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Monday, September 12
Welcome & Introductions

Makau Mutua, Dean and SUNY Distinguished Professor and Floyd H. and Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar

PANEL
Looking Back: The Attica Uprising and Aftermath

Malcolm Bell, Former Special Assistant Attorney General (NYS Attica Investigation)

Arthur O. Eve, Former NYS Assemblyman & Negotiator/Observer

Elizabeth Gaynes, Executive Director, Osborne Association

Melvin Marshall, 1971 Attica Inmate

Dee Quinn Miller, Director, Forgotten Victims of Attica

Michael Smith, Attica CO in 1971 and Hostage

Teresa A. Miller, Professor of Law, University at Buffalo (moderator)

PANEL
Prisons, Empowerment, and Resistance

Joshua Page, Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota

Robert Clark, Professor of Anthropology, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania

Flores Forbes, Associate VP, Strategic Policy and Program Implementation, Columbia University

Doran Larson, Professor of English, Hamilton College

Devonya Havis, Professor of Philosophy, Canisius College (moderator)

Media Panel
Attica, Prisons & the Media

Gary Craig, Investigative Reporter for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

Theresa Lynch, Historian, University of New Hampshire Manchester

Teresa Miller, Professor of Law, UB Law School
      (Watch Miller's "4 Myths About Attica")

Theodore Kirkland, Former NYS Parole Commissioner

Tuesday, September 13
PANEL
Prison Violence in Feminist Perspective: Gender, Sexuality, and Race

Regina Kunzel, Professor of History, University of Minnesota

Anthony Farley, James Campbell Matthews Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence, Albany Law School

Gabrielle Prisco, Director of Juvenile Justice Project, Correctional Association of New York

Stephanie L. Phillips, Professor of Law, University at Buffalo (moderator)

PANEL
Past Demands, Current Concerns: How Far Have We Come?

Jack Beck, Director, Prison Visiting Project, Correctional Association of New York

Jim Conway, Retired Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility (2003-2010)

Chuck Culhane, Erie County Prisoners' Rights Coalition

Karen Murtagh-Monks, Executive Director, Prisoners Legal Services of New York

Nan Haynes, Lecturer in Law, UB Law School, and Member, Erie County Community Corrections Advisory Board (moderator)

PANEL
Moving Forward: Prison Reform in an Era of Mass Incarceration and Fiscal Crisis

Thomas Terrizzi, prison litigation practitioner (moderator)

Jeffrion L. Aubry, NY State Assemblyman, 35th A.D. of Queens County (2002-present)

Soffiyah Elijah, Executive Director, Correctional Association of New York

Anthony P. Farley, James Campbell Matthews Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence, Albany Law School

Michael Mushlin, Professor of Law, Pace University Law School

KEYNOTE and Commentary

Brian Fischer, Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision, Keynote Speaker

Soffiyah Elijah, Commentator