tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30520996891896170932024-03-05T11:01:19.606-08:00Fencing in God: Exploring the Intersections of Religion, Immigration, and IncarcerationThe Institute of Religion, Culture, and Public Life is sponsoring Fencing in God? - a semester-long series of events focused on the ways in which religion and mobility intersect with immigration and incarceration. Throughout the Spring 2013 term, we will be presenting three public lectures with scholars and activists and three related film-screenings, intended to facilitate and encourage long-term discussions around the topics of religion, immigration, and incarceration.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10131508952570393665noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052099689189617093.post-23011617809966003032013-02-04T10:51:00.001-08:002013-02-04T10:51:05.800-08:00Religion and Incarceration: A conversation with Winnifred Sullivan and Julio Medina <div class="eventTimeLoc">
Thursday, March 14th, 2013, 6-8 pm<br />1501 IAB, 420 West 118th St</div>
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Featuring a conversation between <strong><a href="http://www.indiana.edu/%7Erelstud/faculty/sullivan.shtml">Winnifred Sullivan</a></strong> and <strong><a href="http://www.etcny.org/Julio_Medina.html">Julio Medina</a></strong>,
this talk will focus on religious mobility within confined spaces,
focusing on religious conversion within the American penal system. This
conversation will not only explore the complexities of conversion within
prisons, but also the ways in which religious faith -and activism- are
integral components of the modern prison-industrial complex. Moderated
by <a href="http://www.law.columbia.edu/fac/Brett_Dignam"><strong>Brett Dignam</strong></a>, Clinical Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.<br />
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<strong>Winnifred Sullivan</strong> is Department Chair and Profess
of Religious Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington and Affilliate
Professor of Law at the Maurer School of Law. She is the author of <em>Paying the Words Extra: Religious Discourse in the Supreme Court of the United States</em> (Harvard 1994), <em>The Impossibility of Religious Freedom</em> (Princeton 2005), and <em>Prison Religion: Faith-based Reform and the Constitution</em> (Princeton 2009). <strong>Julio Medina</strong>
is the Executive Director/Founder and CEO of Exodus Transitional
Community, Inc. Under his leadership, Exodus Transitional Community
(ETC) has served over 3,000 men and women and has become one of the most
successful re-entry programs throughout the country. Professor <strong>Brett Dignam</strong>
joined the Columbia Law School faculty in 2010. She came to Columbia
from Yale Law School, where she led the Prison Legal Services, Complex
Federal Litigation and Supreme Court Advocacy clinics. An award-winning
teacher, Professor Dignam has supervised students in a broad range of
litigation matters and has designed and overseen workshops conducted by
students for prisoners at the Federal Correctional Institution in
Danbury, Connecticut on issues including immigration, sexual assault,
and exhaustion under the Prison Litigation Reform Act. She has
participated in major litigation in over 30 federal and state cases in
the area of prisoners’ rights.<br />
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<strong>Fencing in God? – Religion, Immigration, and Incarceration</strong>
is a semester-long series of events focused on the ways in which
religion and mobility intersect with immigration and incarceration.
Throughout the Spring 2013 term, the IRCPL will present three public
lectures with scholars and activists, three related film-screenings, and
three lunch-time discussion sessions intended to facilitate and
encourage long-term discussions around the topics of religion,
immigration, and incarceration.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10131508952570393665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052099689189617093.post-29273276972199425342013-02-04T10:49:00.001-08:002013-02-04T10:49:40.520-08:00Fencing in God Film Series: Broken On All Sides<div class="eventTimeLoc">
Wednesday, March 6th, 2013, 6pm-8pm<br />613 Schermerhorn</div>
Please join us for a screening of <a href="http://brokenonallsides.com/about.php"><em><strong>Broken On All Sides</strong></em></a>.
The documentary centers around the theory put forward by many, and
most recently by Michelle Alexander (who appears in the movie), that
mass incarceration has become “The New Jim Crow.” That is, since the
rise of the drug war and the explosion of the prison population, and
because discretion within the system allows for arrest and prosecution
of people of color at alarmingly higher rates than whites, prisons and
criminal penalties have become a new version of Jim Crow. Much of the
discrimination that was legal in the Jim Crow era is today illegal when
applied to black people but perfectly legal when applied to “criminals.”
The problem is that through subjective choices, people of color have
been targeted at significantly higher rates for stops, searches,
arrests, prosecution, and harsher sentences. So, where does this leave
criminal justice? Through interviews with people on many sides of the
criminal justice system, this documentary aims to answer questions and
provoke questions on an issue walled-off from the public’s scrutiny.<br />
The screening will be followed by a discussion with <b>Laura McTighe. </b>Laura
is a Ph.D. student in North American Religions at Columbia University.
She earned her M.T.S. in Islamic Studies from Harvard Divinity School
in 2008, and her B.A. in Religion and Peace & Conflict Studies from
Haverford College in 2000. Her research centers on lived religion,
migration, and well-being, informed by an anthropology of social
suffering and structural injustice. She is particularly interested in
how these themes are negotiated and subverted by formerly incarcerated
and convicted people’s movements in the United States. Laura’s research
has unfolded in consistent conversation with her work to support
community-led responses to the twin epidemics of mass imprisonment and
HIV/AIDS. Her writings have been published in Islam and AIDS: Between
Scorn, Pity and Justice (2009), the International Journal for Law and
Psychiatry (2011), Beyond Walls and Cages: Bridging Immigrant Justice
and Anti-Prison Organizing in the United States (2012) and a variety of
community publications. She currently serves on the boards of Women
With A Vision in New Orleans, Men & Women In Prison Ministries in
Chicago and Reconstruction Inc. in Philadelphia. <b><br />
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<strong>This event is free and open to the public.</strong><br />
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<strong><strong>Fencing in God? – Religion, Immigration, and Incarceration</strong> </strong>is
a semester-long series of events focused on the ways in which religion
and mobility intersect with immigration and incarceration. Throughout
the Spring 2013 term, the IRCPL will present three public lectures and
three related film-screenings intended to facilitate and encourage
long-term discussions around the topics of religion, immigration, and
incarceration.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10131508952570393665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052099689189617093.post-88988992149721276152013-02-01T09:08:00.003-08:002013-02-01T09:08:48.293-08:00Sin Nombre: Free screening on February 13th<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10131508952570393665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052099689189617093.post-81025413448137554582013-02-01T09:07:00.002-08:002013-02-01T09:10:05.592-08:00Alyshia Galvez on February 12th<h2>
<a href="http://ircpl.org/2013/event/religion-and-immigration-a-talk-with-alyshia-galvez/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Alyshia Galvez on Guadalupan New York: Activism and Devotion among Mexicans in NYC">Alyshia Galvez on Guadalupan New York: Activism and Devotion among Mexicans in NYC </a></h2>
Tuesday, February 12th, 2013, 6-7:30 pm<br />
Room 707, International Affairs Building 420 West 118th St, NY<br />
<a href="http://anthropology.as.nyu.edu/object/anthroalumni.alyshiagalvez">Alyshia Gálvez</a>
is a cultural anthropologist (PhD, NYU 2004) whose work focuses on the
efforts by Mexican immigrants in New York City to achieve the rights of
citizenship. This talk asks: How do spaces of devotion become spaces of
activism? What role does faith play in the construction of civic spaces
and civil society among recent immigrant groups? What are the
limitations of these forms of social mobilization? This talk will
explore a decade of Guadalupan-based devotion and activism for
immigration rights among recent Mexican immigrants in New York City.
Based on Gálvez’s extended ethnographic research in New York City and
many years of activism and advocacy, she will reflect on the changing
immigrant rights movement and its intersection with faith based
institutions and organizations.<br />
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