Conference Papers 2011

CONFERNCE PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS

WEDNESDAY 10TH AUGUST 2011
9.15AM
KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
Debbie Kilroy, Sisters Inside
Kim Pate, Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies
Prof Angela Davis, Activist & Writer
 
11.30AM  
INDIGENOUS KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
Antoinette Braybrook, Aboriginal Domestic & Family Violence Legal Service
ARRIVING SOON
Dixie Link-Gordan, Mudgin-Gal Aboriginal Corporation Women's Centre
Rhonda Dixon-Grovenor, Masters in Aboriginal Studies (Social and Emotional Weelbeing
 
THURSDAY 11TH AUGUST 2011
9.00AM
KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
Assoc Prof Gina Dent, University California Santa Cruz
Dr Bree Carlton, Monah University
Gender Responsive (In)Justice: The Limits of 'Women-Centred' Reform and the Case for Abolition
Erica Meiners, St. Leonard's Adult High School
ARRIVING SOON
 
2.00PM  
Mental Health, Women & Violence Workshop
Jenny Speed, D2DL, Sisters Inside
Mental Illness, Rights and Imprisonment
ARRIVING SOON
Monica Kessler, Sexual Assault Support and Prevention Program, Sisters Inside
Sexual assault counselling inside a high security prison
ARRIVING SOON
 
Pre & Post Imprisonment Workshop
Indira Rana, Prisoners Assistance Nepal
Enduring More Than Fair Punishment
Melissa Cuminao-Reason, Work Pathways Program, Sisters Inside
Women Exiting Prison Program
Kat Armstrong, Women In Prison Advocacy Network
Advocating for Our Women
ARRIVING SOON
 
Decarceration Models
Meg Perkins, The Bridge Network
The Brain is not Mad or Bad: advances in neuroscience have given us clear alternatives to punishment as a behaviour modification technique.
Annie Nash, Flat Out
How to be a wolf in sheeps clothing: working in and around the non profit industrial complex to defeat the prison industrial complex
Margaret Fitzpatrick & Ann Marie Tilley, Special Circumstances Court, Sisters Inside
Making Prison Even More Obsolete!
Debbie Kilroy, Supreme Court Bail Program, Sisters Inside
 
FRIDAY 12TH AUGUST 2011
9.30AM
KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
Cassandra Shaylor, Critical Resistance USA
ARRIVING SOON
Dr Eileen Baldry, University of NSW
ARRIVING SOON
Paula Abood, community cultural development worker, writer and educator.
ARRIVING SOON
   
11.30AM  
Research & Observation
Anastasia Chamberlen, Kings College London
'My Body's a Cage': Food as punishment and resistance in women's prisons
ARRIVING SOON
Melanie Carrington, York University, Canada
Can anyone hear me? The silence is deafening: The use of segregation with criminalized women.
ARRIVING SOON
Meg Perkins, University of Queensland Graduation School
Reducing indigenous incarceration rates: Studying protective factors in the Cook Islands
   
 
Women & Children
Jacinta O'Keefe, PEEK Program, Sisters Inside
A Parenting Prison: Working with Mother's
Karina Bell & Mere Dewes, BOWS Program, Sisters Inside
Support & Advocacy For Women - Stages of BOWS Program
Christine Robinson & Thea Deakin, Wirringa Baiya Aboriginal Women's Legal Centre, Wirringa Baiya Aboriginal Women's Legal Centre
Telling the story from inside on the outside
ARRIVING SOON
 
Young People Workshop
Katherine McFarlane, Charles Sturt University
Stolen Generations, Forgotten Australians, Care and Crime: Manufacturing delinquents.
Yvonne Chelepy & Joe Kilroy, Reconnect Program, Sisters Inside
Undoing the Trauma- Walking the Talk with young people @ Sisters Inside

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