Join the Prison Studies Group for its Third Annual Graduate Student Conference, on Friday, April 12, 2013 at the Graduate Center, CUNY.   “Police, Prisons, and Power: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Criminal Justice” features original research from PhD candidates from across the country, discussing historical, contemporary, national and international issues related to criminal justice.   Five interesting panels cover the [de]construction of the carceral state, reentry, the culture of crime and punishment, gender and the system, and policing.   Capping off the day is a keynote address from Soffiyah Elijah, executive director of The Correctional Association of New York.   Please …

THE SAFETY NET, SEQUESTRATION AND AUSTERITY POLITICS  Where we are headed. What we can do. The PSC Social Safety Net Working Group is pleased to invite you to our second conference, which will take place on April 8, 2013 at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. As the title above indicates, the focus of this event is the impact that sequestration may have on social safety net programs – Social Security, Medicare, pensions and the full range of programs that we have fought for and earned and that many retirees, children, students and low-income people depend upon. Featured speakers include DEAN …

  April 22 & 23, 2013 , 11am-4pm Brooklyn College, SUBO Penthouse, 7th Floor Trends in the sustainable production, distribution, and consumption of food and approaches to world hunger. Guest speakers will include: Paul Thompson, Michigan State University Frances Moore Lappe, Author of Diet for A Small Planet; Martin Schreibman and Beatriz Beckford and a panel of Brooklyn food activists. Monday April 22: 11AM-12:30PM Paul Thompson, Philosophy, Michigan State University “Hopes & Promises of a Sustainable Food System: What Does the Future Hold? Respondent: Michael Menser, Philosophy, Brooklyn College 12:30-2PM Sustainable Lunch with Paul Sachs performing folk songs 2:15-3:30 PM …