Past Events
Spaces of Justice: Staten Island Courthouse
June 14, 2018
Tour the recently completed Staten Island Courthouse with the project's design team-Susan T. Rodriguez, design partner, and Christopher Halloran, project architect,...
Creative Time and The Fortune Society present Bring Down the Walls
May 5, 2018 - May 26, 2018
Creative Time, in partnership with The Fortune Society, artist Phil Collins and over 100 collaborators, presents Bring Down The Walls, a three-part public art project...
From Inferno to Metamorphosis: Building A Movement to End Mass Punishment
April 12, 2018
FROM INFERNO TO METAMORPHOSIS: BUILDING A MOVEMENT TO END MASS PUNISHMENT A talk by James Forman, Jr. (Yale University School of Law) April 12, 2018 6:00 pm Columbia...
In Conversation: Exploring Race and Whiteness in America Today with Whitney Dow and Claudia Rankine
March 7, 2018
In Conversation: Exploring Race and Whiteness in America Today Panelists: Whitney Dow and Claudia RankineModerated by Joy Reid March 7th from 12-1:30pm (90 minute...
Why the U.S. Should Get Out of the Youth Prison Business
November 30, 2017
The Justice Working Group is a collaborative effort of the Columbia Population Research Center (CPRC) and the Center for Justice to assemble faculty, research scientists...
Storytelling in Rikers
October 27, 2017
Sahar Ullah, Heyman Center Public Humanities Fellow (2016 - 2017), has been working with Columbia University's Rikers Education Initiative to design and facilitate a...
Situational Trust and Police-Calling as Third-Party Penal Welfarism
October 26, 2017
The Justice Working Group is a collaborative effort of the Columbia Population Research Center (CPRC) and the Center for Justice to assemble faculty, research scientists...
Seminar with Bruce Western
September 28, 2017
The Justice Working Group is a collaborative effort of the Columbia Population Research Center (CPRC) and the Center for Justice to assemble faculty, research scientists...
Insurgent Knowledges: Book Discussion
September 18, 2017
"Taking a unique, multifaceted insider’s perspective,” Dr. Sojoyner in “First Strike delves into the root causes of its ever-expansive prison system and disastrous...
A Woman’s Celebration
May 14, 2017
A Woman’s Celebration is Love Thyself First’s 2nd Annual woman’s wellness celebration centered on self-love and mental health advocacy.