Seminar series: Contemporary Trends in Policing

 

 

 

 

 

This seminar series organized by the Transformative Policing Group within the Contesting Governance Platforms and focuses on contemporary trends in policing. These trends touch upon contemporary conceptual debates and pressing societal matters. For more information, please contact us.

Seminar 1: The Limits of Legal Formalism: Police Abolitionist Movements in the Global South and Europe

Tuesday April 20th 2021, 15:00-16:30, with speaker Alex S. Vitale and Veronika Nagy as a Discussant from Utrecht University 

Alex S. Vitale is Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College. His recent book The End of Policing explores the radical expansion of the scope and intensity of US policing over the last 40 years and lays out a variety of non-punitive alternatives for enhancing public safety.  

Seminar 2: The New Security Imperialism

Wednesday May 19th 2021, 16:00-17:30, with speaker Catherine Besteman, with Ajay Bailey as a discussant from Utrecht University. .

Catherine Besteman teaches anthropology at Colby College. Her most  recent book  is Militarized Global Apartheid. She is currently working on an abolitionist public humanities project called Freedom and Captivity. 

Seminar 3 : Memory politics and security in Northern Ireland

Tuesday 8 June 2021, 17:00 - 18:30 with speaker Kevin Hearty and Iva Vukusic as a Discussant from Utrecht University.

Kevin Hearty is a Research fellow at the School of Law, Queen’s University in Belfast. With an emerging academic profile in interdisciplinary empirical socio-legal research his main research interests lie in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and Memory Politics.

Kevin Hearty is a Research fellow at the School of Law, Queen’s University in Belfast. With an emerging academic profile in interdisciplinary empirical socio-legal research his main research interests lie in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and Memory Politics.

The purpose of the seminar series is to bring Policing and Security experts together from in and outside Utrecht University. It is a great opportunity to meet colleagues with common (research) interests. We hope to see you there!

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