During WWII, Chaïm Perelman (1912-1984) helped found and lead the Comité de Défense des Juifs (Jewish Defense Committee), which saved the lives of 5,000 Belgian Jews. In 1947, Perelman founded the New Rhetoric Project as a response to the Holocaust and the failure of reason to prevent violence and war. In 1958, Perelman and his colleague Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca published The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation, which established the anchors of a new rhetoric, founded on informal logic and featuring the technique of dissociation. Professor Frank will place the New Rhetoric Project in its historical context, argue it is a Jewish rhetoric and the most important rhetoric of the 20th century, and that dissociation is a brilliant yet undeveloped notion.

This will be a celebration event for all that was accomplished during the week.  Prizes will be given, etc., and it can count as a Wired event!

Reversing Trajectories will take place on April 16th, 17th and 18th. This conference will focus on the substantive links between incarceration and violence and their political results. We also have a subfocus of the conference on trajectory analysis (download and install) which is a useful tool in empirically studying these issues. 

Visit the QIPSR website for more information.

Thursday, April 17th , 2014

8:45-9:00 AM: President’s Room of the Singletary Center for the Arts

Introduction: Thomas Janoski, Director of QIPSR

Logic of the Conference, Claire Renzetti, Chair of the Sociology Department, UK.



9:00-10:30 AM: President’s Room of the Singletary Center for the Arts

Traci Burch, Political Science, Northwestern University.

Trading Democracy for Justice: Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation

Discussant: Mark Peffley, Political Science, University of Kentucky

10:45 AM-12:15 PM President’s Room of the Singletary Center for the Arts

Christopher Wildeman, Sociology Department, Yale University.

Children of the Prison Boom  or Detaining Democracy

Discussant: Brea Perry, Sociology, University of Kentucky

12:15-1:00 PM BOX LUNCH President’s Room of the Singletary Center for the Arts

1:00 PM to 2:30 PM President’s Room of the Singletary Center for the Arts

Alex Piquero, Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Texas at Dallas.

Criminal Trajectories and Human Capital

Discussant: Carrie Oser, Sociology, University of Kentucky

2:45 to 4:00 PM  President’s Room of the Singletary Center for the Arts

Amy Lerman, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, 

Punishment and Political Psychology.

Presider: Abby Cordova, Political Science, University of Kentucky

FRIDAY, APRIL 18th, 2014

8:30-8:50 AM, Continental Breakfast, Ovids around the corner at the W. T. Young Library

9:00-10:30 AM, W. T. Young Library Auditorium, 1st Floor.

Robert Apel, School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University

The Role of the Labor Market in the Criminal Career

Discussant: Janet Stamatel, Sociology, University of Kentucky

11:00 AM-12:30 PM W. T. Young Library Auditorium, 1st Floor.

Policy Recommendations

Traci Burch, Political Science, Northwestern University.

Alex Piquero, Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Texas at Dallas.

Amy Lerman, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley  

Presider: Justin Wedeking, Political Science, University of Kentucky

In 1964, Goldberg, alongside Nelson Mandela and six others, were tried and convicted for trying to overthrow the apartheid regime in South Africa. He spent the next 22 years in prison, and was released in 1985 on the condition that he be exiled from his native South Africa to Israel.

After his release, Goldberg instead traveled the world organizing international opposition to apartheid, becoming a spokesperson for the African National Congress, then the leading anti-apartheid organization and current ruling party of South Africa. Since South Africa's transition to democracy in 1994, Goldberg founded Health Education and Reconstruction Training (H.E.A.R.T.), a nongovernmental organization that supports local initiatives aimed at improving health, education and reconstruction in contemporary South Africa.

Goldberg's talk will highlight pivotal episodes in his life as a leading member of the anti-apartheid struggle, as recounted in detail in his recent autobiography "The Mission: A Life for Freedom in South Africa" (STE Publishers, 2010).

Jody Miller, Professor of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, examines how inequalities of gender, race, and class shape young women’s participation in crime and risks for victimization. Her books include the award winning Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence (NYU Press, 2008) and One of the Guys: Girls, Gangs, and Gender (Oxford University Press, 2001).