Call for Presentations – 1st Annual Anarchism, Crime, and Justice Conference
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
1st Annual Anarchism, Crime, and Justice Conference
at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, USA
THEME:
Prison Abolition, Transformative Justice, and Fighting Repression
March 26 and 27, 2016
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DESCRIPTION
Activists and scholars working within the realm of challenging the current punitive criminal justice system are welcome to submit for the 1st Annual Anarchism, Crime, and Justice Conference, an anarchist criminology conference. This conference is structured around challenging and abolishing punitive justice, while promoting community-based alternatives such as restorative justice, transformative justice and Hip Hop battling. This conference welcomes all those interested in providing performances, workshops, lecturers, teach-ins, roundtables, and film screenings. Topics of interest include prison abolition, prisoner support, critiques of political repression, police abolition, de-colonialism, abolition of zero tolerance policies and the school to prison pipeline, all forms of academic repression, corporate repression, state terrorism, all things pertaining to youth justice, total liberation, intersectionality, horizontalism, LGBTTQQIA, mutual aid, disability liberation, Black liberation, indigenous sovereignty, racial justice, animal liberation, environmental justice, green anarchism, anarchism, and justice. This conference also welcomes all forms of art and music for social justice such as Hip Hop activism.
SUBMISSIONS
To submit your presentation for this conference please send the following information in a Word Doc. Title, 80 to 100 word third person biography in a paragraph, and a 150 to 200 word abstract.
Please send all information as an attachment via e-mail to: anarchistcriminology@gmail
DEADLINE
The deadline to submit materials for a presentation at the conference is February 11, 2016. You will know if you were accepted to present by February 15, 2016.
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SCHEDULE
Saturday March 26, 2016
9:00am Welcoming
9:30am
Room 1. Panel
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Room 2. Workshop/Roundtable
11:00am
Room 1. Panel
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Room 2. Workshop/Roundtable
12:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm
Room 1. Panel
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Room 2. Workshop/Roundtable
3:00pm
Room 1. Panel
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Room 2. Workshop/Roundtable
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Sunday March 27, 2016
9:30am
Room 1. Panel
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3.
Room 2. Workshop/Roundtable
11:00am
Room 1. Panel
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3.
Room 2. Workshop/Roundtable
12:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm
Room 1. Panel
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2.
3.
Room 2. Workshop/Roundtable
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For more information contact:
Anthony Nocella nocellat@yahoo.com or 315-657-2911
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Sponsors
Department of Sociology
Save the Kids
Durango Hip Hop
Durango Prisoner Letter Writing
Sociology Club
Dirty Hands Collective
Peace Studies Journal
Poetry Behind the Walls
Wisdom Behind the Walls
Academy for Peace Education
Institute for Hip Hop Activism
Critical Animal Studies Academy
Outdoor Empowerment
Eco-ability Collective
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