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Legacy Conference
40 Years After the Attica Uprising: Looking Back, Moving Forward
Published November 11, 2021
The conference, 40 Years After the Attica Uprising: Looking Back, Moving Forward, held September 12 and 13, 2011, was sponsored by the Â鶹´«Ã½o School of Law and The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy. Teresa A. Miller organized the conference which featured presentations by experts representing various groups of stakeholders. Now, a decade later, the 2011 event is considered a legacy conference.
Photographic Retrospective
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Event Notes
The keynote address was delivered by Brian Fischer, Commissioner of the NYS Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. The conference included six panel discussions:
- Looking Back: The Attica Uprising and Aftermath
- Prisons, Empowerment, and Resistance
- Attica, Prisons & the Media
- Prison Violence in Feminist Perspective: Gender, Sexuality, and Race
- Past Demands, Current Concerns: How Far Have We Come?
- Moving Forward: Prison Reform in an Era of Mass Incarceration and Fiscal Crisis
Film screenings included "Ghosts of Attica", among other documentaries concerning the Attica uprising.
The 2011 conference was co-sponsored, in part, by the: Erie County Reentry Task Force; UB Institute for Research on Women and Gender; UB Civic Engagement and Public Policy; and UB Humanities Institute.