Activism and Social Movements

Faculty

Susan Coutin (Criminology, Law and Society)
Joe DiMento (Planning, Policy and Design, Criminology, Law and Society, Newkirk Center)
David Frank (Sociology)
Helen Ingram (Planning, Policy and Design)
Val Jenness (Criminology, Law and Society)
Simon Leung (Studio Art)
Cecelia Lynch (Political Science and CGPACS)
David Meyer (Sociology)
Calvin Morrill (Sociology)
Kevin Olson (Political Science)
Francesca Polletta (Sociology)

Center Events

Spring 2007

• Colloquium: Frank Affilito, "Democracy Building, The Rule of Law and Guatemala's Families of the Disappeared," October 18, 2007.
• Public Lecture: Susan F. Hirsch (George Mason University), "The Quest for Justice after Terror: Perspectives from an Anthropologist/Victim", October 16, 2007.

Spring 2007

• Colloquium: Sally Engle Merry (New York University), "Anthropological Perspectives on Human Rights and Global Legal Pluralism," May 3, 2007.
• Author-Meets-Reader Workshop: Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice by Sally Engle Merry (New York University), May 4, 2007.
  Readers:
  Maddie Adelman (Arizona State University)
  Marianne Constable (UC Berkeley)
  Inderpal Grewal (UC Irvine)
  Steve Mailloux (UC Irvine)

Winter 2007

• Critical Legalities Symposium: Race, Ethnicity and Inequality, January 26, 2007.
  Carroll Seron (UC Irvine), Moderator
  Jeannine Bell (University of Indiana)
  Laura Gomez (University of New Mexico)
  Ruth Peterson (Ohio State University)
  Jonathan Simon (UC Berkeley)
  Kitty Calavita and David Goldberg (UC Irvine), Commentators

Fall 2006

• Critical Legalities Symposium: The Look of Law, October 19, 2006.
  Artist participants:
  Silvia Kolbowski
  Speculative Archive
  Ashley Hunt
  Jeff Cain
  Trevor Paglen
  Dorit Cypis
  
  Faculty participants:
  Jared Sexton (African American Studies and Film and Media Studies)
  Dina Al-Kassim (Comparative Literature)
  Tom Boellstorff (Anthropology)
  Simon Cole (Criminology, Law and Society)
  Peter Krapp (Film and Media Studies)
  Bliss Lim (Film and Media Studies)

Fall 2005

• Critical Legalities Symposium: International Tribunals, October 11 - 12, 2005.
  Cecelia Lynch (UC Irvine), Moderator
  Richard Falk (Princeton University and UC Santa Barbara), "World Tribunal on Iraq: An Initiative of Global Civil Society"
  John Hagan (Northwestern University), "The Flip-Flop Science of U.S. Diplomacy in Darfur: The Very Political Science of an International Court Referral"
  Wayne Sandholtz (UC Irvine), "The International Criminal Tribunals: Creating Authority"
  Richard Wilson (University of Connecticut), "Defining Genocide: Race and Ethnicity at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda"

Presentations of Faculty Work

Winter 2007

• Quarter Meeting: Discussion of "Big Books and Social Movements" by David S. Meyer (Sociology, UC Irvine), February 26, 2007.

Co-Sponsored Events

Spring 2007

• Co-Sponsored Event: Ethnography Workshop with Sally Engle Merry (New York University), May 3, 2007.

Winter 2006

• Speaker Nivedita Menon (University of Delhi) on "Law, Sexuality and Feminism in India", March 8, 2006.