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Upcoming Events

• September 26–28, 2019

  Prison Abolition, Human Rights, and Penal Reform: From the Local to the Global

  The Rapoport Center will host in Austin an interdisciplinary conference to consider the relationships among the human rights, prison abolition, and penal reform movements. We invite proposals for papers, panels, art, or other forms of presentation from activists, practitioners, and scholars in all disciplines.
• September 26, 2019

  Meanwhile: Making Abolition Geographies

  Speaker:

  • Ruth Wilson Gilmore Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, American Studies; Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
  The Rapoport Center and the Rothko Chapel are pleased to announce that Ruth Wilson Gilmore will headline the fifth annual Frances Tarlton “Sissy” Farenthold Endowed Lecture in Peace, Social Justice and Human Rights.
• October 14, 2019

  Tracing the Progress of Gay Rights in Political Economy

  Speaker:

  • Libby S. Adler Professor of Law and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Northeastern University
• October 28, 2019

  Black Women, Land and Citizenship in the Diaspora

  Speaker:

  • Keisha-Khan Y. Perry Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Brown University
• November 11, 2019

  Economic Empowerment in the Global Periphery: Leaning in to Credit, Property, and Entrepreneurship

  Speaker:

  • Vasuki Nesiah Associate Professor of Practice, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University

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