This discussion group aims to provide a collaborative space for scholars, practitioners and activists to explore and reckon with a broad range of abolitionist imaginaries and praxis.
The Discussion Group usually meets on Tuesdays with discussions taking the form of a presentation delivered by a guest speaker followed by an audience-led Q&A. For further information and receiving our term cards, please subscribe to our mailing list.
A List of Past Events:
6 February 2024 SM Rodriguez on Abolition and the Black Feminist Imagination.
5 March 2024 Adam Elliott-Cooper: We did not come alive in Britain: From Anti-colonialism to Abolition In collaboration w/ Race and Post-Colonial Geographies Series. School of Geography.
7 May 2024 Diana Volpe on Divest Borders - Reflections on Migrant Solidarity Activism on and off Campus.
21 May 2024 molly ackhurst and Ellie Whittingdale on Feminist Entanglements and the State of Stuckness: The Tensions, and Possibilities, of Abolition in Feminist Sexual Violence Work.
3 June 2024 Railda Alves and Miriam Duarte Peireira on Families Building Paths: A Talk with the Founders of the Brazilian Abolitionist Organisation AMPARAR (Associação de Amigos e Familiares de Presos/ Association of Prisoners’ Family Members and Friends). You can watch the recording here.
15 October 2024 Lisa Monchalin on Dismantling Colonial Punishment: Toward Indigenous Justice Solutions.
11 February 2025 Camila Pelsinger on Abolition Feminism and Theorizing Transformative Accountability.
11 March 2025 Hope Chilokoa-Mullen and 4FRONT on Decriminalising youth: Reframing "safety" for racialised young people.
20 May 2025 Shaïn Morisse on the co-authored book 'Brick by Brick by Brick, Wall by Wall: A History of Penal Abolitionism'.
17 June 2025 Lorena Burbano (Mujeres de Frente) and Silvana Tapia Tapia on Anti-carceral feminisms in Ecuador: toward a non-penal feminist justice.
3 November 2025 Basil Farraj on Carceral Violence and Prisoners' Resistance: The History of Palestinian Political Prisoners.
24 November 2025 Sarah Lamble on Practicing Everyday Abolition in the context of Britain’s Culture Wars
2 December 2025 S.M. Rodriguez on Haunting the Criminological Imagination: Abolition as Diasporicised Method. In collaboration with the Southernising Criminology Discussion Group.
