due: 2-18-2013 / Police, Prisons, and Power: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Criminal Justice
The Prison Studies Group’s Third Annual Graduate Student Conference
April 12, 2013
Graduate students are invited to submit proposals for The Prison Studies Group’s third annual interdisciplinary graduate student conference to take place at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York on April 12, 2013. This year’s conference is entitled “Police, Power, and Prisons: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Criminal Justice.”
The aim of the conference is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for emerging scholars whose research relates to the prison and criminal/juvenile justice systems. We welcome papers across academic fields, and we encourage submissions on a broad range of subjects on the general theme of crime and punishment – past and present, domestic and international.
Topics might include:
Each presentation will be 12-15 minutes long, with time reserved at the end of each panel of presentations for Q&A.
Graduate students interested in participating should submit the following as an email attachment (.doc/x or .pdf) by Monday, February 18, 2013 to prisonstudiesgroup@gmail.com:
paper abstract not exceeding 300 words;
name as it should appear in the program;
graduate program in which student is enrolled (school, department and degree working toward);
brief bio to be read as an introduction at the conference;
an indication of any a/v needs such as power-point, dvd, video, etc.
Participants will be notified by March 1, 2013.
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The Prison Studies Group
Chartered by the Doctoral Student Council
The City University of New York, Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York NY 10016
http://theprisonstudiesgroup.commons.gc.cuny.edu/