Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, the 2024 Ford Foundation Disability Futures Fellow, is the featured speaker when the Disability Studies Lecture Series hosts its first event for the 2024-25 academic year. The free talk will take place at 1 p.m. Tuesday on Zoom.
Sociologist Spencer Sunshine will be the next guest speaker at the next Conversations on Race and Policing, set for 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2, on Zoom. Free and open to the public, Sunshine will discuss his recent book, “Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege.”
Author Jason Mott will discuss his latest work, “Hell of a Book,” 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, on Zoom as part of the ongoing speaker series at Cal State San Bernardino. The program is free and open to the public.
Michael Sierra-Arévalo, author of “The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, and the Soul of Policing,” will be the program's first guest speaker for the 2024 academic year, set for 1 p.m. Sept. 18 on Zoom. The series began after the May 2020 murder of George Floyd that spurred subsequent protests calling for systemic reforms in policing and profound dialogues on race and racism.
The authors, Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins and Ann Hazard, will participate in a conversation about their book, which aims to answer children’s questions about traumatic events “and to help children identify and counter racial injustice in their own lives.”
Gascón, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, is making his third appearance in the series. He is the author of a recent article, “The Hispanic Outreach: Network Analysis of a Community-Based Policing Program in South Los Angeles,” published in Critical Sociology.
Perry Link, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese at UC Riverside, will discuss his latest book, “I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo,” 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, in-person and on Zoom.
Tony Cheng, who wrote “The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input,” will discuss his work at noon, Monday, March 18. The program, free and open to the public, will take place on Zoom.
Samantha Simon, the author of the recently published “Before the Badge: How Academy Training Shapes Police Violence,” will discuss her book at noon, Monday, March 11. The program, free and open to the public, will take place on Zoom.