Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Conference
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"A History of Penal Regimes in Global Perspective, 1800-2014"
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975), the influential book that first opened a new line of inquiry into the study of the prison, the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History is planning a conference to spark a global conversation among researchers in the social sciences and humanities at work on the history of distinctive penal regimes. We are hosting over 25 speakers from all over the world - the complete program is available at http://wigh.wcfia.harvard.edu/content/conference-history-penal-regimes-….
Sponsored by the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History, with support from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; the Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University; the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University; the Harvard University Asia Center; and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University.