Date: 04/02/2007

The Justice Studies Department will host a one-day conference on Friday, April 6, at the University Room about the past, present and future of punishment in California. A morning panel will bring together scholars working in history and art history to discuss race, citizenship and punishment in California from 1848 to 1950. In the afternoon, panelists will discuss the political economies of punishment in California in the twentieth century. To conclude, scholars and activists will discuss strategies for organizing the present in penal California. Well-known scholars who will be presenting include Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Ken Gonzales Day, Christopher Waldrep, and Julia Sudbury. More.