Hadar Aviram

FESTER Release Party
2024-03-27 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Manny’s, 3092 16th Street, San Francisco, 94103, 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.

FESTER Event!
2024-04-18 12:45 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Graduate Theological Union, 2400 Ridge Street, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
Book talk, flyers, and food!

Holistic Criminal Justice Symposium
2025-01-31 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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 does not encompass the broader contexts of crime and punishment!

Shadows of Confinement: Illuminating Public Health Struggles Behind Bars
2025-02-22 08:30 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | DC
Come hear Aparna Komarla and yours truly give a talk about the lack of COVID information in jails! Our paper Secretive Sheriffs will appear in the Nevada Law Journal and we are participating in a symposium about healthcare behind bars.

Western Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting
2025-03-16 - 2025-03-17 | DC
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
2025-11-12 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Marriott Marquis Washington, DC, 901 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20001, 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 California’s prisons, the state’s worst-ever medical catastrophe in a carceral setting. Through first-person accounts, courtroom observations, policy documents, and years of carefully collected quantitative data, FESTER bears witness to the immense suffering wrought on people behind bars through dehumanization, fear, and ignorance and explains how carceral cruelty also threatens the health and well-being of all Californians. This book stands as a monument to the brave coalition of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people and their loved ones, along with activists, doctors, journalists, and lawyers, who fought to shed light on one of the darkest times in the Golden State’s correctional system.

FESTER is available for purchase from any book retailer in physical copy or digital forms, or on the UC Press website, where you can use the promo code UCPSAVE30 for a 30% discount.
