AGENDA

DAY ONE - MARCH 24

8:30AM Arrival

9:00-9:30AM Welcome

Julian Go, Stuart Schrader

9:30-11:00AM Session I

Zoha Waseem (University of Warwick, UK)

“Cultivating neo-colonial entanglements through penal reform? A critical glance at the politics of police reform, aid, and assistance in Pakistan”

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Markus-Michael Müller (Roskilde University, Denmark)

”Legacies of German Policing in Latin America”

11:00-11:15AM Coffee break

11:15-12:45PM Session II

Jesse Wozniak (West Virginia University)

“Shaping the State and its People: What Early US and Contemporary Iraqi Police Reveal About the Centrality of Policing to the Modern Capitalist State”

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Colleen Bell (University of Saskatchewan) and Lou Pingeot (University of Ottawa)

“Policing ‘at home’ and ‘abroad’ under settler colonialism: The case of Canada”

12:45-2:00PM Lunch

2:00-3:30PM Session III

Enrique Alvear (University of Illinois-Chicago)

“Predictive Policing and the Global Making of Crime Control at the Urban Margins of Santiago, Chile”

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Yanilda González (Harvard University) and Jessica Zarkin (Claremont McKenna College)

“Who Governs Policing? Mayors’ Strategic Linkages to Police in Latin American Cities”

3:30-3:45PM Coffee break

3:45-5:15PM Session IV

Andy Clarno (University of Illinois-Chicago)

“Webs of Imperial Policing: Johannesburg, Jerusalem, Chicago”

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Maya Van Nuys (University of Chicago)

“Better or Best? International Organizations and Standards in International Policing”

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DAY TWO - MARCH 25


10-11:30AM Session V

Karl Arvin Hapal (University of the Philippines) & Steffen Jensen (Aalborg U.)

“The nexus between politics and policing: State insecurity, necessary fictions, and violence”

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Kathryn Takabvirwa (University of Chicago)

“Policing the Postcolony: Race and Citizenship in Zimbabwe”

11:30-11:45AM Coffee break

11:45-1:15PM Session VI

Stephanie Saxton (Johns Hopkins)

“How Police Expand the State: The Case of the Maryland Oyster Police”

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Danielle Beaujon (University of Illinois-Chicago)

“The Peddlers and the Police: Commerce and Colonial Control in Algiers”

1:15-2:15PM Lunch

2:15-3:45PM Session VII

Sabrina Axster (Johns Hopkins)

“Punishing Mobility or Mobility Controls as Punishment: Colonialism, Vagrancy Laws and the Roots of Contemporary Border Controls”

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Adam Elliott-Cooper (Queen Mary, University of London)

“Abolishing Institutional Racism”

3:45-4:00PM Coffee break

4:00-5:00PM Session VIII

Discussion: Conclusions and Futures

Led by Stuart Schrader and Julian Go