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Keynote Address: Friday, February 11, 2005
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G. Hill Ballroom Macalester College 7 p.m.
Welcome and Introduction of the keynote speaker by Dr. Duchess
Harris, Macalester College
Keynote Address:
“Incarcerated Intelligence: African Americans and the Prison
Industrial Complex”
Joy Ann James is Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University
and author. She is currently writing a book on the Central Park Case.
She works with various human rights organizations and is the founder
of The Harriet Tubman Literary Circle.
Saturday, February 12, 2005, Macalester College
 9–11
a.m. Panel One:
“Prison Industrial Complex: Past, Present & Future”
John B. Davis Lecture Hall, Campus Center
Presenters:
Anthony Alexander Haughton
“Convict Leasing in Louisiana, 1868–1901”
Rose Brewer and Nancy A. Heitzeg
“The Prison Industrial Complex:
Roots, Realities and Resistance”
11:30–1 p.m. Luncheon
Topic: “Is race a Factor in the Criminal Justice System: Inequality
in Sentencing”
Weyerhaeuser Board Room
Address:
Judge Pamela Alexander, Minnesota 4th Judicial District (Hennepin County)
1:30–3 p.m. Panel Two:
“Critical Perspectives on Incarceration”
John B. Davis Lecture Hall, Campus Center
Presenters:
Sarah Haley
“Racing the Feds: Race, Subjectivity and Federal Criminal Jurisprudence”
Sarah Walker
“Prison Reform: From Radical Social Movement to Interest Group
Advocacy”
3:30–5 p.m. Panel Three:
“Prison Writings: Incarcertated Voices”
John B. Davis Lecture Hall, Campus Center
Presenters:
andré m. carrington
“The Situation of Homosexuality: Revolutionary Love in the Writings
of Joseph F. Beam and P. Ombaka Tate”
Theresa C. Lynch
“Jerome Washington, His Right to Write, and the World of New York
Corrections”
5–5:30 p.m. Closing Remarks:
John B. Davis Lecture Hall, Campus Center
Convener:
Duchess Harris, Macalester College
Remarks:
Joy James
7 p.m.–10 p.m.
Weyerhaeuser Chapel, Macalester College
Introduction by Kim Euell
Video "Doing Time, Doing Vipassana"
Winner of the Golden Spire Award at the 1998 San Francisco
International Film Festival, this extraordinary documentary takes viewers
into India's largest prison - known as one of the toughest in the world
- and shows the dramatic change brought about by the introduction of
Vipassana meditation.
Discussion and video presentation by Reggie
Harris and Rachel Raimist
For many months, Reggie Harris and the "In the Belly"
collective of poets, musicians, and performers have been working with
the Stillwater Poetry Group (SPG) inside Stillwater
Correctional Facility. In a series of critical interdisciplinary workshops
designed to promote positive reconceptualizations of self, community,
and social justice, the artists use poetry to address themes like identity,
power, manhood, fatherhood, american dreams and the value of a woman.
The workshops, co-facilitated by both inside and outside artists, produce
spaces of potential and possibility, where all can expand their critical
thinking and work to affect change both inside and beyond the prison
walls. Working with filmmaker Rachel Raimist, Harris and company are
developing a video documentary about the SPG workshop. They will be
sharing an edit of the work-in-progress and discussing the project in
this session.
Reggie Harris is a poet, father,
grandfather, and cultural worker who has performed throughout the Twin
Cities and across the country. He is the program director of In
the Belly, a collective of artists and activists that
conducts critical intersiciplinary workshops within prisons, homeless
shelters, domestic violence programs, alternative school and chemical
dependency treatment agencies. Harris is also cofounder of Transitions,
a nonprofit that provides support services to these marginalized populations.
Rachel Raimist is filmmaker, scholar,
educator, hip-hop feminist, activist, community organizer, and mother.
She is most known for her documentary Nobody Knows My Name
about women in hip-hop and as the Videographer/Editor of the award-winning
films Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme and Estilo Hip Hop.
Currently, she is filming Central Touring Theater at Central High School
in St. Paul. She has written and photographed for The Source, URB,
Remix, and The Amsterdam News. Her work has been written about
in The Village Voice, Spin, LA Weekly, City Pages, and Jane
and she has appeared on The Jenny Jones Show, 60 Minutes, and
on numerous international radio shows and national news outlets. Rachel
received her B.A. and M.F.A in Film Directing from the UCLA School of
Film and Television. She has taught video production at the University
of California, Irvine and Los Angeles, and women of color/third wave
activism as a Visiting Instructor in the Women and Gender Studies
Program at Macalester College. Currently, she is pursuing her
Ph.D. in Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Special thanks to the Macalester President’s Office,
the Provost’s Office, and the Macalester Alumni Office.
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The
Honorable Pamela G. Alexander currently serves as a judge of
the 4th Judicial District Court, Criminal/Civil Division (Hennepin
County). She has also served as the presiding judge of the Hennepin
County District Court, Juvenile Division and as assistant chief
judge of the entire bench from 1996- 1998, being the first African-American
judge to serve in these positions. In 1983, the late Governor Rudy
Perpich appointed her as the . rst African- American woman to ever
serve as a judge in the state of Minnesota; she has presided over
cases for the past 18 years. Judge Alexander has served on the municipal
court and the district court. Prior to 1983, Judge Alexander worked
as the . rst African-American woman prosecutor in the state of Minnesota
with the Hennepin County Attorney’s Of. ce, Criminal Division.
