Human Rights Prison

An oxymoron?
Apparently not ... The Alexander Maconochie Centre, ACT is all about recognising people as fellow human beings.

http://www.cs.act.gov.au/
http://www.abc.net.au/local/videos/2008/11/26/2430325.htm

Source: http://www.cs.act.gov.au/custodial_operations/types_of_detention/alexander_maconochie_centre

Critical Animals @ The Lock-Up

"Text Inscription, Oral Testimony and Sonic Murmurs" is the title of the panel I'm a part of on Sunday. I'm talking about the "Embodied Voice and the Posthuman Courtroom" at 12:00PM.

http://criticalanimals.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/posters-ca-sunday6.pdf

http://criticalanimals.org/

It's part of the This is Not Art Festival in Newcastle:
http://thisisnotart.org/2011/09/it-all-comes-down-to-this-tina-2011-kicks-off-tomorrow/

Virtual Courts

Stelarc - The Body is Obsolete - Contemporary Arts Media

Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology: Conference

While I'm not looking forward to getting out of bed at 4:45 AM, I am looking forward to heading on down to the Geelong waterfront for the 2011 Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Conference:

http://www.anzsoc.org/cms-conferences/post-graduate-and-early-carreer-researcher-conferences.phps