ALEX S. VITALE, PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY BROOKLYN COLLEGE
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Past Appearances


2022


November 25, Goldsmiths University, London, UK 4PM BST*September 23, LINC-UP, Grand Rapids, MI
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November 23, London Southbank University, 1:15 PM BST*

November 16-19, American Society of Criminology, Atlanta*

November 8, Social Innovation Program, Sequoyah School, Pasadena, CA. 

November 5, Public Security in the 2023 Spanish Elections, Barcelona

September 22,   Detroit Justice Center*

August 25, ACLU-Delaware, Wilmington
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July 14, Livraria Tigre de Papel Lisbon 6:30PM (local time)*

July 13-14, Law and Society Assoc., Lisbon*

July 9, Manresa, Catalunya*

July 8,  Palace of the Parliament of Catalonia, Barcelona, 10-11 AM (local time)*

July 7, Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, 6:30PM (local time)*

July 6, Traficantes de Sueños, Madrid, 7PM (local time)*

​June 18, People for the American Way, Atlanta*

May 24, CUNY Graduate Center, 6PM*

​May 19, The Word is Change Bookstore, Brooklyn, 7 PM*

May 18, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, 7:30 AM

May 12, Johns Hopkins Univ. Noon

May 5, Cambridge University, 1:30 PM

April 14, Cancel The Contract, Lancaster, CA, 7-9PM*


March 31, Brooklyn Law School*

March 17, Community Conversation on Criminal Justice and Immigration, Makers and Finders, Las Vegas* 

March 17, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Las Vegas*

March 3, National Lawyers Guild, University of Oregon Law School*

February 24, Abolition Imagination Sessions 7PM

February 13, Art Directors Guild

​February 10,   A Conversation w Jason Sole, People's Forum, NYC, 7 PM

February 3, University of Chicago, 5 PM

January 28, UCLA Law School 5 PM

2021

February 11, "Policing and the Rule of Law" Drew University, 6:30 PM

February 16, "From Terry v. Ohio to Eric Garner: A Feminist Critique of Stop and Frisk." Howard University School of Law. 12:30 PM

February 17, "Abolition: From Theory to Practice." Gallatin School, NYU, 5 PM

February 18, "Defund and Reinvest Townhall," VOCAL-NY, 5:30 PM

February 27, International Law Symposium, Emory University, 10 AM

March 5, "Guggenheim Symposium" John Jay College. 2 PM

March 8, Not for Men Only Book Club. Quail Ridge Books 7 PM

March 9, "Ending Police Surveillance in Maine?" University of Southern Maine. 4 PM.

March 15, "Rethinking Policing in the 21st Cent." Columbia University 6:10 PM. 
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March 18, "A Role for Social Work in the Police Abolition Movement." Adelphi University, 6:30 PM

March 25, Defunding APD, Refunding Communities, 
Atlanta. 7 PM 

March 26,"No Justice, No Peace: Finding Justice in American Policing," Indiana University McKinney School of Law. 12:20 PM.

April 1, Philosophical Society, Trinity College, Dublin. 1PM

April 6, University of Illinois. 4:30 PM

April 9, "
America! This is the Policing You Built, Now What?" Colorado Univ. 1 PM

April 15, Keynote Address, Imagining Abolition: Beyond Prisons, Wars, and Borders. 3:30 PM


April 16, "Alternatives to the Police," Zentrum Marc Blanche, Berlin. 


September 27, Cancel the Contract, Antelope Valley, CA 

September 30, University of Castilla La Mancha

October 1,  “New Directions in the Study of Global Police Power,” 
Middlebury College

October 13, National Nurses United

October 14, Lehman College, 11 AM

October 19, 
Cancel the Contract, Antelope Valley, CA*

October 20, Claremont McKenna College*

October 22, Villanova Law School*

October 29, One Day University

November 1, Professional Staff Congress

November 2, Berkeley Carroll School

November 10, The City, 1 PM*

​November 11, COVID and it's Afterlives, NYU, 7 PM

​December 2, London Southbank University

December 9, Solidaridad, Chile, 5:30 PM


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2020


August 3, "A Conversation About Policing," West Virginia, Noon

August 10, Massachusetts Peace Action, 7 PM

August 18, Dear Evanston Racial Justice Book Group, 6 PM

​August 19, World Fellowship, 7PM

August 20, Black Lives Matter, JSALive, 7 PM

August 25, DSA National Political Education Call, 8 PM

August 27, Cooperative Development Institute, 2 PM


September 1, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Noon

September 2, Hofstra University, 11:30 AM

September 8, Profs and Pints. 7 PM.

September 9, Rochester Town Hall, 6PM


September 10, American Friends Service Committee, WV, 4 PM

September 16, Univ of IL, Chicago, Noon

September 16, University of Texas Law School, 1 PM

September 17, SIPA, Columbia University, 1 PM

September 23, 
Police Violence Against the People of Portland, Portland, OR. 7 PM

September 24, Network for Responsible Public Policy, 7:30 PM.

October 1, IG Live, Human Rights Watch 2 PM

October 1, Ending Policing as We Know it: Justice Activism and Change, Robert Morris University, 5 PM


October 1, Policing, Reform, Defund, or Abolish, Roosevelt House, Hunter College, 6:30 PM

October 1, Indypendent Fundraiser, 7:30 PM

October 2, Brookdale Community College, 10:30 AM

October 8, Reimagining Public Safety, Ethical Culture Society. 6:30 PM


October 8, Hampshire College, 8 PM

October 22, Essex University, UK 11 AM

October 22, "Defund the Police: Producing Community and Campus Safety without Policing." Brooklyn College, 5 PM

October 25, The Imperial Presidency and Police Power, The Goethe Institute, 2 PM

October 27, Marymount Manhattan, 2:30 PM

October 27, Long Is. League of Women Voters 7 PM

October 28, International Center for Comparative Criminology, University of Montreal, 11:30 AM

​October 29, Abolition 13/13, Columbia University. 6 PM

November 3, Red Hook Community Justice Center, 4 PM

November 5, Ministry of Justice and Security, Kingdom of the Netherlands. 10 AM

November 15, Society for Ethical Culture. 11 AM

​November 18, London Southbank University, 11:15 AM

November 18, Harvard Kennedy School, 4:30 PM

​November 20, YDSA-NYU, 7 PM

November 23, Carleton University, 4:30 PM

December 2, Narrative Medicine Rounds, Columbia University Medical Center, 5 PM

December 3, University of Leeds, 9AM

​December 4, Trinity School, 10 AM

December 10, National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators, 3 PM.  

December 16, Alternatives to Policing, SF Rising, 7 PM

December 22,
  "Social Movements and the Police," Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 9 AM

January 9, 
  “Journey to Justice” The National Civil Rights Museum, 1 - 3 PM

January 13,  
Canadian Municipal Network on Crime Prevention. 1:30 PM

January 14,  Asheville/Charlotte, NC 7PM

January 16, MLK Day: Reimagining Public Safety, Washington DC, 1-3PM


January 22, #DefundNYPD, DSA NYC, 6-8PM

January 31, The People's Revolution Book Club


August 3, "A Conversation About Policing," West Virginia, Noon
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July 30, "Reinventing Policing," University of Chicago, 10:15 AM

July 29, California State University San Bernardino, 7 PM

July 27, "Getting Free: Race and Abolition" w Beth Richie and Derecka Purnell, PRICE Center, Cornell, 1 PM

July 26, Austin Book Club 6 PM 

July 23, ACLU Alabama 7 PM

July 16, Jewish Council for Public Affairs, 2 PM
July 15, Metropole, 8 PM

July 15, Long Island Network for Change, 7 PM

July 12, North Brooklyn DSA 2PM

July 9, Resist Operation Relentless Pursuit Webinar, 1 PM

July 8 #AskReuters Twitter Chat, 2 PM

July 2, Breakfast meeting with Harris County Judge R. K. Sandhill 9 AM

July 2, Police and CUNY Teach-in. 3 PM

July 2, Huron Valley DSA 7 PM

June 26, National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, Noon.

June 26, "The Briefing" Emergency First Responders. 2 PM

June 23, Southern Poverty Law Center. 10 AM

May 28,    LSA: Resisting the Police Session. 2:15-4:15PM

May 5, University of New Haven, Hannaford Kalief Browder Lecture, 4:30-5:30PM

May 5, University of New Haven, Hannaford Kalief Browder Lecture, 4:30-5:30PM

April  10, Prison Abolition Workshop. 7 PM

April 9, Dallas DSA. 7:30 PM

April 3, Political Misfits  , 1 PM

March 5, University of Southern Maine, Hannaford Lecture Hall, 4-6PM

​Feb. 27, Harvard University School of Law, WCC 1015, 12-1


​Feb. 12, Indiana  Recovery Alliance,  Bloomington, IN
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Feb. 12, University of Indiana, Bloomington 
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Feb. 11, Indiana University Purdue University, Columbus


Feb. 1, United National International School

Jan. 30,   DSA Houston, West Alabama Ice House, 8:30 PM

Jan. 29,   Rad Tech Meet Up. Urban Justice Center, 40 Rector St. 6:30 PM
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Jan. 16, Political Policing and the FBI w Chip Gibbons and Alice Speri, People's Forum.  6:30 PM

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2019


​​Dec 10,  S.T.A.R. Early College High School, Brooklyn

​Dec. 5, St. Louis, Deaconess Center, 1000 N. Vandeventer. 6 PM

​Nov. 27, London Southbank University, London, 2:30 PM

Nov. 21-22, Social Science History Association, Chicago


Nov 16, CP-Northern California, Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library, Oakland, CA, 5-7 PM 

​Nov. 15, California College of Arts.
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Nov 14, SF State University, 7-9 PM

​Nov 13-16, American Society of Criminology, SF

​Oct 25, DSA Denver, 
St. Catejan’s Hall, 101 Lawrence Way, Denver 7-9pm

October 21, College of Staten Island, 6PM

October 12, Creating a World Beyond Policing. Portland, OR 6-9 PM

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October 11, Imagining a World Beyond Policing. Portland State University, 6-9 PM

​September 12, Congressional Black Caucus, Legislative Affairs Conference, DC

September 7, Exodus: Building a Movement to End Mass Incarceration and Mass Detention, Union Seminary. 1 PM

​August 15, Cape Cod DSA, Brewster, MA

July 17, "Reforming the DEA," Drug Policy Alliance. Washington, DC. 9-5:30.

​July 16, "Policing Gang Violence," Prison Scholars Program, Georgetown University, DC Jail. 

​July 5, Quill Books, Portland, ME. 6PM

June 18, Close the Workhouse Campaign, Deaconess Center, St. Louis, 6-8 PM

June 12, Families for Safe Streets, Transportation Alternatives, 111 John St. 2nd Floor 6 PM 

​June 3, Fireside Chat, Center for Popular Democracy, NYC 1PM

May 31, In conversation with Derecka Purnell and Thomas Harvey, The Advancement Project. Solid State Books, Washington, DC.

​May 30-May 31, Law and Society Assoc., Washington, DC


May 22, VOCAL-NY Civil Rights Town Hall. 25 4th Ave, Brooklyn, 5:30 PM

May 16, The Politics of Abolition with James Forman Jr., Andrea Ritchie, and Tiffany Caban. People's Forum, NYC 7 PM

​May 16, The Risks of Predictive Policing: Crime Fighting in the Era of Big Data. Faculty Day, Brooklyn College. 10 AM


May 7, S.T.A.R. Early College High School, Brooklyn

​May 5, Sound View Hotel, Greenport, NY 2 PM.
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April 23, The End of Policing with IWOC, Counselors not Cops, Providence Student Union, ARISE, and Black Rose Anarchist Federation, South Providence Community Library, 5:30 PM

​April 18, University of Rochester

​April 18, Rochester DSA with Nabil Hassein, 497 State St. 7 PM


April 12-13, Centering the Margins: Addressing the Implementation Gap of Critical Criminology. Eastern Michigan University. 

April 11, Detroiters Speak, Wayne State University, Detroit, 7 PM
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April 6, Policing for the Future, (NFL) Players Coalition, Miami, 10 AM


April 5, Miami DSA with Dream Defenders and (F)empower, SMASH, 2103 Coral Way, Miami, 7:30 PM 

​April 4, William Patterson University, 11 AM
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March 27, Carceral Crisis Series, NYU, 6:30 PM 

March 23, Austin DSA, IBEW Union Hall, 4:00 PM

​March 21, The Problem of Policing. San Antonio DSA, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center 7 PM. 


March 15, Building Healthy Communities, Salinas, CA.

March 14, Reclaim, Reframe: A Teach-in. Hartnell College, Salinas, CA.

​March 13, Addicted to the War on Drugs, Univ. of Penn. Law School. 

March 7, Policing Dissent. Managing Dis/Order. Crime and Justice Research Group, London Southbank University, 5 PM.

March 6, Senior Women in Policing Conf. Birmingham, UK.

March 1, Building A New America: Law, Politics and the Constitution, Civic Hall, NYC. 6:30 PM

​February 28, Addressing Youth Violence with Council Member Jumaane Williams, Brooklyn College. 6 PM.

​Feb 26, Crime/Law/Deviance Workshop, CUNY Graduate Center. Sociology Dept. 5:30 PM

February 22, Predictive Policing & the Stalker State: Hamid Khan & Alex Vitale. St. Mary's Church, Harlem 6:30 PM.

January 31, The End of Policing: Putting Abolition into Practice. w Franklin Bynum, DaSean Jones, and Tarsha Jackson. DSA Houston, The SHAPE Center, 7 PM.

January 24 The End of Policing w Zhandraka Kurti, Woodbine, Queens.

​January 18, Black and Blue w Clarence Taylor Marcia Davis, and Hawk Newsome, Gotham Center, CUNY Graduate Center, 6:30 PM. 
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Organizations:

ACLU-Alabama
ACLU-Northern California
ACLU-West Virginia
​Action St. Louis
Advancement Project
American Friends Service Committee, WV
​Building Healthy Communities, East Salians
Cancel the Contract, Antelope Valley, California

Center for Political Education
Center for Popular Democracy
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Centre for Crime and Justice Studies - UK
Cooperative Development Institute

​​CPUSA-Norcal
Critical Resistance Los Angeles
Critical Resistance NYC
Critical Resistance Portland, OR
​Critical Resistance San Francisco
Dear Evanston
Defending Rights and Dissent
Defund Atlanta Police Department
Defund San Francisco PD
Dream Defenders
​Drug Policy Alliance
​DSA Ann Arbor
DSA Austin
DSA Boston
DSA Cape Cod
​DSA Denver
DSA Houston
DSA Huron Valey
DSA Los Angeles
DSA Miami
​DSA North Brooklyn
DSA Rochester
​DSA San Antonio
DSA San Francisco
DSA Southern Maine
Electronic Frontier Foundation
​Ethical Culture Society
Families for Safe Streets

Ferguson Collaborative
Goethe Institute
Human Rights Watch -USA
Indiana Recovery Allaince
Illinois, University of
Jacksonville Progressive Coalition
​James Connolly Forum
Jewish Council for Public Affairs
Long Island Network for Change
Massachusetes Peace Action
MILPA, Salinas, CA
NAACP-LDF
National Center for Civil and Human Rights
National Nurses United
Netpol, UK
Northern Police Monitoring Project (Manchester, UK)
Players Coalition
Police Foundation-UK

Police Reform Organizing Project
​Professional Staff Congress-CUNY
​Providence Student Union
​Rad Tech, NYC
Red Hook Community Justice Center
Rise and Resist
​Senior Women in Policing, UK
Southern Poverty Law Center
VOCAL-NY
Colleges:

Adelphi University
Arizona, University of
​Bridgewater State University
Brookdale COmmunity College
Brooklyn College
California College of Arts
Canturbury Christchurch University
Carleton University
Castilla La Manch, University of, Spain
​Chicago, University of
​Claremont McKenna
College of Staten Island, CUNY
Colorado, University of
Colorado-Denver, University of
Columbia Univesity
Columbia University School of Medicine
Cornell University
​CUNY Graduate Center
Eastern Michigan State
Emory University
Essex University
Evergreen College
Georgetown University
Hampshire College
​Hartnell College
Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard University
​Harvard University Law School
Hofstra University
​Howard University School of Law
Hunter College
Illinois,
University of, Champagne-Urbana, 
Illinois, University of, ​Chicago
Indiana University, Bloomington
​Indiana University Purdue University, Columbus
International School of Brooklyn
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Johns Hopkins University
Kansas, University of
Keele University
Lehman College
London Southbank University

Manchester Metropolitan University
Marymount Manhattan
Michigan, University of
​Michigan State University
Middlebury
Missouri, University of, St. Louis
​Montreal, University of
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​New Haven, University of
NYU
North Florida, University of
Pennsylvania, University of, Law School
Princeton University
Robert Morris University
​Rochester, University of
Royal Academy of Art -The Hague
​San Francisco State
South Wales, University of
Southern Maine, University of
St. Francis College
​St. Josephs College
SUNY Old Westbury
Texas, University of, School of Law
Trinity University, Ireland
​Union Theological Seminary
United Nations International School
Villanova Law School
Vrije Universiteit (VU)
​Washington, University of
​Wayne State University
​William Patterson University
Zentrum Marc Blanche, Berlin
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