BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Anthropology Department\, co-sponsored by the Engaged Human ities Center\, welcomes Justin Helepololei to deliver his lecture\, "Aboli tionist Realities of the Northeast."Drawing on activist\, ethnographic res earch conducted in New England\, this talk will highlight some of the dile mmas that prison abolitionists face in contexts where jails are run by she riffs who see themselves as progressive reformers. Focusing on the competi ng use of "care" discourses by both abolitionists and jail supporters\, th e talk will explore the deeper cultural entanglements that complicate this field of struggle.The second half of the talk will focus on Central New Y ork. It will present some of Justin's more in-progress thinking about Hau denosaunee responses to harm that long pre-date the existence of prisons\, and how spaces of privilege\, such as highly-selective college campuses\, might offer fraught\, though generative examples of "abolitionist realiti es."Justin Helepololei is an assistant professor of anthropology at Colgat e University in Hamilton\, New York. DTEND:20250129T173000Z DTSTAMP:20260512T001905Z DTSTART:20250129T160000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Abolitionist Realities of the Northeast UID:RFCALITEM639141275454268640 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Anthropology Department\, co-sponsored by the Engaged Humanities Center\, welcomes Justin Helepololei to deliver his lecture\, "Abolitionist Realities of the Northeast."

Drawing on activist\, ethnographic research conducted in New England\, this talk will highlight some of the dilemmas that prison abolitionists face in contexts where jails are run by sheriffs who see themselves as progressive reforme rs. Focusing on the competing use of "care" discourses by both abolitionis ts and jail supporters\, the talk will explore the deeper cultural entangl ements that complicate this field of struggle.

The second half of th e talk will focus on Central New York. It will present some of Justin's mo re in-progress thinking about Haudenosaunee responses to harm that long p re-date the existence of prisons\, and how spaces of privilege\, such as h ighly-selective college campuses\, might offer fraught\, though generative examples of "abolitionist realities."

Justin Helepololei is an assi stant professor of anthropology at Colgate University in Hamilton\, New Yo rk.

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