of trying youth in adult court. It is also one of the leading advocates for the reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act.

Youth First Initiative is a national advocacy campaign to end the incarceration of youth by closing youth prisons and investing in community-based alternatives to incarceration and programs for youth.

The Justice Policy Institute is a national nonprofit organization that changes the conversation around justice reform and advances policies that promote well-being and justice for all people and communities. Our research and analyses identify effective programs and policies and we disseminate our findings to the media, policymakers and advocates, and provide training and technical assistance supports to people working for justice reform.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/trapped-in-a-vice-a-conversation-with-professor-kristin-henning-and-alexandra-cox-tickets-42895477528?aff=erelexpmlt

Rutgers University’s Douglass Residential College is the only college for women that is nested within a major research university in the United States. Although the number of women’s colleges has plummeted from a high of 268 in 1960 to 38 in 2016, Douglass is flourishing as it approaches its centennial in 2018. To explore its rich history, Kayo Denda, Mary Hawkesworth, Fernanda H. Perrone examine the strategic transformation of Douglass over the past century in relation to continuing debates about women’s higher education.

The Douglass Century celebrates the college’s longevity and diversity as distinctive accomplishments, and analyzes the contributions of Douglass administrators, alumnae, and students to its survival, while also investigating multiple challenges that threatened its existence.  This book demonstrates how changing historical circumstances altered the possibilities for women and the content of higher education, comparing the Jazz Age, American the Great Depression, the Second World War, the post-war Civil Rights era, and the resurgence of feminism in the 1970s and 1980s. Concluding in the present day, the authors highlight the college’s ongoing commitment to Mabel Smith Douglass’ founding vision, “to bring about an intellectual quickening, a cultural broadening in connection with specific training so that women may go out into the world fitted…for leadership…in the economic, political, and intellectual life of this nation.” In addition to providing a comprehensive history of the college, the book brings its subjects to life with eighty full-color images from the Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.  

http://rutgers.bncollege.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/BNCBHomePage?catalogId=10001&langId=-1&storeId=58552
 

Held at Center for the Study of the Southwest,Brazos Hall,Texas State University,601 University Drive,San Marcos, TX 78666

T. Jackie Cuevas discusses Post-Borderlandia. 

Bringing Chicana/o studies into conversation with queer theory and transgender studies, Post-Borderlandia examines why gender variance is such a core theme in contemporary Chicana and Chicanx narratives. It considers how Chicana butch lesbians and Chicanx trans people are not only challenging heteropatriarchal norms, but also departing from mainstream conceptions of queerness and gender identification.  

Expanding on Gloria Anzaldúa’s classic formulation of the Chicana as transformer of the “borderlands,” Jackie Cuevas explores how a new generation of Chicanx writers, performers, and filmmakers are imagining a “post-borderlands” subjectivity, where shifting national, racial, class, sexual, and gender identifications produce complex power dynamics. In addition, Cuevas offers fresh archival analysis of the Chicana feminist canon to reveal how queer gender variance has always been crucial to this literary tradition

http://www.txstate.edu/cssw/
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This lecture is sponsored by the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) Program. For more information contact: Dr. Karen A. Rizenhoff (Communication) or Dr. Heather Prescott (History), Co-Coordinators WGSS email riztenhoffk@ccsu.edu

Outbreak narratives have proliferated for the past quarter century, and now they have reached epidemic proportions. From 28 Days Later to 24 to The Walking Dead, movies, TV shows, and books are filled with zombie viruses, bioengineered plagues, and disease-ravaged bands of survivors. Even news reports indulge in thrilling scenarios about potential global pandemics like SARS and Ebola. Why have outbreak narratives infected our public discourse, and how have they affected the way Americans view the world?

In Going Viral, Dahlia Schweitzer probes outbreak narratives in film, television, and a variety of other media, putting them in conversation with rhetoric from government authorities and news organizations that have capitalized on public fears about our changing world. She identifies three distinct types of outbreak narrative, each corresponding to a specific contemporary anxiety: globalization, terrorism, and the end of civilization. Schweitzer considers how these fears, stoked by both fictional outbreak narratives and official sources, have influenced the ways Americans relate to their neighbors, perceive foreigners, and regard social institutions. 

Looking at everything from I Am Legend to The X Files to World War Z, this book examines how outbreak narratives both excite and horrify us, conjuring our nightmares while letting us indulge in fantasies about fighting infected Others. Going Viral thus raises provocative questions about the cost of public paranoia and the power brokers who profit from it.