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Interdisciplinary Conversation On Anticarceral Feminism

Date:
Location:
Zoom
Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):
Dr. Emily Thuma

NIETZEL VISITING DISTINGUISHED FACULTY COLLOQUIUM
DR. EMILY THUMA
INTERDISCIPLINARY CONVERSATION ON ANTICARCERAL FEMINISM

The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies invites you to an exciting conversation with Dr. Emily Thuma, author of All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence (University of Illinois Press, 2019) and Assistant Professor of U.S. Politics and Law at The University of Washington, Tacoma. Dr. Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Assistant Professor of Geography and African American & Africana Studies at University of Kentucky and Dr. Ashley Ruderman-Looff, from the Department of Crime and Justice at U-Mass Dartmouth and an alumna of the University of Kentucky GWS PhD program, will join Dr. Thuma in conversation about the history of anticarceral feminism. They will examine its intersectional emergence from movements for racial and economic justice, prisoners’ and psychiatric patients’ rights, and gender and sexual liberation. This timely conversation is made possible with funds from the Graduate School

 

THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2021 3:30PM VIA ZOOM

REGISTER AT: https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_s-fdmALzQ3SkLM4BuZtl1A