[Poscgrad] Upcoming Event: Hunger, Meditation, Incarceration (November 1, 2023, 10:30 am-noon)

[Farah Godrej]

The Health Humanities & Disability Justice Initiative at the 
University of California, Riverside
Invites you to the following virtual event 
Hunger, Meditation, Incarceration
Farah Godrej and Dana Simmons in Conversation
Wednesday, November 1, 2023, 10:30 am-noon
 TO REGISTER CLICK HERE <https://events.ucr.edu/event/hunger_meditation_incarceration>
 
The Event: A conversation about carceral ‘nutrition’ and carceral ‘wellness’, in which terms meant to denote sustenance, nourishment and health are repurposed by the mass incarceration complex as forms of punishment and behavior control. This conversation will consider the possibilities of building anti-carceral movements through practices of nourishment (such as mutual aid and hunger striking) and liberatory forms of yoga and meditation. It will also consider questions, concerns, and worries about how to confront carcerality as scholars and as responsible humans.
 
Farah Godrej <https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/godrej> is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside. Her areas of research and teaching include Indian political thought, Gandhi’s political thought, cosmopolitanism, globalization and comparative political theory.  She also studies contemporary issues such as environmental justice, food politics and mass incarceration. Her research appears in journals such as Political Theory, Political Research Quarterly, Theory & Event, The Review of Politics, and Polity, and she is the author of Cosmopolitan Political Thought: Method, Practice, Discipline (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). Her new book Freedom Inside? Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/freedom-inside-9780190070090?cc=us&lang=en&> (Oxford University Press, 2022) is the winner of the 2023 Charles Taylor Book Award from the American Political Science Association, and received honorable mentions for the 2023 American Association of Publishers (AAP) PROSE award for scholarly excellence and the 2023 Lee Ann Fujii Award for Innovation in the Interpretive Study of Political Violence from the American Political Science Association.
 
Dana Simmons <https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/danasim>, a historian of science and technology, is Acting Chair of the Department of Society, Environment, and Health Equity at the University of California, Riverside. Her research interests include hunger, nutrition, the human sciences, feminist theory and technopolitics. Her book, Vital Minimum: Need, Science and Politics in Modern France, <https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/V/bo20069271.html> traces the history of the concept of the "vital minimum"--the living wage, a measure of physical and social needs. Dana’s essays appear in books and journals such as Engaging STS, Journal of Modern History, Representations, and Osiris. Her current book project, upon which this conversation draws, is about an enduring pattern in United States history: the production of hunger. On multiple occasions, from the nineteenth through the twentieth century, state agents and private (settler) citizens colluded in large-scale campaigns of ethnic cleansing and political control by deprivation. Food sources were destroyed, blocked, denied, altered or substituted in order to force people to obey, move, clear lands, accede to white power, and make way for new regimes of land and labor. Hunger served as an instrument to consolidate the modern United States. Central to this conversation will be a chapter of that book in progress (Fight, Don’t Starve: Hunger Made in U.S.A) entitled, “Carceral Hunger.”

This event is co-sponsored by UCR’s Decolonizing Humanism(?) Initiative <https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/decolonizinghumanism/> at the Center for Ideas and Society.
Carla Mazzio, Fuson Wang and Matthew King
C0-Directors, UCR's Health Humanities and Disability Justice (HHDJ) Initiative <https://hhdj.ucr.edu/>

"We at UCR would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our
responsibility to the original and current caretakers of this land, water,
and air: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of
their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. Today this
meeting place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world,
including UCR faculty, students, and staff, and we are grateful to have the
opportunity to live and work on these homelands."
Farah Godrej <https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/farahgodrej>
Professor
Department of Political Science
University of California, Riverside 
(she/her/hers)

Author of Freedom Inside? Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/freedom-inside-9780190070090?cc=us&lang=en&> (Oxford University Press, 2022), winner of the 2023 Charles Taylor Book Award <https://connect.apsanet.org/interpretationandmethod/the-charles-taylor-book-award/>; honorable mentions for 2023 Association of American Publishers PROSE Award <https://publishers.org/news/association-of-american-publishers-announces-finalists-and-category-winners-for-2023-prose-awards/> and 2023  <https://connect.apsanet.org/interpretationandmethod/wp-content/uploads/sites/60/2023/08/2023-LAF-BookAward-HonMention-Citation.pdf>Lee Ann Fujii Award for Innovation in the Interpretive Study of Political Violence <https://connect.apsanet.org/interpretationandmethod/lee-ann-fujii-award-for-innovation-in-the-interpretive-study-of-political-violence/>

Fred Dallmayr: Critical Phenomenology, Cross-cultural Theory, Cosmopolitanism  <https://www.routledge.com/Fred-Dallmayr-Critical-Phenomenology-Cross-cultural-Theory-Cosmopolitanism/Godrej/p/book/9781138955936>(Routledge, 2017)

Cosmopolitan Political Thought: Method, Practice, Discipline <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/cosmopolitan-political-thought-9780199782079?lang=en&cc=us> (Oxford University Press, 2011) 

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