Abolition Everywhere National Convening Program

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Conference Program

Friday, April 4

6:30 a.m.: Breakfast at Embassy Suites for hotel guests begins
7:45 – 8:45 a.m.: Shuttle service to campus for Embassy Suites hotel guests on loop

Following Sessions at Mary Graydon Center, �鶹��Ƶ��Ʒ

8:30 – 9:00 a.m.

Coffee bar with light breakfast and Check-in

9:00 – 9:30 a.m.

Opening Remarks

9:45 – 11:30 a.m.

Plenary Panel I : Abolitionist Frameworks

Orisanmi Burton (American U)
Priya Kandaswamy (San Diego State U)
Silky Shah (Detention Watch Network)
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò (Georgetown U)

11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Lunch (provided)
Book exhibit with vendor BOL, DC’s first worker-owned bookstore.

12:45 – 2:30 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions:

Challenging Carceral Logics of Gender & Sexuality
Grounded Struggles I: Confronting Carceral Geographies
Abolition & The State

Move to McKinley Building, 2nd Floor

2:30 – 2:45 p.m.: Coffee/Tea Bar
2:45 – 4:45 p.m.: Film Screening and Post-Film Talk:
Ghosts of Adelanto & the Rise of Abolish ICE
Producers Setsu Shigematsu (in-person) and Cinthya Martinez (virtual)
(conference participants and speakers are automatically registered)
5:00 – 6:00 p.m.: Pre-Keynote Reception
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.: Keynote Address: Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore
(conference participants and speakers are automatically registered)
8:15 – 9:15 p.m.: Shuttle service from campus to Embassy Suites for hotel guests on loop

Saturday, April 5

6:30 a.m.: Breakfast at Embassy Suites for hotel guests begins
8:15 – 9:15 a.m.: Shuttle service to campus for Embassy Suites hotel guests on loop

All Sessions at Mary Graydon Center, �鶹��Ƶ��Ʒ

9:00 – 9:30 a.m.

Breakfast and Check-in (Mary Graydon Center at AU)

9:30 - 9:45

Day Two Opening/Updates

9:45 – 11:30 a.m.

Plenary Panel II: Abolitionist Praxis

Tanay Harris (Bloom Collective)
Laura McTighe (Women With A Vision)
Jasmine R. Jackson (National Black Food & Justice Alliance)
Connie Wun (AAPI Women Lead)
Chair: Jane Palmer (American U)

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Lunch (provided)
With lunchtime exhibition of “Shattering Justice & Re-Making the Muslim Threat,” a physical and digital exhibition, developed by Muslim Counterpublics Lab, that meticulously documents key events, policies, and laws implemented in the United States following the 9/11 attacks and the launch of the War on Terror. View digital version

12:45 - 2:30 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions:

The Biopolitics of Incarceration
Grounded Struggles II: Freedom is a Place
Unraveling the Global Politics of Policing

2:30 p.m.

Coffee / Tea Bar

3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Plenary III: Abolitionist Futures—A Moderated Conversation
Sarah Haley (Scholars for Social Justice, Columbia U)
Dylan Rodriguez (UC Riverside)
Naomi Paik (U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Moderator: Sara Clarke Kaplan (American U)

4:30 – 5:15 p.m.

Abolition in a Time of Crisis: Open Dialogue
In this current political moment, gatherings like these can be opportunities for much-needed coalitional organizing. In that spirit: how do the radical histories, organizing traditions, analytical tools, and future vision(s) of abolition inform and equip us for the work to be done right now?
Facilitator: Sara Clarke Kaplan

5:15 – 5:30 p.m.

Closing Remarks

5:45 – 6:45 p.m.

Shuttle service from campus to Embassy Suites for hotel guests on loop

Concurrent Sessions I

Challenging Carceral Logics of Gender & Sexuality

Chair/Discussant: Sara Clarke Kaplan (American U)

Presenters:

Jane Palmer (American U), "The Political is Personal: Antidotes to the Carceral Logics of Everyday Life"
Austin Lukondi (New York U), "'Free Them All' Means Everyone: Towards Abolishing Registries of Sexual Violence"
Maya Pendleton (upEND) and Alan Detlaff (U of Houston), “Reproductive Justice, Family Policing, and Abolition”

Grounded Struggles I: Confronting Carceral Geographies

Chair/Discussant: Malini Ranganathan (American U)

Presenters:

David C. Turner III, Mariah Tso & Joana Chavez (UC Los Angeles) “Archiving, Mapping, and Documenting the Fiscal and Human Cost of Incarceration with the Million Dollar Hoods Project”
Kavya Padmanabhan (Rice U) "‘Globalizing’ Penal Abolition in Western Contexts: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and England and Wales"
Maha Hilal (Muslim Counterpublic Lab; American U) "Incarcerated Muslims in War on Terror: Towards an Inclusive Abolitionist Politic"
Manissa Maharawal (American U) "The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project: Counter Mapping for Housing Justice"

Abolition & The State

Chair/Discussant: Kirstie Dorr (American U)

Presenters:

Jarrett Martin Drake (U at Buffalo) “Towards an Abolitionist Approach for Studying the State”
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs (U of Kentucky) “Abolition and the Question of the State”
Josh Lown & Mutual Aid Eastie/Apoyo Mutuo (Northeastern U; Mutual Aid Eastie/Apoyo Mutuo) "Addressing the challenges of embodying abolition-oriented praxis in mutual aid organizations: The case of Mutual Aid Eastie/Apoyo Mutuo”
Netfa Freeman (Black Alliance for Peace DC)

Concurrent Sessions II

The Biopolitics of Incarceration

Chair/Discussant: Tracy Weitz (American U)

Presenters:

Gabrielle Corona (Princeton U) “Plasma, Public Health, and Prisoners in Late Twentieth Century Louisiana"
Carolyn Sufrin (John Hopkins U) “Punished with Pregnancy: Biopolitics of Abortion Foreclosure in Carceral Institutions”
Mali Collins (American U) “The Carceral Hospital: Debt, Birth, and Imagining a New World of Health”
Sara Clarke Kaplan (American U)

Grounded Struggles II: Freedom is a Place

Chair/Discussant: Kenjus Watson (American U)

Presenters:

Bethany Murray, Pharren Miller, Shantell Missouri (UC Los Angeles) "(Abolitionist) Care, Not Cops: Redefining Safety in Schools through Community-Led Campaigns”
Garrett Graddy-Lovelace (American U) "Towards Abolitionist Agrarian Geographies: of Kentucky, of Palestine"
John West (U of Illinois, Chicago) “Are we still doing this schooling thing?: Abolitionist Pedagogies and Black Educational Fugitive Space”

Unraveling the Global Politics of Policing

Chair/Discussant: Orisanmi Burton (American U)

Presenters:

Brendan Hornbostel (George Washington U) “ Policing Is Capital in Washington, D.C.: An Abolitionist Counter-History of the Metropolitan Police Department”
Zoltan Gluck (American U) & Wangui Kimari (American U Nairobi) “Postcolonial Abolition: The Failure of Police Reform and the Case for Abolition in Kenya (and Beyond)”
Oliver Robinson (Pan-African Community Action)
Frank Godinez (UC Los Angeles) "Police, Nonprofits and the Carceral Web: A Study of Police Nonprofits in Los Angeles City"
Christina Cano (Yale U) "From Weelaunee to Falasteen: The Role of the Nonprofit Police Foundation in Carceral Expansion”