https://www.priceinitiative.org/upcoming-events daily 0.75 2025-03-07 https://www.priceinitiative.org/upcoming-events/spring-2025-price-reading-group monthly 0.5 2025-03-07 https://www.priceinitiative.org/upcoming-events/4cbtg1ozsajr30p6o37mm1nx1u9w14 monthly 0.5 2025-02-05 https://www.priceinitiative.org/upcoming-events/transformation-in-the-dark-informational-criminal-legal-practices-and-the-formation-of-social-difference-in-the-digital-age monthly 0.5 2024-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b613f93ea301f3cfd21e3/659253ec-671c-4893-a48a-27402a853658/Jessica-Eaglin.png Upcoming Events - Transformation in the Dark: Informational Criminal Legal Practices and the Formation of Social Difference in the Digital Age - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.priceinitiative.org/past-events daily 0.75 2024-06-28 https://www.priceinitiative.org/past-events/spring-2024-price-graduate-brown-bag-workshop monthly 0.5 2024-05-29 https://www.priceinitiative.org/past-events/gods-enduring-irony monthly 0.5 2024-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b613f93ea301f3cfd21e3/c7c68109-e1fc-46de-b6eb-80105b9ac045/joseph-margulies.jpg Past Events - God’s Enduring Irony For those who care about titles, I am a Professor of Law and Government at Cornell University. Like most people, however, I have diverse interests that are not well captured by the content of my business card. Mostly, I am a student and litigator. Sometimes, I am a student of the American criminal justice system, and write about its cruelty and inequity. Other times, I am a student of neighborhood well-being, and ask what it takes to create and sustain healthy, vibrant and safe neighborhoods. And on other occasions, I am a civil rights attorney and critic of the national security state. For many years, I have defended people caught up in the excesses of the so-called war on terror. Wearing my academic hat, I have written a slew of articles and two books: What Changed When Everything Changed: 9/11 and the Making of National Identity (Yale 2013), and Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power (Simon & Schuster 2006). Guantánamo won a bunch of awards, which was very nice. I am working on two other books, including one on the politics of forgiveness, which asks who and what is forgiven in American life, and what the fault lines reveal about us, and another on neighborhood well-being, which asks whether a distressed community can save itself without setting the seeds for its own destruction. Wearing my civil rights hat, I was Counsel of Record in Rasul v. Bush (2004), involving detentions at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Station, and in Geren v. Omar & Munaf v. Geren (2008), involving detentions at Camp Cropper in Iraq. Presently I represent Abu Zubaydah, who was held in CIA black sites and whose interrogation in 2002 and 2003 prompted the Bush Administration to draft the infamous "torture memos." https://www.priceinitiative.org/past-events/when-black-police-almost-changed-the-world monthly 0.5 2024-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b613f93ea301f3cfd21e3/e9af4a71-660c-4ab9-b0b7-17aa99504b3f/VeslaWeaver_JHU0653.jpg Past Events - When Black Police Almost Changed the World Vesla Mae Weaver (Ph.D., Harvard, Government, and Social Policy) is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and faculty affiliate of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale University. A scholar of American politics, she writes about race, power, and political life. Weaver has produced leading scholarship and pioneered concepts to understand the role of incarceration and policing in race-class subjugated communities and the development and consequences of coercive institutions in American democracy. Weaver’s books include Arresting Citizenship and Creating a New Racial Order. Her next book, The State From Below: Racial Authoritarianism in US Democracy, amasses the most extensive collection of first-hand accounts of the police—by those who are policed—to date, using a new civic infrastructure called Portals. She co-directs the American Prison Writing Archive, the largest and first fully searchable digital archive of imprisoned people writing about their experience inside confinement in four hundred prison and jail facilities. Such projects unite a concern with positioning the unfree as central theorists of democracy. Weaver’s research has been supported by fellowships from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation (2017 fellow), Russell Sage Foundation, National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Brookings Institution, and owes her beginnings as a political scientist to the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute. She has written in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Review, Marshall Project, and Slate, among others. And she takes an active role in public debates about what it might mean to construct public space focused on civic health rather than surveillance. https://www.priceinitiative.org/past-events/the-political-consequences-of-fringe-economy-use-under-racial-capitalism monthly 0.5 2024-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b613f93ea301f3cfd21e3/e1177adb-8646-4280-8997-1c1b73f2aaaa/posey_patricia2.jpg Past Events - The Political Consequences of Fringe Economy Use Under Racial Capitalism Patricia Posey is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago as well as the Political Science Department’s junior faculty member for the Race and Capitalism Project, where she specializes in race and American political economy. Her current book project examines the effects of different banking and loan institutions on political attitudes and political participation. She is particularly interested in the effects of check cashing institutions, payday loan companies, pawn shops, and the like (collectively known as the fringe economy) on the attitudes of poor, black, and brown communities toward the state. The manuscript is based on her award-winning dissertation project which was awarded the Urban Politics Section’s Byran Jackson Dissertation Research on Minority Politics Award and supported by the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences’ Teece Fellowship, and the Department of Political Science. Dr. Posey’s research broadly examines the relationship between American political economy and race, with a focus on the links among capitalism, urban space, technology, and political behavior. She has a book chapter with Daniel Gillion on the effects of minority protest on government responsiveness that is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. Additionally, she has published with The Washington Post Monkey Cage and the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics - Politics of Color. More about her research is available here. Prior to joining the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago, Patricia Posey was a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, where she specialized in American Politics. She has been recognized as a Fontaine Fellow, Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow, American Political Science Association Ralph Bunche Scholar, and American Political Science Association Minority Fellow. Patricia Posey received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2019 and a double BA in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Florida in 2013. For more information, visit Dr. Posey’s personal website. https://www.priceinitiative.org/past-events/cancel-rent monthly 0.5 2021-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b613f93ea301f3cfd21e3/1616952394508-EVWMIZ6K9Z6JX354OZDP/akira-drake.jpg Past Events - Cancel Rent!: Housing Justice in a Post-Covid United States https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b613f93ea301f3cfd21e3/1616952342885-M2ALJXTC0VH0MTCWX4LJ/yolande-cadore.png Past Events - Cancel Rent!: Housing Justice in a Post-Covid United States https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b613f93ea301f3cfd21e3/1616952485900-BUZGOG4WPJMWI4K6JFU8/Michener_12.jpg Past Events - Cancel Rent!: Housing Justice in a Post-Covid United States https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b613f93ea301f3cfd21e3/1616952519067-COUNMCPGDZNMAFOXNGYC/42l6wyfb5mv-1568559968255.jpg Past Events - Cancel Rent!: Housing Justice in a Post-Covid United States https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b613f93ea301f3cfd21e3/1616952417360-2LM4Z0ENZETV2XJ916Q2/marcela-mitaynes.jpg Past Events - Cancel Rent!: Housing Justice in a Post-Covid United States https://www.priceinitiative.org/past-events/getting-free monthly 0.5 2024-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b613f93ea301f3cfd21e3/1594583326111-97S6897FF82OGWNSM7QP/beth-richie.jpg Past Events - Getting Free: Race & Abolition Beth Richie is Professor of African American Studies and Criminology, Law and Justice at The University of Illinois at Chicago. The emphasis of Dr. Richie’s scholarly and activist work has been on the ways that race/ethnicity and social position affect women’s experience of violence and incarceration, focusing on the experiences of African American battered women and sexual assault survivors. She is the author of Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence and America’s Prison Nation and Compelled to Crime: the Gender Entrapment of Black Battered Women. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b613f93ea301f3cfd21e3/1594585800202-D6Z60FAQ8H1Y6VMC8CW5/derecka-purnell.jpg Past Events - Getting Free: Race & Abolition Derecka Purnell is a human rights lawyer, writer, and organizer. She works to end police and prison violence by providing legal assistance, research, and training to community based organizations through an abolitionist framework. She helped build the Justice Project at Advancement Project’s National Office, co-created the COVID-19 Policing Project at the Community Resource Hub for Safety Accountability, and organized the founding steering committee for Law for Black Lives. She is currently a columnist at The Guardian and Deputy Director of Spirit of Justice Center at Union Theological Seminary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b613f93ea301f3cfd21e3/1594599883606-BCHEJMZAV7JFWYPHAUDO/russell-rickford.jpg Past Events - Getting Free: Race & Abolition Russell Rickford is an Associate Professor of History at Cornell University. He specializes in African-American political culture after World War II, the Black Radical Tradition, and transnational social movements. His most recent book, We are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination, received the 2016 Hooks Institute National Book Award and the 2017 OAH Liberty Legacy Foundation Award. He is the editor of Beyond Boundaries: The Manning Marable Reader. His other publications include Betty Shabazz: Surviving Malcolm X. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b613f93ea301f3cfd21e3/1594583374389-53MU68HSBIXEN21HAQW0/alex-vitale.jpg Past Events - Getting Free: Race & Abolition Alex Vitale is Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College. He has spent the last 30 years writing about policing and consults both police departments and human rights organizations internationally. Professor Vitale is the author of City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics and The End of Policing. He is also a frequent essayist, whose writings have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, The Nation, Vice News, Fortune, and USA Today. https://www.priceinitiative.org/past-events/event-four-84k5j monthly 0.5 2024-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b613f93ea301f3cfd21e3/1609534199705-4F3DHRL6KHTDFQUHIDYS/shasti-conrad.jpeg Past Events - Women of Color and the Future of U.S. Democracy Shasti Conrad is the first woman of color chair for the Martin Luther King County Democrats in WA State. In 2020, she founded Opportunity PAC and CTRL Z. She has built her career understanding how a new, more diverse generation thinks and operates and fighting for diversity and inclusion—from the White House and Princeton University to the private and nonprofit sectors. She has worked with Nobel Peace Prize winners Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi was the U.S. Campaign Manager for the 100 Million Campaign, a youth mobilization effort to end child labor and trafficking in the United States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b613f93ea301f3cfd21e3/1609533518787-TQISRJGUQ3YMYBRBBARV/Ilia-Calderon_profile_1536x1152.jpg Past Events - Women of Color and the Future of U.S. Democracy Ilia Calderón is an Emmy Award–winning journalist, the coanchor of Univision’s flagship evening newscast Noticiero Univision, and cohost of Univision’s primetime news magazine Aquí y Ahora. She is the first Afro-Latina to anchor a national weekday evening newscast for a major Hispanic broadcast network in the United States, having previously coanchored three other news desks for Univision and two for Telemundo. She is the author of Es mi turno: un viaje en busca de mi voz y mis raíces. She currently resides in Miami, Florida, with her husband and daughter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b613f93ea301f3cfd21e3/1609534312627-60SD8R9DBI828QE5WQRW/chryl-laird.jpg Past Events - Women of Color and the Future of U.S. Democracy Chryl Laird is an Assistant Professor of Government and Legal Studies at Bowdoin College. She studies American Politics with a specialization in race and ethnic politics and political psychology. Her book (with Ismail White), Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Political Behavior, examines how Black partisanship to the Democratic party is maintained through social networks and political norms. Her research and commentary has been featured on a number of media outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, The Atlantic, and FiveThirtyEight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b613f93ea301f3cfd21e3/1609534400659-54ZWRX88PMJTEDCI3Q81/jamila-michener.jpg Past Events - Women of Color and the Future of U.S. Democracy Jamila Michener is an associate professor in the department of Government at Cornell University. She studies poverty, race, and public policy in the United States. She is author of Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism and Unequal Politics (Cambridge University Press). Her current research examines the ways that civil legal institutions affect democratic citizenship in marginalized communities. She is co-director of the Cornell Center of Health Equity and chair of the advisory board for the Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP). https://www.priceinitiative.org/past-events/event-two-gdz9g monthly 0.5 2024-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b613f93ea301f3cfd21e3/1594590480206-A54VPB79ZRDUYNJ1E6O3/sergio-garcia-rios.jpg Past Events - Immigration, Racial Justice & Public Policy: Assessing Biden’s First 100 Days Sergio Garcia-Rios is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and Latino Studies at Cornell University. His research centers around the idea that immigrants develop portfolios of identities which are fluid, situational, and are used instrumentally. He also examines voter turnout, political participation, and public opinion, especially among Latino immigrants. Other academic interests include issues related to Latinos and the Voting Rights Act, border issues and border research, and the politics of Mexico. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b613f93ea301f3cfd21e3/1615753699095-8V1F9YQ85TKHDKX9GMKT/niambi-carter.png Past Events - Immigration, Racial Justice & Public Policy: Assessing Biden’s First 100 Days Niambi Carter is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Howard University. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University, working primarily in the area of American Politics with a specific focus on Race and Ethnic Politics, Black Politics, Public Opinion, and Political Behavior. She is the author of American While Back: African Americans, Immigration. She is actively involved in other work that examines sanctuary cities, lynching and race in American politiics, and the political ideology of African American Republians. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b613f93ea301f3cfd21e3/1615753831265-91AMLNPJNOKZWWDR504F/cecilia-munoz.jpg Past Events - Immigration, Racial Justice & Public Policy: Assessing Biden’s First 100 Days Cecilia Muñoz is a national leader in public policy and public interest technology with nearly three decades of experience in the non-profit sector and eight years of service on President Obama’s senior team. She joined the think tank and civic innovation platform New America in 2017 as vice president. She returned as a senior advisor in early 2021 after taking leave to lead the domestic and economic policy team for the Biden/Harris Transition. In 2020, she published the award-winning More Than Ready: Be Strong and Be You… and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b613f93ea301f3cfd21e3/1615753627293-HQ5LGRFBA95V94XBHP9S/deepak-bhargava.jpg Past Events - Immigration, Racial Justice & Public Policy: Assessing Biden’s First 100 Days Deepak Bhargava is a Distinguished Lecturer of Urban Studies at CUNY. He is a policy expert on issues of poverty, economic justice, racial equity, and immigration. Prior to CUNY, he was President and Executive Director of Community Change and Community Change Action for 16 years. He has trained and mentored hundreds of leaders who play key roles in progressive organizations and social justice movements, and worked to establish important labor-community partnerships at the national level on issues such as immigration reform, health care, and fiscal policy. https://www.priceinitiative.org/currentleadership daily 0.75 2024-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b613f93ea301f3cfd21e3/1594676354672-ZTDM6J4WTPOQFKGWB5NS/david-bateman.jpg Current Leadership - David A. Bateman Co-Director Personal Website | dab465@cornell.edu David A. Bateman is an associate professor in the department of Government and a member of the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University. His research focuses on democratic institutions, with a particular attention to how these can both reinforce structures of oppression and disenfranchisement as well as become sites for their transformation and dismantling. 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His current research includes an examination of the diverse forms and objects of political and economic activism undertaken by African Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and its importance for subsequent labor and civil rights organizing; and a political-historical analysis of the development of the ideas, institutions, and supporting organizations of “industrial democracy” in the United States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b613f93ea301f3cfd21e3/1594595902215-A6IPAL1190G6VYX913WX/jamila-michener.jpg Current Leadership - Jamila Michener Co-Director Personal Website | jm2362@cornell.edu | @povertyscholar Jamila Michener is an associate professor in the department of Government and the Senior Associate Dean of Public Engagement at the Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University. She studies poverty, race, and public policy in the United States. 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