BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.2// METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.3127.events_uoft_date.0@www.humanities.utoronto.ca CREATED:20240221T163949Z DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nTuesday, March 05, 2024 3:00 pm to 4:30 p m \n Debates Room \n Hart House \n 7 Hart House Circle \n\nSpeakers \nLaur ence Ralph \n\nDescription: \nJoin us for 'Grief, Accountability, and Yo uth Incarceration' with Professor Laurence Ralph, Professor of Anthropolo gy at Princeton University. This Public Talk is part of a 2023-2024 Andrew Mellon Sawyer Seminar titled “Evasion: Thinking the Underside of Surveill ance.” About the talk:This talk examines the ramifications of juvenile inc arceration. Since the 2010s, brain development studies have greatly influ enced US Supreme Court proceedings concerning juvenile crime. These studie s suggest that the prefrontal cortex—which is responsible for impulse cont rol, planning, and risk avoidance—is still developing until the age of t wenty-five. Defense attorneys and public defenders increasingly use brain science to support the position that adolescents’ incompletely developed b rains render them not fully blameworthy and makes it inappropriate to sent ence them as adults. And yet, US prosecutors have wide discretion to work around the US Supreme Court’s ruling on the status of juveniles. Moreover , even if prosecutors base their sentences on the Court’s findings, the governor of their state can replace them. One consequence of prosecutorial discretion, in other words, is that the law is unevenly applied, makin g it difficult for a victim’s family to heal from homicide. Drawing from t he literature in child psychology as well as the sociology and anthropolog y of urban violence, I argue that, as a society, our idea of accountabi lity is incomplete. As I would come to learn when a teenage family member of mine was murdered, even within the progressive embrace of cities like San Francisco, a stark contrast between the rhetoric of a fair trial and the stark reality of juvenile justice persists. Rather than seeking to pro vide solutions for the problem of juvenile crime, this talk lays bare the tensions and societal contradictions this phenomenon creates. About Profe ssor Ralph:Laurence Ralph is a professor, writer and filmmaker. His work explores how police abuse, mass incarceration, and the drug trade make i njury and premature death seem natural for people of color. His first book , Renegade Dreams (University of Chicago Press, 2014), received the C. Wright Mills Award and the J.I. Staley Prize. His second book, The Tortur e Letters (University of Chicago Press, 2020), explores a decades-long s candal in which hundreds of Black men were tortured in police custody. The Torture Letters is also the name of his award-winning, animated short fi lm, which is featured in The New York Times Op-Doc series. Laurence’s wor k has been featured in The Paris Review, The New York Times, The New Yor k Review of Books, The Nation, The Chicago Review of Books, Boston Revi ew and Literary Hub, to name a few. His lates book SITO: An American teen ager and the City that Failed Him was released February 20 by Grand Centra l Publishing.Laurence has held tenured appointments in the African & Afric an American studies and anthropology departments at Harvard. He is current ly a professor of anthropology at Princeton University. Ralph has been awa rded many fellowships for his work, some of which include the Guggenheim  and Carnegie Fellowships, as well as grants from the National Science Fo undation, the Wenner Gren Foundation, and the National Research Council of the National Academies. He is a member of the Institute for Advanced St udy, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, a fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and an elected member of t he American Academy of Arts & Sciences.\nContact Information:: Katharine B ell, cdts.admin@utoronto.ca \n\nContact Information: \n Centre for Diaspo ra & Transnational Studies cdts.admin@utoronto.ca Centre for Diaspora & Tr ansnational Studies \n\nSponsors \nCentre for Diaspora & Transnational Stu dies \n7 Hart House Circle \n\nCategories \n Lecture \n\nAudiences \n All DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T163000 LAST-MODIFIED:20240221T163949Z LOCATION:7 Hart House Circle SUMMARY:Grief, Accountability, and Youth Incarceration URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/events/grief-accountability -and-youth-incarceration END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR