My panel submission titled “Punishment and Political Conflict” was accepted to the annual conference of the American Political Science Association. The panel will be chaired by Naomi Murakawa (Princeton), and I’ll be presenting a draft chapter from my boarding school case study.

I’ll be in New York City next month (March 14-15) for NSSR’s Fourth Annual Radical Democracy Conference [poster here, agenda here]. The keynote speaker will be Drucilla Cornell (Rutgers), and panels are composed of graduate students from around the world studying contemporary democratic theory.  The tentative title of the panel on which I’ll be presenting is “Radical Democratic Practice” — I couldn’t ask for a better audience for my Walpole case study.

This will be my first year presenting at the Social Science History Association’s annual conference, Nov. 21-24. I’m on an amazing panel titled “Taking the ‘Crime’ Out of Criminal Justice: Non-Criminal Aspects of Arrest and Incarceration in the United States.”

I’ll be in Boston next week presenting a revised draft of my research on Walpole at the Law and Society Association’s (LSA) Annual Meeting. The working title of my paper is “The Politics of Participation in a Maximum Security Prison.”

Video of the entire conference is now available here, and my short (and a bit tongue-tied) commentary on Ewald’s paper is here (my comments begin at 48 minutes). A written copy of my comments will be made available next month in the The Carceral Notebooks.

I’ll be responding to a paper written by François Ewald (“After Risk”) with Julie Chu and Bernard Harcourt at the “Future of Risk” conference this Friday, May 11. The program is available here. Papers available here.

I’m the discussant for a theme panel titled The Changing Face of State Power: Policing Innovations and the Politics of Rights in the U.S. It’s a great set of panelists (Burch, Gottschalk, Harcourt, Provine), check it out Sept. 2 @ 8am.

Gabe Mathless and I will be presenting our paper “Crime, Politics, & Municipal Courts” on the Unequal Provision of Urban Services panel at the American Political Science Association annual meeting in Seattle. Come see us Friday, September 2nd @ 2pm.