Conferences & Events
2020
International Carceral Geography Conference Brussels, Belgium, 14th-15th December
Anna* and Ben: Top-bunk, bottom-bunk - the geographies of cell sharing
Opening Conference of the Centre for Criminological Research, University of Alberta, Canada, 17th-19th November
Ben and Alice: 'Tightness', Recognition and Penal Power
ICPA Online Learning Academy on Innovative Models of Offender Management and Intervention: Creating a Rehabilitative Culture, 2nd November
Ben: Intervention, Support and Rehabilitative Cultures
Kristian:
Nordic punishment at a crossroads? Oslo, Norway 11th-12th March
Kristian: Egalitarianism from within: Hierarchy, virtues and pragmatism in prison social life
Ben: Laissez-faire inclusion and intervention in and beyond the prison
2019
Punishment and imprisonment in the Nordic Countries Conference, 13th-14th June
On June 13th-14th, we are hosting a conference at the University of Agder, Norway with the general theme ‘Punishment and imprisonment in the Nordic countries’. Researchers with expertise on prisons and punishment in the Nordic countries will present their analysis while our team will be discussing the emerging findings from our comparative study of penal policy-making and prisoner experiences in England & Wales and Norway. Information about how to attend please click here.
Strafferetskonferencen Loen, Norway, 1st-2nd April
Julie and Kristian: Mellom inklusjon og eksklusjon. Seksuallovbruddsdømtes soningserfaringer
King’s College Cambridge Foundation Lunch, 16th of March 2019
Julie and Anna: Penal policymaking and the prisoner experience: a comparative analysis
2018
International Carceral Geography Conference, Liverpool, UK, 17-18th December
Anna* and Julie: Power, regulation and gender in women’s prisons in England & Wales and Norway
recording of the presentation here: https://carceralgeography.com/conferences/3rd-international-conference-for-carceral-geography-2018-university-of-liverpool/conference-programme-2018/contrastsandcontradictions/
ESC Conference, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, 29th August-1st September:
Ben: Penal policymaking and the prisoner experience: a comparative analysis
Alice: Lateral tightness and ‘sex offenders’
Julie* and Anna: Power, regulation and gender in women’s prisons in England & Wales and Norway
The Society of Captives Today, University of Leicester, 27th – 28th June
Ben: Beyond ‘Deprivations’: The pains of imprisonment and the prisoner social system
Alice: The society of sex offenders
The Perrie Lectures, 6th June
Alice: Power, shame and social relationships
2nd International Correctional Research Symposium, May 2018
Julie: What is Good Prison Research?
Comparative Penology and Nordic Exceptionalism Conference, 1st-2nd February
We were pleased to hold our first COMPEN conference at the University of Cambridge on the 1st and 2nd of February 2018. You can see the final programme here.
Ben: Penal policymaking and the prisoner experience: a comparative analysis
Alice: Lateral tightness and ‘sex offenders’
Julie and Anna: Power, regulation and gender in women’s prisons in England & Wales and Norway
Kristian: Risk and relational normalisation
This conference was a milestone for the project with its international and comparative focus and also offered the opportunity to meet many other experts in the field.
Inauguration Presentation at King’s College Cambridge, 19th January
Anna and Julie presenting; title: Exploring penal spaces and prisoners’ experiences: comparative research in the UK and Norway
KRUS conference, Oslo
Alice presented: Shame and moral communication in prisons for men convicted of sex offences
Deep-end Confinement Symposium
In January 2018, we hosted a one-day symposium about ‘deep-end confinement’, with papers by Georgina Vince and Kirsty Tempest (HMPPS), Ben Crewe (University of Cambridge), Richard Sparks University of Edinburgh) and Alison Liebling (University of Cambridge), and Kimmett Edgar (Prison Reform Trust). The aim of the day was to generate dialogue between practitioners and academics working within this field, and to provide a platform for further engagement.
2017
Global Prisons Research Network Roundtable Meeting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2nd-3rd November
Julie: Connecting Urban and Prison Ethnographies: Security and Confinement Beyond the Limitations of Site
Seminar at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, Oslo University, Norway, 1st November
Ben: Penal policymaking and the prisoner experience: a comparative analysis
Anna: ‘The pains of entry’ A comparative analysis of prisoners’ experiences of entering custody in England & Wales and Norway
Kristian: ‘Discovering’ (the lack of) risk-talk
PRC conference Cambridge, 19th - 20th October
Julie and Kristian: Ways of comparing: ‘Discovering’ (the lack of) risk-talk
KRUS conference, Oslo, 11th - 12th October
Kristian and Julie: Penal policymaking and the prisoner experience: a comparative analysis
European Society of Criminology Conference, Cardiff University, Cardiff UK, 13th - 14th September
Ben: Solitary, supermax and deep-end imprisonment
Kristian, Julie, Anna and Alice: The ‘imprisonment queue’ in Norway: Exploring the pains of waiting to do time. (abstract here).
Kristian, Anna and Julie: The pains of entry’: A comparative analysis of prisoners. (abstract here).
Alice: Orientations towards women among male prisoners convicted of sex offences (abstract here).
Rethinking Prisons Research Conference, University of Leicester, 13th-14th June
Ben: The prison as a reinventive institution
BASIS Seminar, Oslo, Norway, 1st June
Julie: ’Seksuallovbruddsdømtes fengselserfaringer – en etnografisk studie’
Annual American Association of Geographers International Conference, Boston, USA, 5th-9th April
Anna: Dialogues across carceral space: comparative research and the case of penal exceptionalism in a session on Global Carceral Geographies (abstract here).
Sykes Conference, Cambridge
Alice: The moral pains of imprisonment and the deprivation of heterosexual relationships
2016
International Conference for Carceral Geography, Birmingham, UK, 13th December
Anna and Julie: Confinement, Crossings and Conditions for prisoners in the UK and Norway: comparative research on penal exceptionalism
You can listen to their presentation here.