Date/Time
Date(s) - April 23, 2022
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Location
Grey Rock Room, Lory Student Center

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We are happy to host the CSU Sociology chapter’s Alpha Kappa Delta Induction Ceremony in-person and on Zoom this year! Email Carmen for the Zoom link.

2021-2022 Initiates:
Cliona Johnson
Samantha McCann
Ali Owens
Fatima Prieto
Becky Schamp
Madelaine Weekley

Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Prabha Unnithan, Professor of Sociology

“Black Lives Matter and Police Reform: Global Echoes of an American Social Movement”

Prabha Unnithan has been with the Department of Sociology at Colorado State University since 1987 and was named a John N. Stern Distinguished Professor by the College of Liberal Arts in 2019. He was previously President of the Western Social Science Association and President of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Unnithan has served as Editor or Co-Editor of three major social science journals. He received the G.O.W. Mueller Award in 2022 for contributions to international criminology.

The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement began in the U.S. and was primarily focused on protesting police excesses and agitating for reform of law enforcement practices. The movement’s antecedents are rooted in slavery, segregation, and discrimination against African Americans. The philosophy and tactics of the BLM movement have been adopted and adapted by groups in many other countries. Unnithan surveys BLM-inspired movements in twelve countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, India, Italy, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Nigeria, and the United Kingdom. He discusses these efforts in terms of their successes in reforming the police, if any, and focus on related questions pertaining to democracy, the criminal justice system, and the plight of subjugated groups.