Race and National Security Book Launch and Conference

In Race and National Security, leading experts challenge conventional interpretations of national security by illuminating the underpinning of White supremacy in our social consciousness. The volume centers the experience of those who have long been on the receiving end of racialized state violence. It finds that re-envisioning national security requires more than just reducing the size and scope of the security state. Race and National Security invites us to radically reimagine a world where the security state does not keep Black, Brown, and other marginalized peoples subordinated through threats of and actual incarceration, violence, torture, and death. Speakers will challenge national security orthodoxy and disrupts accepted truths. This conversation will bring together in one conference domestic, transnational, and comparative and international law perspectives on racial justice and national security.

The conference is cosponsored by the Gibson-Banks Center for Race and the Law. The conference schedule is:

9:00 – 9:30 am

Breakfast

9:30 – 10:00 am

Introduction & Welcome

Michael Pinard, University of Maryland School of Law

Ryan Goodman, New York University School of Law

Matiangai V.S. Sirleaf, University of Maryland School of Law

10:00-11:15 am

Why Race & National Security?

Interlocutors:

James Thuo Gathii, Loyola University Chicago School of Law

Michael Pinard, University of Maryland School of Law

Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Temple University School of Law

Matiangai V.S. Sirleaf, University of Maryland School of Law

11:30 - 1:00 pm

Race & its Effects on National and Transnational Security (Hybrid)

Interlocutors:

Chaz Arnett, University of Maryland School of Law

E. Tendayi Achiume, University of California Los Angeles School of Law and 2023 MacArthur Fellow

Monica C. Bell, Yale Law School

Shirin Sinnar, Stanford Law School

Maryam Jamshidi, University of Colorado Law School

Catherine Powell, Fordham University School of Law

Aziz Rana, Boston College Law School

1:00 to 2:00 pm

Lunch and Museum self-guided tour

2:00 pm – 3:15 pm

Comparative and International Perspectives on Race & National Security

Interlocutors:

Adelle Blackett, McGill University

Peter Danchin, University of Maryland School of Law

Yuvraj Joshi, Brooklyn Law School

Rachel López, Drexel University Kline School of Law

3:30 - 4:00 pm

Closing Remarks

4 :00 - 5:00pm

B ook Signing

The closest parking is at 1401 Thames Street, Baltimore.

P lease register if you are planning to attend.

I f you have any questions, please email ggirguis@law.umaryland.edu