Most Recent Lectures

2011	“Constructing the Ghetto: History, Theory, Comparison.” Urban Social Processes Workshop and Culture and Social Analysis Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, 16 November.

2011	“Penalization as Racial Reaction, Poor Discipline, and State Crafting.” Plenary session on “A Nation of Suspects: Surveillance and Securitization in the Punitive State,” annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Montréal, 19 November.
2011	“Taking the Penal State Seriously.” Special session on “The Many Hands of the State” (Kim Morgan and Ann Shola Orloff), annual meetings of the Social Science History Association, 17-20 November, Boston.
2011	“Penalization as a Modality of State Action.” Conference on Criminalization, School of Law and Criminology, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, 7-9 September 2011.
2011	“Not the New Jim Crow: Class, Race, and Place in the Making of the Penal State.” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Assocation, Las Vegas, 20-22 August.
2011	Discussant, Fifth Junior Theorists Symposium, American Sociological Association, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 19 August.
2011	“Homo Carnalis: What Boxing Reveals About Social Life.” Keynote to the interdisciplinary conference on “Cultures of Boxing,” Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland 7-8 July.
2011	“Social Insecurity, Ethnic Anxiety and the Penal Boom.” Keynote to the British Society for Criminology Annual Conference (“Economies and insecurities of crime and justice”), Northumbria University, Newcastle, England, 4-6 July.
2011	“Territorial Stigmatization Revisited.” Keynote to the International Conference on Territorial Stigmatization and Advanced Marginality, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 22 June.
2011	“Poverty, Race, and Prison in America.” Interview on Punishing the Poor with C.S. Soong, Against the Grain, KPFA radio (94.1 FM), broadcast 8 June, Berkeley.
2011	“The Return of the Prison and How to Stop It.” Public address to the 20^th Anniversary conference of Antigone, Italian Parliament, Rome, Italy, 20 May.
2011	“Penality, Marginality and Sovereignty.” Opening keynote to the Punishment & Society Conference, Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research and School of Law, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, 11-13 May.
2011	“Social Theory for a Civic Sociology.” Special Workshop, Department of Sociology, Boston College, Boston, 28 April.
2011	“Hyperincarceration in Revanchist America: Class, Race and the Booming Prison.” Boston College, Lavizzo-Mourey Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture, Sociology Department, Boston College, Boston, 27 April.
2011	“Panique sécuritaire, insécurité sociale et immigration en Europe.” Public lecture organized by the Ligue suisse des droits de l’homme, Théatre St Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland, 22 March.
2011	“L’habitus comme intelligence incorporée.” Journées d’études pluridisciplinaires sur L’intelligence des corps, Department of Philosophy, Université de Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Nanterre, France, 5 January.

2011 “Constructing the Ghetto: History, Theory, Comparison.” Urban Social Processes Workshop and Culture and Social Analysis Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, 16 November.