Cultures of Law in Global Contexts Spring Symposium
Monday, April 28, 2014, Center for Advanced Study (912 West Illinois Street)
To jump to the keynote address, click here.8:30-9:00am Coffee/Pastries
9:00 - 9:10am Welcome/Introductions
Shao Dan (EALC)Siobhan Somerville (English), Associate Dean, Graduate CollegePanel 1, 9:15 - 10:45am: Citizenship in Global Contexts
Moderator: Chantal Nadeau (Gender and Women’s Studies)
Paper 1: Ligia Mihut, “The Game of Marriage: Economic Citizens in an Age of Globalization" (English)
Paper 2: Hee Jung Choi, “Flexible, yet National: Legal Transformation on Citizenship and Military Conscription” (Anthropology)
Respondent: Jason Mazzone (Law)
Panel 2, 11am - 12:30pm: Law and Idea of the Nation
Moderator: Dana Rabin (History)
Paper 1: Katherine Flowers, “Shifting Scale in U.S. Language Policy” (English)
Paper 2: Mark Frank, “The Highest High Court in China: Materiality in the Making of a Modern Provincial Justice System” (EALC)
Respondent: Dennis E. Baron (English)
Panel 3, 1:30 - 3pm: Legal Rights and the Meaning of Race
Moderator: Eugene M. Avrutin (History)
Paper 1: Sally Heinzel, “We Can Legislate on Them as We Please’: Black Exclusion in Antebellum Illinois” (History)
Paper 2:Heather Freund, “With Every Degree of Humanity’: Debating the Rights of Caribs and Britons” (History)
Respondent: Robert Morrissey (History)
4:00pm Keynote Address: "Abolition Geography: Challenges and Opportunities for the Popular Front Against the Prison-Industrial Complex"
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Professor of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences; Director, Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, Graduate Center, City University of New York.
4:00pm, Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium. Introduction: Feisal Mohamed (English)
Abstract:
In 1998, the Critical Resistance conference popularized the phrase "prison industrial complex and, in conjunction with a broad range of groups throughout the USA and abroad, helped bring renewed and expanded focus on the fact of "mass incarceration." Now more than 15 years later, it is wise to refresh our thinking. What might be the most adequate general term or terms that gather together for scrutiny and action the disparate yet connected range of categories, relationships, and processes as those concentrated by the carceral? What's at stake is how people pursue both political strategies and alliances, how they organize, promote ideas, and pursue to completion the unfinished work of freedomThis symposium is made possible by the Graduate College and the Center for Advanced Studies.
Cultures of Law in Global Contexts is an initiative funded by an INTERSECT Grant from the Graduate College at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.