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Nov 20 In Conversation with Michael German, Brennan Center Fellow and former FBI Special Agent, on his recent book, "Policing White Supremacy: The Enemy Within" (The New Press, 2024) 1:00pm - 2:00pm Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/CSUSB-Race-And-Policing Nov 13 In Conversation with Dr. Daanika Gordon (Sociology, Tufts), on her recent book, "Policing the Racial Divide: Urban Growth Politics and the Remaking of Segregation" (NYU Press) 1:00pm - 2:00pm Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/CSUSB-Race-And-Policing Nov 6 "We Deserve Better": Contesting Racialized Sexual and Gender Policing, with Dr. Lydia Pelot-Hobbs (University of Kentucky, Geography) 1:00pm - 2:15pm Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/CSUSB-Race-And-Policing Oct 30 In Conversation with Neal Kelley, Registrar of Voters, Orange County, CA (Ret.). 1:00pm - 2:15pm Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/CSUSB-Race-And-Policing Oct 23 In Conversation with independent journalist and lawyer, Jessica Pishko, on her new book, "The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy" (Penguin Random House, 2024) 1:00pm - 2:00pm Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/CSUSB-Race-And-Policing Oct 16 Film Screening and Conversation with Mike Shum and Serginho Roosblad, "Documenting Police Use of Force" (Frontline) 1:00pm - 2:15pm Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/CSUSB-Race-And-Policing Oct 2 In Conversation with Spencer Sunshine (PhD, Sociology) about his new book, "Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s 'Siege'" 1:00pm - 2:15pm Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/CSUSB-Race-And-Policing Sep 25 In Conversation with National Book Award Winner, Author and Educator, Jason Mott 1:00pm - 2:00pm Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/csusb-corp-2024 Sep 18 In Conversation with Dr. Michael Sierra-Arévalo (UT Austin) on his new book, "The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, and the Soul of Policing" (Columbia U. Press) 1:00pm - 2:15pm Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/csusb-race-policing May 6 In Conversation with Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson (Wellesley) 12:00pm - 1:15pm Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ_krD0VmSg May 3 In Conversation with Dr. Marianne Celano (Emory), Dr. Marietta Collins (Morehouse) and Dr. Ann Hazard (psychologist/author) about their book "Something Happened in Our Town" 12:00pm - 1:15pm Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIMD1GGwzSo Apr 29 Film Screening and Conversation: “Fractured” -- a crisis among jail inmates living with severe mental illness 12:00pm - 1:30pm Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcfobLAOr_g Apr 22 In Conversations with Sahar Aziz (Rutgers Law) 12:00pm - 1:15pm Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpVINdBftWI Apr 15 The Police Can Lie to You: A Philosophy Prof and Former FBI Agent Discusses (Dr. Luke William Hunt, University of Alabama) 12:00pm - 1:15pm Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt8CbagkICU Mar 25 In Conversation with Dr. Daniel Gascón and LG Freierman of of University of Massachusetts, Boston 12:00pm - 1:15pm Recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0gixF-iIgY Mar 18 In Conversation with Dr. Tony Cheng (Duke, Sociology) 12:00pm - 1:15pm Recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPGs36oqMNM Mar 11 In Conversation with Dr. Samantha Simon (University of Arizona, Sociology) 12:00pm - 1:15pm Recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I2l3Xt3JLk Mar 4 In Conversation with Rosemary (“Ruby”) Nidiry (Brennan Center for Justice) 12:00pm - 1:15pm Recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l7tP-klEzw Feb 26 In Conversation with Gisela Perez Kusakawa (Asian-American Scholar Forum, director) 12:00pm - 1:15pm Recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPAkfQrqgoU Feb 12 In Conversation with Professor Vida Johnson (Georgetown) 12:00pm - 1:15pm Recording link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5EhLrC004E Feb 5 In Conversation with Jay D. Aronson (PhD) and Roger A. Mitchell (MD) on their book, "Death in Custody" 12:00pm - 1:15pm Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etVzxdxKbTs Nov 29 In Conversation with Dr. Matthew Guariglia (UC Hastings) 1:00pm - 2:15pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV_RhKwPb9o Nov 15 In Conversation with Professor Joanna Schwartz (UCLA) 1:00pm - 2:15pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otA9pjRkJrg Nov 8 In Conversation with Dr. Ronnie Dunn (Cleveland State University, Department of Urban Studies) 1:00pm - 2:15pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXiANKU__ZI Nov 1 In Conversation with Congressman Jamaal Bowman (NY, 16th District) 2:00pm - 2:45pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpemSdyO8iA Oct 25 In Conversation with Professor Dorothy Roberts (University of Pennsylvania) 1:00pm - 2:15pm Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xDLD1s4MGw Oct 18 In Conversation with Dr. Marisol LeBrón (UC Santa Cruz) 1:00pm - 2:15pm Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsSZk1sdTJg Oct 4 In Conversation with Julia Yoo, civil rights attorney 1:00pm - 2:15pm Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_3oKZFIeDs Sep 27 In Conversation with Guesnerth Josué Perea (Executive Director of the Afrolatin@ Forum) 1:00pm - 2:15pm Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgQg088fy9c Sep 20 In Conversation with Dr. Max Felker-Kantor (Ball State University, Indiana) 1:00pm - 2:15pm Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DojFb-jLPjg Sep 13 In Conversation with Drs. Robert Chao Romero (UCLA) and Jeff Liou (InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA) 1:00pm - 2:15pm Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B43TruK5P5E Sep 6 In Conversation with Juanita E. Mantz, Writer, Performer, Podcaster, Lawyer & Deputy Public Defender 1:00pm - 2:15pm Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37ImtVlpEMs May 9 In Conversation with Cat Brooks 1:00pm - 2:15pm Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RWHEKlnro8 May 2 "Paid For By Crime: Civil Asset Forfeiture and the War on Drugs, "In Conversation with Kenneth Alyass (Harvard) 1:00pm - 2:15pm Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEJXvgOXy0w Apr 25 "From Rhetoric to Action: Police Reform in a 'Post' Racialized America," In Conversation with Dr. Thaddeus Johnson (Georgia State University) 1:00pm - 2:15pm Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaXxC-tTF6Y Apr 18 In Conversation with Dr. Craig Futterman (University of Chicago) 1:00pm - 2:15pm Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l0PSEhUP14 Apr 11 In Conversation with Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham, Authors of "The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-up in Oakland" 1:00pm - 2:15pm Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTY9o_WBAEA Mar 14 IE to Ph.D. & Policing The Inland, A Conversation with Humberto Flores (UC Santa Barbara) 1:00pm - 2:15pm Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784 Mar 7 In Conversation with Dr. Beverly Gage (Yale, History), author of "G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century" (2022) 1:00pm - 2:15pm Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784 Feb 28 In Conversation with Award-Winning Journalist, Cerise Castle (Knock LA, NPR, LA Times, Vice) 1:00pm - 2:15pm Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdPQM7AEjEQ Feb 21 In Conversation with Alec Karakatsanis, civil rights lawyer and author of "Usual Cruelty" 1:00pm - 2:15pm Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784 Feb 14 In Conversation with Poet, Jacqui Germain, author of "Bittering the Wound" 1:00pm - 2:15pm Register here: https://csusb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_V8bAti77TcaQA9t3QsXWag Feb 7 Biopolitics and Necropolitics: Two Models of Race and Racism 1:00pm - 2:15pm Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784 Nov 30 Policing's Small Toolbox: Race and the Rise of Surveillance Policing, with Dr. Matthew Guariglia (UC Hastings) 1:00pm - 2:15pm Zoom Link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784 Nov 16 Struggling Against Police Terror: The Community Alert Patrol and its Initiation of Strategies to Police the Police, a conversation with Ron Wilkins 1:00pm - 2:15pm Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784 Nov 9 In Conversation with M. Chris Fabricant, author of "Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System" 1:00pm - 2:15pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_009PtfylBY Nov 2 In Conversation with Michael German (Brennan Center for Justice) and Arie Perliger (UMass Lowell), moderated by Brian Levin (CSUSB) 1:00pm - 2:15pm YouTube Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG76QoRdfWU Oct 26 Civil Forfeiture: How Is This Still a Thing? a Lecture and Discussion with Dr. David Pimentel (U. of Idaho) 1:00pm - 2:15pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76dJVv2PKV8 Oct 19 Policing China: Street Level Cops in the Shadow of Protest, a lecture and discussion with Dr. Suzanne Scoggins (Clark University) 1:00pm - 2:15pm Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784 Oct 12 Abolition, Sex Work, and Policing, in Conversation with Dr. Siobhan Brooks (CSU Fullerton) and Dr. Cassandra Gonzalez (Sam Houston State University) 1:00pm - 2:15pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1SHVz-Cv0U Oct 5 What is Accountability?: A History of Philadelphia's Police Advisory Board, with Dr. Aaron Bekemeyer (Harvard) 1:00pm - 2:15pm Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784 Sep 28 Indian Boarding Schools: Assemblymember James Ramos in Conversation with Robert Levi Jr. and Dr. Daisy Ocampo 1:00pm - 2:15pm Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784 Sep 21 Police Reform and Federal Consent Decrees, Dr. Zachary Powell, CSUSB 1:00pm - 2:15pm Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784 Sep 14 Policing Proof: Korryn Gaines, Body Cameras, and Anti-Blackness as a Scene, with Joshua Aiken (Yale) 1:00pm - 2:15pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW7WRIc_inE Sep 7 "Police on Trial" PBS Frontline Documentary Screening and Discussion 1:00pm - 2:30pm Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784 May 11 Financial Sanctions, Race, and Reform: Viewpoints from the Academy and from Lived Experience 12:00pm - 1:15pm Recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlda88TFMCU May 4 Policing and Its Alternatives: From Defund the Police to Abolition 12:00pm - 1:15pm Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlNYsamoFvU Apr 27 Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights 12:00pm - 1:00pm Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O893-cP_tyg Apr 13 Policing the Police: Film Screening and Discussion 12:00pm - 1:15pm Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784 Mar 23 The Impact of the Indian Boarding Schools, with Suggestions for Healing 12:00pm - 1:15pm Recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHmfSAJ4Rb8 Mar 16 Borderland Circuitry: Immigration Surveillance in the United States and Beyond 12:00pm - 1:15pm Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTkH52jURyU Mar 9 Everyday Violence against Black and Latinx LGBT Communities, Dr. Siobhan Brooks 12:00pm - 1:15pm Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4RFxCxySJg Mar 2 Midnight Basketball: Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy 12:00pm - 1:15pm Recording Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX-pXVXuVYM Feb 23 Dr. Tony Gaskew, Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black Liberation 12:00pm - 1:15pm Zoom webinar link here: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784 Feb 16 Mobilized by Injustice: Criminal Justice Contact, Political Participation, and Race 12:00pm - 1:15pm Zoom webinar link here: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784 Feb 9 Mental Health and Policing Panel Presentation 12:00pm - 1:15pm Zoom webinar link here: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784 Feb 2 Police Use of Excessive Force Against African Americans 12:00pm - 1:15pm Zoom Nov 23 Roundtable: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls 1:00pm - 2:15pm Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784 Nov 16 National Native News and Black Lives Matter 1:00pm - 2:15pm Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784 Nov 9 Kalief’s Legacy, Presented by Akeem Browder 1:00pm - 2:15pm Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784 Nov 2 The Whiteness of Blue Lives: Race in American Policing 1:00pm - 2:15pm Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784 Oct 26 Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives Are Surveilled and How to Work for Change 1:00pm - 2:15pm Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784 Oct 5 An Art for Both My Peoples: Visual Cultures of Black/Brown Unity, A Conversation with Dr. Daniel Widener 1:00pm - 2:15pm Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784 Sep 28 Roundtable Discussion: Bad Apples or Bad System? Corruption and Torture in the Chicago Police Department 1:00pm - 2:15pm Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784 Sep 21 The Impact of the Carceral State on the Lives of African American Women 1:00pm - 2:15pm Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784 Sep 14 Conversations on Race and Policing, Roundtable Discussion 1:00pm - 2:15pm Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784 Sep 7 “POLICE BRUTALITY” OR BUSINESS AS USUAL? 1:00pm - 2:15pm Zoom, Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784 Jun 1 Against Racism: Intersectional Justice for/in Palestine 12:00pm - 1:45pm Zoom May 26 Conversations on Race and Policing: A Year After the Murder of George Floyd 3:00pm - 5:00pm Zoom May 19 Making History and Removing Barriers: Recognizing Disparities and Holding the Sheriff's Office More Accountable 3:00pm - 5:00pm Zoom May 12 Film Screening and Discussion Pride Denied: Homonationalism and the Future of Queer Politics 3:00pm - 5:00pm Zoom May 5 “ Police Drug Raids: Context and Consequences in Public Health and Structural Racism” 3:00pm - 5:00pm Zoom Apr 28 Raced to Death in 1920s Hawai’i: Injustice and Revenge in the Fukunaka Case 3:00pm - 5:00pm Zoom Apr 21 “The Anti Police-Terror Project: A Dialogue with Cat Brooks” 3:00pm - 5:00pm Zoom Apr 14 “ A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South ” 3:00pm - 5:00pm Zoom Apr 7 The Pride of Lions 3:00pm - 5:00pm Zoom Mar 24 "Let the Fire Burn" 3:00pm - 5:00pm zoom Mar 17 Reflections on Resistance: The Community Alert Patrol and the Struggle against Police Terror 3:00pm - 5:00pm Zoom Mar 10 “Breaking Rank: A Top Cop’s Exposé of the Dark Side of American Policing ” 3:00pm - 5:00pm Zoom Mar 3 “Policing Different DNAs: How Our Focus on Diversity in Policing May Be Misguided ” 3:00pm - 5:00pm Zoom Feb 24 “Slavery by Another Name” A film screening and discussion 3:00pm - 5:00pm zoom Feb 17 Set the Night on Fire: LA in the Sixties 3:00pm - 5:00pm Zoom Feb 10 Project Rebound: Transforming Lives, Rebuilding Futures 3:00pm - 5:00pm Zoom Feb 3 “The Perils of Policing” 3:00pm - 5:00pm Zoom Jan 27 "Contrasting Police Responses: BLM and MAGA" 3:00pm - 5:00pm Zoom Dec 9 “Sundown Towns: Confronting a Racially Exclusionary Practice” 4:00pm - 6:00pm Zoom Dec 2 “Suing the Police and Qualified Immunity” 4:00pm - 6:00pm Zoom Nov 25 "Guerilla Warfare from the Street to the Courtroom" 4:00pm - 6:00pm Zoom Nov 18 South Asia at a Crossroads with BLM: Caste, Color, and Intersections of Identity 4:00pm - 6:00pm Zoom Oct 28 Why Prisons, Police, and ICE Contradict Public Safety 4:00pm - 6:00pm Zoom Oct 21 “Collisions at the Crossroads: Place, Mobility, and Policing Southern California” 4:00pm - 6:00pm Zoom Oct 14 "Over-Policing of Black Girls in Schools: From Zero Tolerance to Restorative Practices" 4:00pm - 6:00pm Zoom Oct 7 Police Unions in the U.S.: Perspectives in Historical Context 4:00pm - 6:00pm Zoom Sep 30 Declaring Racism a Public Health Crisis: What it Means and Where Do We Go From Here 4:00pm - 6:00pm Zoom Sep 23 conversations on race and policing series: white supremacists and militia extremists in police departments 4:00pm - 6:00pm Zoom Sep 16 "Policing of Indigenous Communities" 3:00pm - 5:00pm Zoom Sep 9 Conversations on Race and Policing: Police Brutality against People with Disabilities 4:30pm - 6:30pm Zoom Sep 2 The Limits of Community Policing: Civillian Power and Police Accountability in Black and Brown Los Angeles 4:00pm - 6:00pm Zoom Aug 25 "Cops on Film" 3:00pm - 5:00pm Zoom Aug 19 “Profiled: The Mothers of Murdered Black and Latino Youth” 4:00pm - 6:00pm Zoom Aug 12 CONVERSATIONS ON RACE AND POLICING SERIES: DACA 4:00pm - 6:00pm Zoom Aug 5 The end of Policing 4:00pm - 6:00pm Zoom Jul 29 Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise (2016) Part 4 “Touch the Sky” 4:00pm - 6:00pm Zoom Jul 22 Criminal Justice and the LGBTQIA Community 4:00pm - 6:00pm Zoom Jul 15 Film Screening of "White Like Me" 4:00pm - 6:00pm Zoom Jul 8 The Pfau Library Presents: Conversations on Race and Policing Series: A Student-Hosted Panel Discussion with Students, Campus guests and Faculty 4:00pm - 6:00pm Zoom Jul 1 The Pfau Library Presents: Conversations on Race and Policing Series: A Student-Hosted Panel Discussion with Students, Campus guests and Faculty 4:00pm - 6:00pm Zoom Jun 24 The Pfau Library Presents: Conversations on Race and Policing: A student-hosted panel discussion with students, campus guests and faculty 4:00pm - 6:00pm Zoom Jun 17 California State University, San Bernardino’s Pfau Library Presents Conversations on Race and Policing A Student-Hosted Panel and Conversation with Students, Campus Guests and Faculty 4:00pm - 6:00pm Zoom Jun 10 Conversations on Race and Policing A Student-Hosted Panel Presentation and Campus Conversation Featuring Students, Staff, Administrators, Faculty, and Campus Guests 4:00pm - 6:00pm Zoom Jun 3 Race and Policing 4:00pm - 6:00pm Zoom