Conversation & Screening

Plotting Abolition

Fri, Feb 28, 2025

4:00 PM–6:00 PM

Rooms C204/205
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave, NYC.
Free and open to all.

Please join us for “Plotting Abolition” featuring a film screening of Calls From Home followed by a discussion of multi-scalar abolitionist struggles to close prisons and jails, stop the construction of cop cities, and build life-affirming infrastructures from Letcher County, Kentucky to New York City. Join the director of Calls from Home Sylvia Ryerson (Building Community Not Prisons Coalition) who will be in conversation with Craig Gilmore (California Prison Moratorium Project), Sarah Haley (author of No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity), and Judah Schept (Critical Resistance Central Appalachia and author of Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia). The event is organized and will be moderated by Lucien Baskin (CUNY Graduate Center).

For more information about Building Community Not Prisons Coalition, visit their website at https://www.buildingcommunitynotprisons.com

This event is free and open to the public, no registration necessary.

The event is presented and co-sponsored by Doctoral and Graduate Students’ Council (DGSC); Center for the Humanities; Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, and the Urban Education Department.