I’ve been invited to attend a series of workshops put on by Project Safe Neighborhoods titled Strategic Problem Solving & Research Partnerships for Violence Reduction. The session will be held in Nashville on March 26.
I’ve been awarded a grant to visit the National Archives in Washington, D.C. for a week in March. I’ll be researching my asylum case study, and more specifically, combing through the records of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital during the early 20th century.
Next Wednesday I’ll be giving a lecture on race and mass incarceration to the students in Cathy Cohen’s Contemporary African American Politics course.
I’ll be moderating a co-sponsored workshop (Social Theory, Political Theory, 3CT) for Wendy Brown on Jan. 10. The working title of the paper is “Sacrificial Citizenship: Neoliberalism, De-Democratization, Austerity Politics”.
I’ll be presenting a draft chapter from my dissertation at the Political Theory Workshop on Feb. 25. Please come if you can, I’d love to hear your feedback.
Allen Linton II and I will be giving a talk this afternoon to students at Kelly High School on voter ID laws and the politics of voter suppression.
I’ll be in Boston next week, Oct. 15-20, collecting data for the first case study of my dissertation. Five days of combing through various archives and interviewing interesting people — should be wonderful!
The schedule is now posted for the fall Political Theory Workshop. The first session of the academic year will be held on Oct. 8.
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’ve accepted an invitation to moderate a panel on graduate student research in the social sciences at the University of Chicago. The conversation will be great; join me this Saturday, June 2nd at 2:45pm in Harper Memorial Library.
Christopher D. Berk 