The workshop meets monthly at the Graduate Center’s Sociology Department and via Zoom* unless otherwise noted.
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Upcoming Spring 2025 Workshops
Friday, April 25, 4-6 PM
Paula Merikoski (Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Helsinki) on her ethnographic work “Living and working with a precarious migration status in Finland”
Iulia-Cristiana Vatau (Ph.D. Criminology, University of Oxford) sharing a paper titled, ““A Court that Cares”: Necropolitics and the Punitive Culture of Chilean Drug Treatment Courts”
Thursday, May 1, 4-6 PM
David Garland (Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology, New York University) on his forthcoming book, Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment (Princeton University Press, 2025)
Past Workshops & Presenters
Spring 2025
February 21, 4-6 PM: Angela LaScala-Gruenewald (Ph.D. candidate, CUNY Graduate Center) on “Political Gestures, (Hidden) State Capacity, and the Rise of New York’s Revenue-Generating LFOs”
March 28, 4-6 PM: Dr. Alex Vitale (CUNY Brooklyn College and Graduate Center) on “Toward an Abolitionist Epistemology (2024 article linked here) and Zack Del Rosso (Ph.D. candidate, CUNY Graduate Center) on “Immigrant Law-and-Order Entrepreneurs: The Central Role of Storeowners in a Punitive Crime
Policy Movement within the World’s Borough.”
Fall 2024
September 27, 5-6:30 PM: Dr. Sergio Grossi (John Jay College) on “Crit-Eduprison” and Miranda Grundy (Ph.D. student, CUNY Graduate Center) on “Reducing the Incarceration of Women in Rhode Island”
October 25, 5-6:30 PM: Drs. David Brotherton and Danny Kessler (John Jay College) on forthcoming book, “What’s Love Got to Do with It? Credible Messengers and the Power of Transformative Mentoring,” and Siobhan Pokorney (Ph.D. candidate, CUNY Graduate Center) on ““My Story Is Not In Nobody’s Books”: Black disabled mothers’ experiences with the family policing system in New York City”
November 14, 5-7 PM: Happy hour at American Society of Criminology Annual Conference (San Francisco)
December 6, 5-6:30 pm: End-of-semester planning meeting and party
Spring 2024
April 9, 4-6 PM: Organizing Meeting
May 7, 4-6 PM: Organizing Meeting
*Accessibility & Building Access: Workshops happen in a hybrid format on Zoom and in person. Non-CUNY visitors are required to show a government-issued photo ID upon entering the building. If you have any accessibility needs, need help accessing the Graduate Center as a non-CUNY participant with no photo ID, or need assistance with Zoom, please email the workshop student organizer, Angela LaScala-Gruenewald, at alascalag@gradcenter.cuny.edu.
