Conference Program
Session 1: Reform and Political Context
Chair: Orna Alyagon Darr, Sapir College Law School, opening remarks
Discussant: Rawia Aburabia, Sapir College Law School
Erin Braatz, Suffolk University Law School
The Omanhene’s Prison:Globalization and Indirect Rule
Jyoti Bhosale, Jawaharlal Nehru University
The Politics of Prison Reforms and the British Colonial Imperative: Debates on Prison Labour in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Session 2: Focusing on the Body
Chair: Clare Anderson, Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies, The University of Leicester
Discussant: Ruth Ginio, Department of History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Rachna Singh, Modern History at Hindu College, University of Delhi From Freedom to Un-Freedom: Money Allowances and the Feeding of Prisoners in the British Indian Jail in the Early Nineteenth Century
Romain Tiquet, Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin)/CNRS
KKoutal Keur Malick Ndiaye: A (Post)Colonial History of Carceral Place in Senegal (1930s–1970s)
Rotem Giladi, University of Roehampton Law School/Jacob Robinson Institute, Hebrew University
Flogging, Empire, and the National Home: A History of Corporal Punishment in Mandatory Palestine
Session 3: Colonial Legacies in Postcolonial Contexts
Chair: Hadar Aviram, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco and Graduate Theological Union
Discussant: Ashley Rubin, Department of Sociology, University of Hawaii at Mānoa
Orna Alyagon Darr, Sapir College Law School
The Girls’ Home in Mandate Palestine: Intersecting Age- and Gender-based Classifications
Maya Rozenfeld, The Hebrew University
Unveiling Legal Mobilization Disputes in Prison: A Comprehensive Analysis of Prisoners’ Petitions in Israeli Courts
Faina Milman-Sivan & Yair Sagy, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa The Post-Colonized View on Colonial Prison Labor:Mandatory/Israeli Vistas on Prison Labor