Spring Brown Bag Series
Presenter: Anne Johnson, PhD Candidate, Sociology Department
Topic:"Significant Bodily Intrusions": Ethical Implications of Law Enforcement Phlebotomists
April 22, 2022 - 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Location: CH 171 or on Zoom (Meeting ID: 845 4558 4498) Password: spring
Presenter: Dr. Sahan Dissanayake
Topic: "Using Large-N Surveys for Economics Analysis: Understanding Preferences and Valuing Nature"
May 13, 2022 - 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Location: CH 171 or on Zoom (Meeting ID: 845 4558 4498) Password: spring
Presenter: Wynn Strange, PhD Candidate, Sociology Department
Topic: "Queer enby resistance to biopower and the agency in relational subjectivity through gender and name changes"
May 27, 2022 - 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Location: CH 171 or on Zoom (Meeting ID: 845 4558 4498) Password: spring
Other Events
The 1st Annual Robert Liebman Sociology Lecture
Presenter: Dr. Brittany Friedman
Thursday, May 19, 2022
5:30 Pacific Time
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The rapid transmission of Covid-19 has been a disaster for Black communities and is further exacerbated by the longstanding consequences of mass Black incarceration. In this talk, sociologist Brittany Friedman discusses the social factors that make prisons natural epicenters for Covid-19 and the implications for Black communities in the wake of the Covid-19 disaster.
Biography:
Brittany Friedman is assistant professor of sociology and faculty affiliate of the Center for Social Innovation and the Equity Research Institute at the University of Southern California. Dr. Friedman is a sociologist of punishment and social control, researching race and prison order, inequality, mobilization against the carceral state, and the criminal legal system as an economic market. Friedman is Co-PI of a comparative study of inmate reimbursement practices, also known as “pay-to-stay.” She is a 2021-2022 American Bar Foundation/JPB Foundation Access to Justice Faculty Scholar, examining the relationship between legal representation, pay-to-stay, and civil recoupment strategies. Friedman is PI of an ongoing study of Covid-19 penal policy, which traces how formal and informal practices affect the conditions of confinement in prisons.