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The Deep History of Incarceration

Matthew Larsen and Mark Letteney

January 3, 2022

A lecture sketching the outlines of the prison in the ancient Mediterranean world, and how modern practices of incarceration are — and are not…

Visions of Abolition: Black Women’s Fight to End Mass Incarceration

Nicole Fleetwood

February 9, 2021

Nicole Fleetwood will join us to discuss art and visual advocacy by black women to abolish prisons and to end punitive governance.

Past as Prologue: Storytelling about Resistance to Incarceration

May 8, 2020

Conversation featuring Kathy Boudin, Monica Cosby, Laura McTighe, and Toussaint Losier, moderated by Mariame Kaba.

Valerie Seeley: Interview by Victoria Law

April 14, 2018

Seeley discusses being criminalized for self defense, being granted clemency after 17 years in prison, and why she's fighting for the freedom of women…

“The fake road, its cruel deception, is what we have to abandon”: Normalizing the In/Security State: Police and Prisons

February 17, 2018

Featuring Jordan Camp, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Christina Heatherton, and Mariame Kaba, moderated by Tina Campt at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, "Subverting…

S&F Conference: Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence

Simone Browne, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Inderpal Grewal, Mariame Kaba, Cara Page, Nandita Sharma, and Dean Spade

November 17, 2017

This year’s Scholar and Feminist Conference will bring together a broad community of thinkers and organizers to grapple with the ever-deepening penetration of surveillance…

Fighting the Isolation and Dehumanization of Prisons and Policing

March 31, 2014

CeCe McDonald joins prison abolition activists Tourmaline and Dean Spade in a conversation about her own experiences surviving trauma and impossible situations, and the…
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