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JUSTICE STUDIES ASSOCIATION 2018 June 6-9

Flagstaff, Arizona

Northern Arizona University

Theme:

“Sanctuary”

REDUCED REGISTRATION COST BEFORE May 1, 2018.

Conference Organizer

Rebecca Maniglia, Northern Arizona University

Conference Program Committee

Justin Smith, Central Michigan University

Maria De La Torre, Northeastern Illinois University

Brandi Vigil, Loyola University

Sponsor:

Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, NAU

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Opening Reception Entertainment

Rev. John Fife

Opening Speaker

Reverend John Fife is a retired Presbyterian minister, human rights advocate and a founding

patriarch of the Sanctuary Movement. Between 1982-92, some 15,000 Central Americans came

through his church, Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson, Ariz., seeking safe harbor or assistance

after fleeing civil war and death squads in their home countries. His church’s action helped spawn a

movement of 560 congregations that aided Central American refugees and immigrants with immediate

The James Jones family has been dancing in the powwow

circle for more than 15 years. They enjoy dancing, because it

brings a sense of happiness, comfort, and spiritual support to

them and those around them. They are happy to be included

and hope you enjoy the stories and the dancing.

Ballet Folklorico de Colores of Flagstaff is a

non-profit organization dedicated to

teaching traditional Mexican folk dance.

They offer classes for all levels and all ages

and perform frequently throughout the state.

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support, moving them to safer places, in some cases Canada. By the mid-1980s, the federal government

sent spies into his church to gather evidence against Fife’s efforts, and in 1986 he was convicted with

seven others on alien-smuggling charges. He served a five-year probation sentence, a turn of events

that never interrupted his work. In a new century of immigration controversy, Fife helped start the

Samaritan Patrol along the Mexico-Arizona border in 2002. It aims to relieve the suffering of migrants

by offering them food and water and advocating for a more humane border policy. Samaritan Patrol is

now part of a larger border-monitoring organization, No More Deaths, for which Fife is a co-founder.

Fife is also an honorary board member of BorderLinks, which focuses on border education and

globalization issues.

Klee Benally

Chomsky Award Recipient

Klee Benally (Dine’) has been a media activist for more than 10 years, producing short documentaries

and offering strategic consultations and planning for Indigenous media campaigns. He currently is

project coordinator of Indigenous Action Media (www.indigenousaction.org) and volunteers

with Protect the Peaks and Taala Hooghan Infoshop. In 2004, Klee helped start Outta Your Backpack

Media (www.oybm.org), an Indigenous youth empowerment project that focuses on media literacy and

media justice for Indigenous communities. He has also been an entertainer with the Native American

Music Award winning rock group Blackfire (www.blackfire.net) and the internationally acclaimed

traditional dance group, The Jones Benally Family. Klee directed and edited “The Snowbowl Effect”, a

feature documentary which has been screened both nationally and internationally.

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Film Screening and Discussion with Cast

Power Lines

Written and Directed by Klee Benally

Repeal Coalition

Activist Award Recipient

The Arizona Repeal Coalition is an organization committed to repealing the over 60 anti-immigrant laws and bills that have been passed or considered by Arizona politicians. We demand the repeal of all laws—federal, state, and local—that degrade and discriminate against undocumented individuals and that deny U.S. citizens their lawful rights. We demand that all human beings-with papers or without-be guaranteed access to work, housing, health care, education, legal protection, and other public benefits, as well as the right to organize. Our strategy is to help build a grass roots social movement that can repeal these laws, change the terms of the national debate on immigration, and expand the freedom of all people-documented and undocumented.

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Luis Fernandez

Keynote Speaker

Luis A. Fernandez is a Professor in the CCJ Department at NAU. He received his PhD from the School of Justice Studies & Social Inquiry at Arizona State. His teaching and research focus on social control, social movements, and globalization in late modernity, and he is active in many community-based efforts related to immigration and policing. He is well-known across campus & the region for his engaged, rigorous, and collaborative approach to teaching and community work. He is the author and editor of Policing Dissent: Social Control and the Anti-Globalization Movement, Contemporary Anarchist Studies, and Shutting Down the Streets. His work has also been in Social Justice, Contemporary Political Theory, Critical Criminology, Qualitative Sociology among others. His most recent research focuses on the alt-right and the emergence of neo-fascism. He is currently serving as the President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.

Unintended Victims Art Show Project Director: Rebecca Maniglia

Art Show Coordinator: Brooke Walker

This small art show features original artwork by children of incarcerated parents (CIP) along with

educational information and quotes from CIPs in Northern Arizona. It is part of an educational effort

coordinated by Brooke Walker, a senior at NAU, as part of the Unintended Victims Project:

Supporting Families Affected by Incarceration.

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Conference locations

The Opening Reception, the Thursday evening film screening and the Friday night

banquet and keynote will be held at the Campus Ministry Center on the NAU

campus, 500 West Riordan, behind Cline Library.

Conference Sessions on Thursday and Friday as well as the Chomsky Award

luncheon will be held at the Gathering Room in the Native American Conference

Center at NAU, 318 West McCreary Drive, right across from the Cline library and

the Student Union.

https://nau.edu/na-cultural-center/welcome/

Conference Sessions on Saturday will be held in Room 119 in the Communications

Building, right next to the Native American Conference Center at NAU.

Residence Hall Lodging

Calderon Hall

1200 South Knowles

Flagstaff, AZ 86004

https://nau.edu/uploadedFiles/Academic/COE/Ed_Specialties/Calderon%20Hall.pdf

Meals

The Wednesday evening reception will be catered at the Campus Ministry Center by Las

Gorditas and Arlana Murphy Native American Catering, both of Flagstaff.

Continental breakfast & lunch will be catered into the Gathering Room on Thursday and

Friday. A continental breakfast and a to-go lunch will be catering in the Communication

Building on Saturday.

The Friday banquet will be catering at the Campus Ministry Center by Simply Delicious.

Note: All presenters must register for the conference

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6 (Campus Ministry Center)

5:30-7:30 Opening Reception/Conference Registration

This opening reception will feature storytelling, Native American dancing by the James Jones family,

Mexican traditional dancing by Ballet Forklorico de Colores as well as Mexican and Native American

food. It is an opportunity to get to know one another and be welcomed to Flagstaff. Conference

registration will also be available.

THURSDAY, JUNE 7 (Gathering Room, Native American Conference Center)

8:00 am Registration and Breakfast

8:30 am Welcoming and Opening Prayer

Rebecca Maniglia, Conference Organizer

Tony Joe, Dine’ Healer, Flagstaff Medical Center

Justin Smith, JSA President

9:00-10:15 Opening Session: Sanctuary: Definitions and Roots

Rev. John Fife, Co-Founder No More Deaths

Pastor Emeritus, Southside Presbyterian Church, Tucson, AZ

10:15 Break

10:30-11:45 Interactive Session: Honoring Indigenous Peacemaking

Rose Elizondo, Soros Justice Fellow, Navajo Star School

12-1:30 Native American Buffet Lunch

Chomsky Award Presentation to Klee Benally, Dine’ Activist

1:45-3:15 Panel One: Broad Understandings of Sanctuary (Chair: Justin Smith)

Sanctuary as Commons

Mara Pfeffer, Flagstaff Community Coalition

“It’s Not About Bathrooms”: Sanctuary Cities and the Trans Community

April Coan, Nova Southeast University

The Inverted Dynamics of Sanctuary and the Plight of Homelessness

T.Y. Okoson, Northeastern Illinois University

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Sanctuary Protection On Campus for Undocumented Students

Maria De La Torre, Northeastern Illinois University

3:30-5:00 Panel Two: 150 Years After Fort Sumner: Mass Incarceration, Resilience and

Healing (Chair: Brandi Vigil)

Cora Maxx-Phillips (Dine’)

Darrell Marks (Dine’), Academic Advisor\Indigenous Community Activist

Makaius Marks (Dine’), High School Student and Indigenous Community Advocate

Thomas Walker (Dine’), Navajo Peacemaker

Rose Elizondo (Mestiza), Navajo Star School or Soros Justice Fellow

Hilary Giovale (9th generation American settler), Filmmaker and Cultural Liaison

6:30-8:30 Film Screening: Power Lines (Written and Directed by Klee Benally)

Campus Ministry Center, NAU

Power Lines is a coming of age story about a young Dine’ poet who runs away and finds home. Halee is

a 16-year-old Dine’ relocation refugee who uses poetry to escape from her painful past and present.

When her abusive father crosses a line, her best friend helps her run away. Their journey to Halee’s

homeland takes a turn when she discovers her father has been hiding a secret that has the power to

change her life forever. We will screen the film and have a discussion with the filmmaker and the cast.

FRIDAY, JUNE 8 (Gathering Room, Native American Conference Center)

8:00 am Breakfast

8:30-10:00 Panel Three: Race, Gender and Incarceration (Chair: Robert Grantham)

Mass Incarceration of Women: The Untold Story

Cassandra Little, Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada

Court-Mandated Treatment of Female Offenders of Intimate Partner Violence in

Colorado: A Participatory Observation

Desire’ JM Anastacia-Cartwright, Metropolitan State University of Denver

Constantly Colonizing: The Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Borders of Mass

Incarceration

Maureen Whitcomb, Writer and Artist

Warehousing the Dead Bio-Power, Afro Pessimism and the Supermax Prison

Meredith Brown and Virgil Clark

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10:15-11:30 Panel Four: Prisoner Voices (Chair: Emily Gaardner)

“It’s Another Fucking Recipe”: How Formerly Incarcerated People Make Sense of

Moral Reconation Theory

Deirdre Caputo Levine, Idaho State University

Public Narratives of the Injustice Involved: (de) Racializing Logics of Collective

Transformation

Vanessa Lynn, Stonybrook University

Paws for a Cause in Prison: Evaluating Dog Training Programs

Jacquelyn Doyon-Martin, Grand Valley State University

Ayris Gonzalez, Bethany Christian Services, Grand Rapids

11:45-12:45 LUNCH

Informal Panel Discussion on the JSA Way

Ken Litwin, TY Okoson & Emily Gaardner

1:00-2:00 Panel Five: Reflections of Ethical Research (Chair: Kayla Martensen)

Collaborative Inquiry & Reintegrating Formerly Incarcerated Citizens in Ed

Joni Schwartz and John R. Chaney

The Dilemmas of Researching Reform Based Programs Emily Gaardner and Scott Vollum, University of Minnesota,-Duluth

Formerly Incarcerated and Prison Reform Activism

Justin Smith, Central Michigan University

2:15-3:30 Panel Six: Sanctuary, Borders and Immigration (Chair: Luis Fernandez)

Hospitality in the Yuma Borderland

Kim Curtis, Northern Arizona University

Operation Wetback: A Dark Past, a Grim Future Sharmon Monogan, Georgia Highlands College

Latinas Barred from Sanctuary: A Discussion on the Carceral State & How Latinas

Must Navigate this System of Punishment

Kayla Martensen, University of Illinois at Chicago

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3:45-4:30 Panel Seven: Students and Social Justice

This panel will feature students from Ken Litwin’s Social Justice course as well as

representatives from NAU’s chapter of No Mas Muertes and Flagstaff high school

dreamers.

5:30- 7:30 Activist Award Banquet and Keynote Address

Campus Ministry Center

Repeal Coalition, Activist Award Recipient

Luis Fernandez, Keynote Speaker

SATURDAY, JUNE 9 (Room 119, Communications Building)

8:00 am Breakfast

8:30-9:00 Contemporary Justice Review Meeting

Randall Amster and Kayla Martensen

9:00- 10:30 Panel Eight: Social Control, Governance and Sanctuary (Chair: Justin Smith)

Shelter from the Storm: Inequality, Injustice and Digital Sanctuary

Randall Amster, Georgetown University

De-Stabilizing Impact and Influence of Governance

Robert Grantham, Bridgewater State University

Stavros Papadopoulos, University of Connecticut

Sanctuary and Mindfulness Mediation Nehal Patel, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Plea Bargaining as Social Control Robert Schehr, Northern Arizona University

10:45-11:45 Panel Nine: Sanctuary and Hip Hop (Chair: Brandi Vigil)

Rap as the Door to Sanctuary

Rebecca Maniglia, Northern Arizona University

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Hip Hop, Transformative Justice and Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline

Anthony J. Nocella II, Fort Lewis College

Hip Hop as Sanctuary

Frederick Gooding, Northern Arizona University

11:50 Traditional Prayer as Closing

Tony Joe, Dine’ Healer, Flagstaff Medical Center

12:00 TO-GO LUNCH

12:15-1:15 JSA Board Meeting

All are welcomed and encouraged to attend.

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Transportation from Phoenix International Airport

Arizona Shuttle ($48 each way)

Information at: https://www.arizonashuttle.com/schedules/flagstaff-phoenix/

PARKING

If you are not staying on campus, parking is available in the Union Parking Lot directly across from the

Native American Conference Center. You can pay by credit card at the kiosk.

WHAT TO DO IN FLAGSTAFF:

Flagstaff is full of hiking trials and close to many national and state monuments. For detailed

information on accessing these as well as the Grand Canyon, go to

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g60971-Activities-Flagstaff_Arizona.html

Flagstaff is also a dark city and home to much astronomy. It is also the place where Pluto was

discovered. To explore this side of the city, check out the Lowell Observatory at https://lowell.edu/

If you are interested in low cost or family-oriented activities check out https://www.top-ten-travel-

list.com/blog/activities/51-fun-budget-friendly-things-flagstaff-arizona/

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Justice Studies Association

President (2016 – 2018)

Justin Smith, Ph.D. Central Michigan University

Email: smith61j@cmich.edu

Vice President (2016-2018)

Robert Grantham, Ph.D. Bridgewater State University

Email: robert.grantham@bridgew.edu

Treasurer (2016-2018)

Dan Okada, Ph.D. Sacramento State University

Email: dokada@csus.edu

Communications Director (2016-2018)

Jennifer Hartsfield, Ph.D. Bridgewater State University

Email: jennifer.hartsfield@bridgew.edu

Membership Coordinator

Maria De La Torre, Ph.D. Northeastern Illinois University

Email: m-delatorre@neiu.edu

Immediate Past President (2016-2018)

Jo-Ann Della Giustina, Ph.D., J.D. Bridgewater State University

Email: jdellagiustina@bridgew.edu