UMass Boston

First Year Leadership Institute 

Time: 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Location: Integrated Sciences Complex, 3rd floor, Conference room (3300)
Organization: Student Ldrship and Community Engagement

This will be a part of the Management Achievement Program (MAP) workshop series 

Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Wheatley Hall, 2nd floor, Classroom 0158
Organization: College of Management

Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Campus Center, 2nd floor, Conference room (2540)
Organization: Political Science Department

Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Integrated Sciences Complex, 1st floor, Conference room (1400)
Organization: Political Science Department

Police and State Crime in the Americas: Southern and Post-Colonial Perspectives

Daniel Gascón, Associate Professor, Sociology and Criminology, University of Massachusetts Boston

My talk will explain how this volume builds on the burgeoning traditions of southern and postcolonial theory in sociology and criminology. This volume makes three key contributions: it problematizes dominant criminological thought by critically examining an often ignored topic such as state crime, highlights the enduring linkages between South, Central, and North America and better understand how Southern populations experience policing and state crime within the United States, and draws on Latin American experts in the South and the lived experiences of Latin American and indigenous populations to triangulate and contextualize social problems that pervade the Western Hemisphere. As a group of scholars coming from and having roots in the South, studying marginalized populations and state crime both in the North and in the South, we were confronted by a series of challenges stemming from mainstream thought in the field. We understand them as three tendencies: namely, criminology’s blindness toward crimes of the powerful state actors, its bias toward the positivist paradigm, and its tendency toward an epistemological imperialism of the Global North. I address each of these tendencies and demonstrate how we attempted to overcome them. This speech will end with a brief note about my ongoing research on historical police civil rights violations in Boston’s Latin Quarters and my future work focused on historical US military-backed human rights violations in El Salvador.

Keywords:

Postcolonial Theory, Critical Criminology, State Crime, International and Comparative Perspectives, Latin America

Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Campus Center, 3rd floor, Point Lounge (3000A)
Organization: Gastón Institute, Latino Studies Department, Sociology Department

LRC collaborative sessions

Time: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Wheatley Hall, 1st floor, Sandra L. Kanter Seminar Room (0078)
Organization: Labor Resource Center

Time: 3:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Softball field
Organization: Beacons Softball

Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: Integrated Sciences Complex, 3rd floor, Atrium (3000)
Organization: Political Science Department

Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location: Clark Athletic Center, lower level, Gymnasium (0099)
Organization: Beacons Men's Basketball

Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: Clark Athletic Center, lower level, Edward T. Barry Ice Rink (0090)
Organization: Recreation and Intramural Sports