Thinking Gender, Feminists Confronting the Carceral State

29th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference

Friday, February 22, 2019

UCLA Luskin Conference Center

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.

DETAILED SCHEDULE

Thursday, February 21, 2019

3:00 PM – 5:00 PMPRE-CONFERENCE SEMINAR
For selected UCLA Graduate and Undergraduate Senior students, featuring Beth Richie
Room: 2125 Rolfe

Apply to participate in the Pre-Conference Seminar with Beth Richie! Applications due JANUARY 11, 2019. Seminar and application details: https://csw.ucla.edu/tg19-seminar

Friday, February 22, 2019

ALL DAYEXHIBIT – ABOLITIONIST FEMINISM: ART AND ARCHIVE
Room: Optimist B
8:00 AM – 9:00 AMREGISTRATION
9:00 AM – 10:30 AMSESSION I

Panel 1 – Carceral Outlaw: Black Feminist Critiques of Punishment
Room: Illumination

Roundtable 1 – Carceral Geographies: Institutional Life and Dissent
Room: Optimist A

10:30 AM – 10:45 AMBREAK
10:45 AM – 12:15 PMSESSION II

Panel 2 – Carceral (Un)Gendering: Queering the Carceral State
Room: Illumination

Roundtable 2 – Settler Carcerality: Occupation, Surveillance, and State-making
Room: Optimist A

12:15 PM – 1:15 PMNETWORKING LUNCH
(for presenters and invited guests only)
1:00 PM – 2:00 PMPOSTER SESSION
Room: Optimist B
2:00 PM – 3:30 PMSESSION III

Panel 3 – Carceral and Anticarceral Culture: Representation and State Control
Room: Illumination

Roundtable 3 – Carceral Lives and Afterlives: Historiographies of Abolition and Captivity
Room: Optimist A

3:30 PM – 3:45 PMBREAK
3:45 PM – 5:30 PMKEYNOTE PANEL: ABOLITIONIST FEMINIST FUTURES
Room: Centennial Ballroom A & B

Featuring:

ALISA BIERRIA, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC Riverside; Co-founder of Survived & Punished

COLBY LENZ, PhD Candidate, American Studies and Ethnicity, USC; Co-founder of Survived & Punished

ROMARILYN RALSTON, Program Coordinator, Project Rebound, CSU-Fullerton; Organizer, California Coalition for Women Prisoners

BETH RICHIE, Department Head, Criminology, Law and Justice and Professor of African American Studies & Criminology, University of Illinois at Chicago; Author of Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence and America’s Prison Nation

MODERATOR: GRACE HONG, Chair, CSW Advisory Committee; Professor, Gender Studies and Asian American Studies

5:30 PM – 6:30 PMCONFERENCE RECEPTION
Room: Centennial Ballroom and Hallway

CO-SPONSORED BY:

  • Backed by Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
  • UCLA Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership
  • UCLA Interdisciplinary & Cross Campus Affairs (ICCA)
  • UCLA Graduate Division
  • UCLA Division of Humanities
  • Political Theology Network
  • UCLA Department of African American Studies
  • UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
  • UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • UCLA Black Male Institute
  • Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin
  • UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
  • UCLA Department of Philosophy
  • UCLA Department of Social Welfare
  • UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
  • UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies
  • UCLA Department of Asian American Studies
  • UCLA Department of Sociology
  • UCLA Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
  • UCLA Department of History
  • UCLA Department of Public Policy
  • The Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law
  • UCLA Department of Anthropology
  • UCLA LGBT Campus Resource Center
  • UCLA Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health
  • Criminal Justice Program at UCLA School of Law
  • UCLA Division of Social Sciences