• Criminal Law Panel

    Panel on innovations in criminal law! I'll be commenting on papers ranging from the politics of self defense to criminal responsibility of AI entities.

  • Emotional Labour of Conducting Research

    Sedas Nunes, 2E.03 Lisbon, Portugal

    At the LSA Annual Meeting in Lisbon, I will be the discussant for a panel about the emotional toll of conducting research; in my remarks, I'll share some of the experiences of working on my forthcoming book FESTER and supporting people behind bars in their darkest hours.

    Free
  • Sherlock Holmes & The Birth of Crime Science

    Manny's 3092 16th Street, San Francisco, United States

    "Watson, you know my methods," says Sherlock Holmes. But where did these methods come from? The 19th century was an era of immense excitement about scientific and methodological inventions, and these found their way into a nascent science of crime and forensics. It was a time of pioneering, but it also had a sinister side, […]

    $5 – $10
  • FESTER: Carceral Permeability and California’s COVID-19 Correctional Disaster

    Join me at UC Berkeley's Center for the Study of Law & Society for a talk about my forthcoming book with Chad Goerzen, FESTER: Carceral Permeability and California's COVID-19 Correctional Disaster. Even against the backdrop of pandemic mismanagement in the United States, the COVID-19 disaster in California's prisons stands out as the worst medical prison […]

    Free
  • Not Guilty!

    UC Hastings, Room 333-201 333 golden gate ave., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Learn about the historic Smithfield Trial, in which two activists who rescued sick piglets from a factory farm were found not guilty by a St. George jury! Let's talk about what this means for the animals and their advocates.

  • FESTER Release Party

    Manny's 3092 16th Street, San Francisco, United States

    Come celebrate with us the release of our book FESTER from UC Press! Party with book reading and signing as well as yummy food.

    Free
  • FESTER Event!

    Graduate Theological Union 2400 Ridge Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Book talk, flyers, and food!

    Free
  • Holistic Criminal Justice Symposium

    Vanderbilt Law

    My paper Plan B for Animal Activist Defense, which looks at the use of bread-and-butter criminal law arguments in cases of criminalized Direct Action for animals, is part of a special issue of the Vanderbilt Law Review. Come to the symposium and hear other papers on the extent to which the criminal process does and […]

    Free
  • Western Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting

    Come hear me talk about chapters 2-4 of my new book manuscript Behind Ancient Bars, discussing the carceral stories of Joseph, Esther, and Daniel! The whole conference is fantastic and offers a variety of Jewish Studies scholarship, including politics, culture, theology, literature, art, music...

  • ASC Award Ceremony for Fester

    Marriott Marquis Washington, DC 901 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC, United States

    If you are a member of the American Society of Criminology, please come to the awards plenary to celebrate FESTER receiving the Michael J. Hindelang Book Award! The award recognizes the book that makes the most outstanding contribution to research in the field of criminology. FESTER is a cultural history of the mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic in […]