St. Louis-based writer, journalist, and poet Jacqui Germain will read from and discuss her debut collection of poetry, “Bittering the Wound,” a first-person retelling of the uprising in the wake of the shooting death of Michael Brown by a police officer.
A presentation by Brad Elliott Stone of Loyola Marymount University on Tuesday, Feb. 7, will kick off the 2023 spring semester programs for CSUSB’s Conversations on Race and Policing. The free programs are shared on Zoom.
“Policing’s Small Toolbox: Race and the Rise of Surveillance Policing,” presented by Matthew Guariglia, will take place at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, on Zoom. The program is free and open to the public.
“Struggling Against Police Terror: The Community Alert Patrol and Its Initiation of Strategies to Police the Police” will take place at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16, on Zoom. The program is free and open to the public.
M. Chris Fabricant, author of “Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System,” will discuss his book at the next Conversations on Race and Policing, set for 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, on Zoom.
Michael German, a Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty & National Security Program, and Arie Perliger, professor and director of security studies at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, will engage in a conversation with Brian Levin, director of CSUSB’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism. The program is set for 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2, on Zoom.
David Pimentel, a professor of law at the University of Idaho’s College of Law, will present “Civil Forfeiture: How Is This Still a Thing?” at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26. The program, free and open to the public, will take place on Zoom.
The next Conversations on Race and Policing talk is "Policing China: Street Level Cops in the Shadow of Protest,” set for 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19, on Zoom, and presented in partnership with the university’s Modern China Lecture Series.
Siobhan Brooks, professor of African-American Studies at Cal State Fullerton, and Cassandra Gonzalez, assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Sam Houston State University, will lead the discussion at the next Conversations on Race and Policing, 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12, on Zoom.