#  Policing, Racism, and Human Rights speaker series 

 



##  ***State Violence Studies: Understanding the Relationship between Police Violence, Citizenship, and Democracy***

 **[Jinee Lokaneeta](https://jineelokaneeta.com/)**, Professor in Political Science & International Relations and Associate Dean of Curriculum at Drew University, author of *The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India*  
**April 23 at 3pm ET / 12pm AZ**  
**[Zoom Webinar link](https://harvard.zoom.us/j/92457242629?pwd=S3g2TVlXZkx0Yk1sRXdNTkoxRTlVZz09)**

##  ***PAST EVENT: Youth Incarceration and the Contradictions of Prosecutorial Discretion***

 **[Laurence Ralph](https://anthropology.princeton.edu/people/faculty/laurence-ralph)**, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center on Transnational Policing at Princeton University, author of *The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence*  
**February 21 at 3pm ET / 1pm AZ**  
**CGIS South Room 250** on Harvard campus to meet speaker in-person (and help yourself to tea and snacks)!  
**[Zoom Webinar link](https://harvard.zoom.us/j/97674984745?pwd=MSsxTGE0MlBUQ1IwRHNpUThaSjVodz09)** for remote participants

##  ***PAST EVENT: Abolition and Dispossession***

 **[Derecka Purnell](https://www.derecka.com/)**, human rights lawyer, scholar-in-residence at Columbia Law School, and author of *Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom*  
in conversation with  
**[Walter Johnson](https://scholar.harvard.edu/wjohnson/home)**, Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, author of *The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States*  
**March 26 at 3pm ET / 12pm AZ**  
**CGIS South, Room 250 354** on Harvard campus to meet speakers in-person (and help yourself to tea and snacks)!  
**[Zoom webinar link](https://harvard.zoom.us/j/93571182447?pwd=R2swSldOZTQ3dTNzNE1yc0hhSi84Zz09)** for remote participants

 Hosted by [Jessica Katzenstein](/people/jessica-katzenstein), Inequality in America Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow

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