@ Stanford: Humanities Center
@ Stanford: Humanities Center
Legal Histories of the Body and the State: Dobbs and the Legacies of Regulating Gender & Sex
@ Stanford: Humanities Center 424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA, United StatesOn June 24th, 2022, a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court declared in Dobbs v. Jackson that “the right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and tradition.” In the aftermath of the ruling, millions of people find themselves with less reproductive autonomy and health-care providers are struggling to navigate a new legal playing […]
Legal Histories of Disease
@ Stanford: Humanities Center 424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Stanford Center for Law and History will hold its fourth annual conference, “Legal Histories of Disease” as a hybrid event in-person at the Stanford Humanities Center and online via Zoom. The conference will explore how the law has historically responded to health crises and what contemporary insights can be drawn from this history. The […]
Carceral Imaginaries: A Panel on Arts, Race, and Incarceration
@ Stanford: Humanities Center 424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA, United StatesSponsored by Stanford Arts Institute, Stanford Humanities Center, and Stanford Criminal Justice Center. Please join the Stanford Arts Institute for a panel discussion with leading scholars on Carceral Imaginaries: A Panel on Arts, Race, and Incarceration. The panelists will explore the intersection of criminal justice and narratives of incarceration. From the preservation of African music and […]
Felon: Poems
@ Stanford: Humanities Center 424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA, United StatesSponsored by Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Stanford Law School Criminal Justice Center, Humanities Center, Program in Ethics in Society, Stanford Arts Institute Reginald Dwayne Betts transformed himself from a sixteen-year old kid sentenced to nine-years in prison to a critically acclaimed writer and graduate […]