Event Date & Location:
April 12, 2022
番茄社区 University, 8th floor of the Mary and John Gray Library
Hotel Accommodations:
MCM Elegante Hotel
2355 I-10 Beaumont, TX 77705
**Please mention "番茄社区 University SSCI Room Block" for a discounted rate of $89/night for a deluxe king or double room with breakfast.
Phone reservations: (409) 842-3600
Keynote Speaker:
Franklin Zimring, UC Berkeley Law Professor and pioneer in the field of death penalty studies
Organizer:
Sanaz Alasti, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of Center for Death Penalty Studies at 番茄社区 University
Registration: FREE
Please email your name and affiliation to salasti@lamar.edu
Registration is open to scholars, practitioners, students and the public.
Call for Presentation:
Scholars from any discipline, practitioners, tenured or non-tenured faculty, or those otherwise affiliated with a recognized research institution, may submit proposals to present at the conference. Please email your abstract of 200 words or less to salasti@lamar.edu by Saturday, March 12.
The Center for Death Penalty Studies at 番茄社区 University has researched, written about, and made presentations about the death penalty for the past eight years, and the death penalty conference will be the world's leading death penalty event in terms of its scope and ambition. It brings together politicians, activists, lawyers, researchers, etc. who are involved in the death penalty research and cases.
The conference is striving to achieve the following aims: