The UNSW Centre for Crime, Law & Justice and the Australian Human Rights Institute invite you to an event on 'Human Rights and Abolitionism', to be held in hybrid format in the Law & Justice Building (level two staff common room) and online via Zoom.
Human rights and criminal justice advocates have increasingly called for the radical rethinking and abolition of traditional criminal punishment and carceral systems. This event will bring domestic and international experts on criminal justice and human rights together to discuss the “what?”, the “why?”, and the “how?” of abolitionism in a human rights context.
Our headliner is Tina McPhee, a lived experience criminologist. She is a formerly incarcerated abolitionist and #languagematters campaigner. She will speak about her work, in a lecture titled "On whose terms? An abolitionist’s guide to avoiding tokenism and exploitation of people with lived prison experience".
Tina’s lecture will be followed by a conversation between Tina, Lukas Carey (UNSW), Karen Engle (University of Texas) and Andrew Brooks/Astrid Lorange (UNSW). Lukas will speak to "Education – A better alternative?"; Karen will speak to "Human Rights and Abolition Movements: Resonances and Dissonances"; and Andrew will speak to "Abolitionist Imaginaries: Policing, Crisis, Representation".
Event format:
- 12:00 -1:00pm: 'On whose terms? An abolitionist’s guide to avoiding tokenism and exploitation of people with lived prison experience' presented by Tina McPhee
- 1:00-1:30pm: Light lunch and refreshments
- 1:30-3:00pm: Panel discussion
Please indicate on checkout whether you would like to attend the entire workshop or just Tina McPhee's lecture, as well as whether you'll be attending in-person or virtually. For those attending in-person, a light lunch will be served, so please also record any dietary requirements on your order form.