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Events-at-a-Glance
Aerial photo of UB North Campus, December 2021. Lockwood LIbrary and Clemens Hall are centered. Photographer: Douglas Levere.
The Baldy Center sponsors and co-sponsors many events each year that enliven the dialogue about law and society in the University. Current events are planned in accordance with UB's developing COVID-19 related protocols.
Events that list the room location are held in-person. Advance registration is not required to attend in-person events on campus.
Events are also accessible online, concurrently, via Zoom. Please use the registration link for each event of interest. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the event online via Zoom.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Dates subject to change.
SUMMER 2022
JUNE 9 & 10, 2022 — HYBRID WORKSHOP
Exploring The Law and Political Economy Difference
Organizer: Martha T. McCluskey, in collaboration with the Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and Law (APPEAL)
Contact: law-baldy-lpe@buffalo.edu
FALL 2022
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
12:30 p.m.
Ewa Górska, PhD Adjunct, Assistant Professor
Future Law Lab, Wydział Prawa
Faculty of Law and Administration
Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Jagiellonian University
Exploring Islamophobia and Islam in Poland through law. Analysis of court decisions in cases involving Muslims in Poland
What can we learn from court rulings about the minority community, social perceptions of religion and culture, stereotypes or discrimination? Especially investigating such judgments in the case of an (almost) invisible minority? This project consists of two interconnected parts and fills the gaps in research on the perception of Islam in Polish society and law, as well as hate crimes against Muslims in Poland.
The first part is an analysis of Polish hegemonic perceptions of Islam expressed in a particular context and form (court rulings) and pronounced by a particular group (professional judges). The research is based on a content analysis of Polish court judgments available online in which Islam or being Muslim was mentioned as a circumstance of the case. The focus is on identifying the types of cases that involve Muslims or mention Islam, as well as the narratives of othering and cultural identity used in the documents.
The second part of the research focuses on a single type of cases involving Muslims: bias-motivated crimes. Although the Muslim community in Poland is small (and very diverse), according to surveys, Muslims and Arabs are the most unpopular groups in Poland. Negative attitudes and xenophobic nationalism lead to anti-Muslim hate crimes, however they are underreported (studies suggest only 5% of bias-motivated crimes in Poland are reported) and not analyzed in detail. This part of the research is based on quantitative and qualitative analysis of court documents retrieved from courts in the largest Polish cities. The in-depth study of those crimes that were reported and prosecuted provides an important insight into the characteristics of hate crimes in Poland, anti-Muslim crimes, as well as the adjudication of such cases.
Additional events forthcoming.
PAST EVENTS
SPRING 2022
FEBRUARY 18, 2022 — DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER
12:00pm ET; 509 O’Brian Hall and via Zoom.
Nicole Fox (California State University Sacramento)
After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda
Co-sponsored with Department of Sociology
MARCH 10, 2022 — CO-SPONSORED SPEAKER
4:00pm ET; 509 O’Brian Hall and via Zoom.
HUMANITIES INSTITUTE
Mical Raz, PhD, “Fixing Parents or Fixing Poverty? Lessons from Child Welfare Policy History”
MARCH 11, 2022 — DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER
12:30pm ET; 509 O’Brian Hall and via Zoom.
Anna Lvovsky (Harvard Law School)
The Double Lives of Police Professionalism
APRIL 1, 2022 — DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER
12:30pm ET; 509 O’Brian Hall and via Zoom.
Michael J. Nelson (Pennsylvania State University)
The Elevator Effect: Contact and Collegiality in the American Judiciary
Co-sponsored by UB Department of Political Science
APRIL 7, 2022 — CO-SPONSORED EVENT
Alison Des Forges Annual Symposium
9:00am to 4:00pm ET; 10 Capen Hall and via Zoom.
Today's Socialism and Human Rights
Contact: dussourd@buffalo.edu
APRIL 15, 2022 — DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER
12:30pm ET; Virtual (only) via Zoom.
Nate Holdren (Drake University)
Workplace injury, social murder, and law
APRIL 22 and 23, 2022 — CONFERENCE WEBINAR
Looking Back, Moving Forward:
Law, Policy and Environmental Justice
Co-organizer: Christopher Mele; co-sponsored by Swarthmore College. Contact: BaldyCenter@buffalo.edu
APRIL 22, 2022 — CO-SPONSORED SPEAKER
280 Park Hal, 11:00am to 12:30pm
Lenni Bensen (New York Law School)
Understanding Children Who Migrate Alone: U.S. Law and Policy
APRIL 26, 2022 — CO-SPONSORED SPEAKER
7 Capen Hall, 3:00pm to 4:30pm and via Zoom
David Hernández (Mount Holyoke College)
Whiplashed: Refugees, Detention and the "Trump Era"
APRIL 29 and 30, 2022 — CO-SPONSORED EVENT
Rustgi Undergraduate Conference on South Asia
MAY 10, 2022 — CO-SPONSORED EVENT
1:00 to 4:00pm ET; 509 O’Brian Hall and via Zoom
DSSN Symposium: Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Digital Archives
FALL 2021
OCTOBER 25, 2021 — CO-SPONSORED SPEAKER
Ehlimana Memisevic (Fulbright Scholar, Vanderbilt University)
Co-sponsored by the Institute for Sustainable Global Engagement (ISGE), School of Social Work.
NOVEMBER 3, 2021 — CO-SPONSORED SPEAKER
WANG FENG (UC Irvine)
Wednesday, 12:00 p.m.
509 O’Brian Hall Conference Center, UB North Campus
The event is co-sponsored UB Confucius Institute, The Baldy Center, and CAS Department of Sociology
NOVEMBER 11 & 12, 2021 — WORKSHOP
Global Glyphosate: New Challenges in Regulating Pervasive Chemicals in the Anthropocene
Organized by Marion Werner, UB Associate Professor of Geography.
DECEMBER 3, 2021, 12:00 p.m. (noon)
BOOK MANUSCRIPT WORKSHOP (VIRTUAL)
Moral Debt in Modern America, Daniel Platt, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies at the University of Illinois Springfield, Baldy Center Postdoctoral Fellow in Interdisciplinary Legal Studies 2019-2021.
SUMMER 2021
JUNE 25, 2021 — ONLINE WORKSHOP
Marx, Law, and the Administrative State
Thursday, Friday, Saturday (time tba)
Organized by Matthew Dimick, Professor, UB School of Law
SPRING 2021
APRIL 14, 15, 16, 2021 — VIRTUAL WORKSHOP
Medical Posthumanities: Governing Health Beyond the Human
Related podcast is here.
APRIL 30, 2021 — VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM
Alison Des Forges International Virtual Symposium
COVID-19: Human Rights and International Cooperation
Event details are here.
Related podcast is here.
SERIOUS FUN: A CONFERENCE WITH SCHLEGEL AND ON HIS WORKS
Organizer: David A. Westbrook, dwestbro@buffalo.edu
Related content: Buffalo Law Review, Vol. 60, Issue 1 — Serious Fun: A conference with & around Schlegel!
MARCH 5, 2021 — ONLINE BOOK TALK
Yesterday's Monsters, The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole by Hadar Aviram
Event co-sponsored by UB Department of Sociology.
MARCH 11, 2021 — ONLINE BOOK TALK
From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century book talk by co-authors William Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen
Sponsored by UB Center for Diversity Innovation.
Co-sponsored by The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, and UB Office of Inclusive Excellence.