#  Histories of the Carceral State: Policing in and Beyond the United States 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 17, 2023** 

 All day 

####  pin\_drop Location 

  **David Ellwood Democracy Lab R-414-AB and 434 AB Conference Room**  



 

 



 

 [EVENT WEBSITE](https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/policing-symposium)

 This symposium will focus on the historical and contemporary challenges of policing in communities of color in the United States. Scheduled in connection with a screening of the film *Aswang*, this gathering will bring together some of the nation’s leading scholars on policing and the carceral state. Participants will explore the historical legacies in the colonial, revolutionary, and antebellum eras, as well as modern police violence in BIPOC communities, on college campuses, and within empires. The panel discussions for this event will be in-person, open to members of the Harvard community, and cover topics such as police violence and racial capitalism, policing in early America, twentieth-century policing in urban spaces, and the intersection of policing and empire.

##  Schedule: 

 8:30 am - 9:00 am: **Continental Breakfast**

 9:00 am - 10:30 am: **Panel: Police Violence and Racial Capitalism**  
**Davarian Baldwin**, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies, Trinity College  
**Cornell William Brooks,** Hauser Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit Organizations and Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership and Social Justice, Harvard University   
**Donna Murch**, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University   
**Laurence Ralph**, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center on Transnational Policing, Princeton University  
**Heather Ann Thompson**, Frank W. Thompson Collegiate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan  
**Walter Johnson** (Moderator), Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

 10:30 am - 10:45 am: **Break**

 10:45 am - 12:15 pm  **Panel: Policing in Early America**   
**Leslie Alexander,** Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of History, Rutgers University and Carr Center Racial Justice Fellow  
**Whitney Fields,** Ph.D. Candidate in History, Rutgers University-New Brunswick  
**Luke Frederick,** Doctoral Student, Doctor of Philosophy in History at Georgetown University  
**Michael Ralph,** Professor and Chair of Afro-American Studies, Howard University   
**Walter Rucker,** Professor of African American Studies and History, Emory University   
**Sandra Susan Smith** (Moderator), Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice and Director, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard University

 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm: **Lunch (Lunch will be provided)**

 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm: **Panel: Policing in 20th Century U.S. Urban Spaces**  
**Simon Balto,** Assistant Professor of History, College of Letters and Science Mary Herman Rubinstein Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison and Carr Center Racial Justice Fellow  
**Max Felker-Kantor,** Associate Professor of History, Ball State University  
**Johanna Fernández,** Associate Professor of History, CUNY Graduate Center  
**Carl Suddler,** Associate Professor of History, Emory University  
**Brandon Terry** (Moderator), John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and the co-director of the Institute on Policing, Incarceration, and Public Safety, Harvard University

 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm: **Coffee and Tea Break**

 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm: **Panel: Policing and Empire**  
**Liza Black**, Associate Professor of History and Native American and Indigenous Studies, Indiana University Bloomington  
**Yanilda González,** Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University   
**Willie Mack,** Assistant Professor of Black Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies, University of Missouri  
**Christen Smith**, Director for the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies and Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology, University of Texas - Austin  
**Stuart Schrader**, Associate Research Professor, Center for Africana Studies and Associate Director, Program in Racism, Immigration, & Citizenship, Johns Hopkins University  
**Julian Go** (Moderator), Professor of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture and the Committee on International Relations, University of Chicago  
  
**Preregistration for this event is required. You can register for this event [here](https://hksexeced.tfaforms.net/f/event-registration?c=701Pp000002L0yMIAS)!**

 *This symposium is co-sponsored by the Institute on Policing, Incarceration & Public Safety, the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, and the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research.*

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